I am Eduardo Alvarado am an AI Researcher work at MPI for Informatics research on novel virtual avatars love game-dev!

Postdoc in Virtual Avatars and Human Motion

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

I do AI to bring next-gen virtual humans.

CV

2026

SOMA: From Surface Observations to Muscle Anatomy
ECCV2026
Eduardo Alvarado, Emily Kim, Gerrit Nolte, Friedemann Runte, Mario Botsch, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

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🏷 Anatomy, Avatars, Motion Reconstruction

SoleSense: Insole-guided Stability for Diffusion-driven Humanoids
Under Review
Sidharth Suresh Nair, Eduardo Alvarado, Christian Theobalt

Project Page • Paper • Code

🏷 Humanoids, GenAI

Towards Real-World Wearable Motion Reconstruction
ECCV2026
Andrea Boscolo Camiletto, Rishabh Dabral, Eduardo Alvarado, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

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🏷 Motion Capture, Wearables, GenAI, Egocentric

Step2Motion: Locomotion Reconstruction from Pressure Sensing Insoles
Eurographics2026
Jose Luis Ponton, Eduardo Alvarado, Lin Geng Foo, Nuria Pelechano, Carlos Andujar, Marc Habermann

🏷 Motion Synthesis, Wearables, GenAI

2025

FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video
CVPR2025
Andrea Boscolo Camiletto, Jian Wang, Eduardo Alvarado, Rishabh Dabral, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

🏷 Avatars, Motion Capture, GenAI, Egocentric

BimArt: A Unified Approach for the Synthesis of 3D Bimanual Interactions​ with Articulated Objects
CVPR2025
Wanyue Zhang, Rishabh Dabral, Vladislav Golyanik, Vasileios Choutas, Eduardo Alvarado, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt

🏷 Manipulation, Avatars, GenAI

2024

TRAIL: Simulating the Impact of Human Locomotion on Natural Landscapes
CGI2024
Eduardo Alvarado, Oscar Argudo, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani, Nuria Pelechano

🏷 Motion Synthesis, Simulation

2023

How Much Do We Pay Attention? A Comparative Study of User Gaze and Synthetic Vision during Navigation
MIG2023
Julia Melgare, Guido Mainardi, Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani, Soraia Musse

🏷 Gaze, Navigation

2022

Generating Upper-Body Motion for Real-Time Characters Making their Way through Dynamic Environments
SCA2022🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

🏷 Character Animation, Navigation, Physics-based Motion

Real-Time Locomotion on Soft Grounds with Dynamic Footprints
Frontiers2022
Eduardo Alvarado, Chloé Paliard, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

🏷 Motion Synthesis, Simulation, Physics-based Motion

A Survey on Reinforcement Learning Methods in Character Animation
Eurographics2022
Ariel Kwiatkowski, Eduardo Alvarado, Vicky Kalogeiton, Karen Liu, Julien Pettré, Michiel van de Panne, Marie-Paule Cani.

🏷 Reinforcement Learning, Character Animation, Physics-based Motion

2021

Soft Walks: Real-Time, Two-Ways Interaction between a Character and Loose Grounds
Eurographics2021
Chloé Paliard, Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani.

🏷 Motion Synthesis, Simulation, Physics-based Motion