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Sophia-in-Audition: Virtual Production with a Robot Performer
Taotao Zhou, Teng Xu, Dong Zhang, Yuyang Jiao, Peijun Xu, Yaoyu He, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06978

Sophia-in-Audition: Virtual Production with a Robot Performer
We present Sophia-in-Audition (SiA), a new frontier in virtual production, by employing the humanoid robot Sophia within an UltraStage environment composed of a controllable lighting dome coupled with multiple cameras. We demonstrate Sophia's capability to replicate iconic film segments, follow real performers, and perform a variety of motions and expressions, showcasing her versatility as a virtual actor. Key to this process is the integration of facial motion transfer algorithms and the Ultra…

Close Major-merger Pairs at $z=0$: Star-forming Galaxies with Pseudobulges
Chuan He, Cong Kevin Xu, Ute Lisenfeld, Y Sophia Dai, Taotao Fang, Jia-Sheng Huang, Wei Wang, Qingzheng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19212

Close Major-merger Pairs at $z=0$: Star-forming Galaxies with Pseudobulges
We present a study of star-forming galaxies (SFGs) with pseudobulges (bulges with Sérsic index $\rm n < 2$) in a local close major-merger galaxy pair sample (H-KPAIR). With data from new aperture photometries in the optical and near-infrared bands (aperture size of 7\;kpc) and from the literature, we find that the mean Age of central stellar populations in Spirals with pseudobulges is consistent with that of disky galaxies and is nearly constant against the bulge-to-total ratio (B/T). Paired S…