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. Speech, facial emotions, head turning, and hand gestures sequences are included. The input 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.

NOTE: To submit a paper for this workshop you need to participate in the challenge.

#Challenge tracks

There are two challenge tracks:

- Real-time
- Non-real-time

# 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(opens in new tab) 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.


# Timeline

- Start of challenge (release initial test set): January 15, 2025
- Release final test set: February 21, 2025
- Results submitted for evaluation: March 1, 2025
- Results of subjective evaluation: March 8, 2025
- Submit papers for review: March 15, 2025
- Results of paper review: April 1, 2025
- Workshop camera-ready submission: April 7,2025
- CVPR 2025 Photorealistic Avatar Challenge workshop: June 10, 2025

# Detail description:
Please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/photorealistic-avatar-challenge-cvpr-2025/challenge/