Dimitar Dinev

About Me

I am research engineer at Pipio, where I work on generative AI for human-centric video editing. I am interested in diffusion transformers, neural rendering, and general computer graphics. Previously, I graduated with a PhD from the School of Computing at the University of Utah, where I focused on physics-based animation. Before that, I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Columbia University.

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

PhD Thesis

Research

	EditYourself: Audio-Driven Generation and Manipulation of Talking Head Videos with Diffusion Transformers John Flynn, Wolfgang Paier, Dimitar Dinev, Sam Nhut Nguyen, Hayk Poghosyan, Manuel Toribio, Sandipan Banerjee, Guy Gafni
	Synthesizing Photorealistic Virtual Humans Through Cross-modal Disentanglement Siddarth Ravichandran, Ondřej Texler, Dimitar Dinev, Hyun Jae Kang IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2023
	Solving for Muscle Blending Using Data Dimitar Dinev, Wenxian Guo, Petr Kadleček, Ladislav Kavan Computers & Graphics, 2020
	User-Guided Lip Correction for Facial Performance Capture Dimitar Dinev, Thabo Beeler, Derek Bradley, Moritz Bacher, Hongyi Xu, Ladislav Kavan Symposium on Computer Animation, 2018
	FEPR: Fast Energy Projection for Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Objects Dimitar Dinev*, Tiantian Liu*, Jing Li, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Ladislav Kavan ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(4) [Presented at SIGGRAPH], 2018 (*joint first authors)
	Stabilizing Integrators for Real-Time Physics Dimitar Dinev, Tiantian Liu, Ladislav Kavan ACM Transactions on Graphics 37(1)

Teaching

I was TA for the following course at the University of Utah: