I am Eduardo Alvarado am an AI Researcher work at MPI for Informatics research on avatars and motion love game-dev am creating Roboonaut work on Physical AI
Postdoc in Virtual Avatars and Human Motion
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
I do AI to bring next-gen virtual humans.
Publications
SOMA: From Surface Observations to Muscle Anatomy
ECCV 2026
Eduardo Alvarado, Emily Kim, Gerrit Nolte, Friedemann Runte, Mario Botsch, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt
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SoleSense: Insole-guided Stability for Diffusion-driven Humanoids
(under review)
Sidharth Suresh Nair, Eduardo Alvarado, Christian Theobalt
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Towards Real-World Wearable Motion Reconstruction
ECCV 2026
Andrea Boscolo Camiletto, Rishabh Dabral, Eduardo Alvarado, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt
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Step2Motion: Locomotion Reconstruction from Pressure Sensing Insoles
Eurographics 2026
Jose Luis Ponton, Eduardo Alvarado, Lin Geng Foo, Nuria Pelechano, Carlos Andujar, Marc Habermann
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FRAME: Floor-aligned Representation for Avatar Motion from Egocentric Video
CVPR 2025
Andrea Boscolo Camiletto, Jian Wang, Eduardo Alvarado, Rishabh Dabral, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt
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BimArt: A Unified Approach for the Synthesis of 3D Bimanual Interactions with Articulated Objects
CVPR 2025
Wanyue Zhang, Rishabh Dabral, Vladislav Golyanik, Vasileios Choutas, Eduardo Alvarado, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt
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TRAIL: Simulating the Impact of Human Locomotion on Natural Landscapes
Computer Graphics International (CGI), 2024
Eduardo Alvarado, Oscar Argudo, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani, Nuria Pelechano
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How Much Do We Pay Attention? A Comparative Study of User Gaze and Synthetic Vision during Navigation
Motion, Interactions and Games (MIG), 2023
Julia Melgare, Guido Mainardi, Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani, Soraia Musse
Generating Upper-Body Motion for Real-Time Characters Making their Way through Dynamic Environments
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics SCA, 2022 🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
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Real-Time Locomotion on Soft Grounds with Dynamic Footprints
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Frontiers, 2022
Eduardo Alvarado, Chloé Paliard, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani
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A Survey on Reinforcement Learning Methods in Character Animation
Eurographics 2022
Ariel Kwiatkowski, Eduardo Alvarado, Vicky Kalogeiton, Karen Liu, Julien Pettré, Michiel van de Panne, Marie-Paule Cani.
Soft Walks: Real-Time, Two-Ways Interaction between a Character and Loose Grounds
Eurographics 2021
Chloé Paliard, Eduardo Alvarado, Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani.
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