Program dates: January 15, 2025, to June 10, 2025
The CVPR 2025 Photorealistic Avatar Challenge is intended to stimulate research in the field of photorealistic avatars. The challenge provides a test set and methodology to subjectively evaluate photorealistic avatars for news anchor and telecommunication scenarios. The evaluation task is audio/video driven self-reenactment. Test subjects will be sitting or standing but only the upper half of the body is rendered for tracks 1 and 2; track 3 will have head-only video. Speech, facial emotions, head turning, and hand gestures sequences are included. The inputs to the challenge are enrollment and test video clips. The output are self-reenactment video clips which we will evaluate with our subjective test framework and are used as the challenge metric.
Challenge tracks
There are three challenge tracks:
- Half-body real-time
- Half-body non-real-time
- Head-only non-real-time – NEW!
Registration procedure
Registration is open! To register for the challenge, participants are required to email the CVPR Photorealistic Avatar Challenge organizers avatar_challenge@microsoft.com with the name of their team members, emails, affiliations, team name, track(s) participating in, team captain, and tentative paper title. Participants also need to register on the Challenge CMT (opens in new tab) site where they can submit the enhanced clips. Registration data is captured and stored in the US.
Submission instructions
Please use Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (opens in new tab) for submitting the results. After logging in, complete the following steps to submit the results
- Choose “Create new submission” in the Author Console.
- Enter the title, abstract, and co-authors, and upload a lastname.txt file (can be empty or contain additional information regarding the submission).
- Compress the enhanced results files to a single lastname.zip file, retaining the same folder and file names as the blind test set (max file size: 1.8 GB).
- After creating the submission, return to the “Author Console” (by clicking on “Submissions” at the top of the page) and upload the lastname.zip file via “Upload Supplementary Material”.
Contact us: For questions, please contact avatar_challenge@microsoft.com
Sample images from some of the clips in the test set (tracks 1 and 2)
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Sample image from some of the clips in the test set (track 3)
