Enric Corona

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Email: enriccorona@google.com

Zurich, Switzerland

About me

I am a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, working on Digital Humans and Generative AI. Previously, I completed my PhD at IRI-UPC under the supervision of Francesc Moreno-Noguer and Guillem Alenyà. During my PhD, I interned at Google Research with Thiemo Alldieck and Mihai Zanfir in 2022 and at Meta with Lingni Ma in 2021. I have also been a visitor at Naver Labs Europe with Grégory Rogez. Before starting my PhD, I visited Sanja Fidler at University of Toronto in 2017 and worked as a data scientist in IntelliSense.io.

My research is in areas of computer vision and machine learning, including modelling and reconstruction of 3D human bodies and hands.

Publications

VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis

Enric Corona, Andrei Zanfir, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Nikos Kolotouros, Thiemo Alldieck and Cristian Sminchisescu

in arXiv

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@inproceedings{corona2024vlogger,
    Author = {Corona, Enric and Zanfir, Andrei and Gabriel Bazavan, Eduard and Kolotouros, Nikos and Alldieck, Thiemo and Sminchisescu, Cristian}
    Title = {VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis},
    Year = {2024},
    booktitle = {arXiv},
}

DiffHuman: Probabilistic Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction of Humans

Akash Sengupta, Thiemo Alldieck, Nikos Kolotouros, Enric Corona, Andrei Zanfir and Cristian Sminchisescu

in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

Project Page    Paper    Video    Bibtex

@inproceedings{
          sengupta2024diffhuman,
          author = {Sengupta, Akash and Alldieck, Thiemo and Kolotouros, Nikos and Corona, Enric and Zanfir, Andrei and Sminchisescu, Cristian},
          title = {{DiffHuman: Probabilistic Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction of Humans}},
          booktitle = {CVPR},
          month = {June},
          year = {2024}
        }

Structured 3D Features for Reconstructing Relightable and Animatable Avatars

Enric Corona, Mihai Zanfir, Thiemo Alldieck, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Andrei Zanfir and Cristian Sminchisescu

in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023

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@inproceedings{corona2023s3f,
    Author = {Corona, Enric and Zanfir, Mihai and Alldieck, Thiemo and Gabriel Bazavan, Eduard and Zanfir, Andrei and Sminchisescu, Cristian}
    Title = {Structured 3D Features for Reconstructing Relightable and Animatable Avatars},
    Year = {2023},
    booktitle = {CVPR},
}

Learned Vertex Descent: A New Direction for 3D Human Model Fitting

Enric Corona, Gerard Pons-Moll, Guillem Alenyà, Francesc Moreno-Noguer

in Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022

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@inproceedings{corona2022lvd,
    Author = {Corona, Enric and Pons-Moll, Gerard and Alenyà, Guillem and Moreno-Noguer, Francesc}
    Title = {Learned Vertex Descent: A New Direction for 3D Human Model Fitting},
    Year = {2022},
    booktitle = {ECCV},
}

LISA: Learning Implicit Shape and Appearance of Hands

Enric Corona, Tomas Hodan, Minh Vo, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Chris Sweeney, Richard Newcombe, Lingni Ma

in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

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@inproceedings{corona2022lisa,
    Author = {Corona, Enric and Hodan, Tomas and Vo, Minh and Moreno-Noguer, Francesc and Sweeney, Chris and Newcombe, Richard and Ma, Lingni}
    Title = {LISA: Learning Implicit Shape and Appearance of Hands},
    Year = {2022},
    booktitle = {CVPR},
}

SMPLicit: Topology-aware Generative Model for Clothed People

E. Corona, A. Pumarola, G. Alenyà, G. Pons-Moll, F. Moreno-Noguer

in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

Project Page       Paper      SMPLicit code    Fitting SMPLicit        Bibtex

@inproceedings{corona2021smplicit,
    Author = {Enric Corona and Albert Pumarola and Guillem Aleny{\`a} and Pons-Moll, Gerard and Moreno-Noguer, Francesc},
    Title = {SMPLicit: Topology-aware Generative Model for Clothed People},
    Year = {2021},
    booktitle = {CVPR},
}

D-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Dynamic Scenes

A.Pumarola, E. Corona, G. Pons-Moll, F. Moreno-Noguer

in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

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@article{pumarola2020d,
  title={{D-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Dynamic Scenes}},
  author={Pumarola, Albert and Corona, Enric and Pons-Moll, Gerard and Moreno-Noguer, Francesc},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.13961},
  year={2020}
}

GanHand: Predicting Human Grasp Affordances in Multi-Object Scenes

E. Corona, A. Pumarola, G. Alenyà, F. Moreno-Noguer; G. Rogez

in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 (Oral)

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@inproceedings{corona2020ganhand,
    Author = {Enric Corona and Albert Pumarola and Guillem Aleny{\`a} and Moreno-Noguer, Francesc and Rogez, Gr{\'e}gory},
    Title = {GanHand: Predicting Human Grasp Affordances in Multi-Object Scenes},
    Year = {2020},
    booktitle = {CVPR},
}

Context-aware Human Motion Prediction

E. Corona, A. Pumarola, G. Alenyà, F. Moreno-Noguer

in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

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@inproceedings{corona2020context,
    Author = {Corona, Enric and Pumarola, Albert  and Aleny{\`a}, Guillem and Moreno-Noguer, Francesc},
    Title = {Context-aware Human Motion Prediction},
    Year = {2020},
    booktitle = {CVPR},
}

Pose Estimation for Objects with Rotational Symmetry

E. Corona, K. Kundu, S. Fidler

in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS), 2018

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@inproceedings{corona2018pose,
  title={Pose Estimation for Objects with Rotational Symmetry},
  author={Corona, Enric and Kundu, Kaustav and Fidler, Sanja},
  booktitle={2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages={7215--7222},
  year={2018},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Active garment recognition and target grasping pointdetection using deep learning

E. Corona, G. Alenyà, A. Gabàs, C. Torras

in Pattern Recognition (2018)

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@article{corona2018active,
  title={Active garment recognition and target grasping point detection using deep learning},
  author={Corona, Enric and Alenya, Guillem and Gabas, Antonio and Torras, Carme},
  journal={Pattern Recognition},
  volume={74},
  pages={629--641},
  year={2018},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

Robot-aided cloth classification using depth informationand CNNs

A. Gabàs, E.Corona, G. Alenyà, C. Torras

in International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO) 2016

Project Page     Paper     Bibtex

@inproceedings{gabas2016robot,
  title={Robot-aided cloth classification using depth information and CNNs},
  author={Gabas, Antonio and Corona, Enric and Aleny{\`a}, Guillem and Torras, Carme},
  booktitle={International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects},
  pages={16--23},
  year={2016},
  organization={Springer}
}

Past Professional Activities

• July 2022: Intern at Google Research for 5 months, working with Thiemo Alldieck and Mihai Zanfir.
• June 2021: Intern at Reality Labs, Meta for 5 months, working with Lingni Ma.
• July 2019: Visiting Naver Labs Europe for 5 months, working with Grégory Rogez.
• January 2019: Starting PhD with Francesc Moreno-Noguer and Guillem Alenyà.
• April 2017: Visiting at University of Toronto for 9 months, working with Sanja Fidler.