Scholar
Ondřej Texler
Google Scholar ID: 8GxAlSUAAAAJ
GenAI Researcher at HeyGen
Citations & Impact
Citations
297
H-index
7
i10-index
6
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published over 10 papers at top venues such as CVPR and SIGGRAPH.
- - Cited over 250 times.
- - GitHub repositories with over 600 stars and 100 forks.
- - Co-invented 9 patents.
- - Created proof-of-concepts that helped raise multi-million seed round.
- - Shipped and released computer vision models and novel rendering pipelines unlocking millions of dollars in ARR.
- - Founded and led research teams, peer-reviewed tens of papers.
- - Won prizes such as the Best in Show Award at Real-Time Live SIGGRAPH and Joseph Fourier Prize.
- - Gave invited talks and interviews at SIGGRAPH Now, ECCV, and BBC News.
Research Experience
- - Internships at Adobe Research, Snap Research, and Samsung Research America, resulting in 8 publications and winning the Best in Show Award at Real-Time Live SIGGRAPH 2020.
- - Joined NEON (Samsung Research America) as a Senior Research Scientist, focusing on computer vision techniques to generate virtual humans, resulting in 9 patents and a CVPR publication.
- - Became a Founding Research Scientist at Drip.Art (rebranded as comfy.org), leading research efforts into generative AI, diffusion models, and successfully helping to raise a seed investment round.
- - Joined HeyGen as a GenAI Researcher, focusing on core avatar rendering technology.
- - Currently a Principal Research Scientist at Valka.ai, leading the core avatar research team.
Education
- PhD: Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU in Prague), Advisor: Prof. Daniel Sýkora. Research Focus: Style Transfer -- generating realistically looking paintings and animated movies.
Background
- Research Interests: Diffusion Models, Computer Vision, Generative AI, Computer Graphics. Professional Field: Computer Graphics, focusing on generating realistic content, including painterly images, stylized animated videos, and photorealistic avatars with believable and controllable motion.
Miscellany
- Personal interests not mentioned.
