Charlie Hewitt

Research Scientist

Publications

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- DAViD: Data-efficient and Accurate Vision Models from Synthetic Data
  
  Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Xiao-Xian, Antonio Criminisi, Tom Cashman, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- Nods of Agreement: Webcam-Driven Avatars Improve Meeting Outcomes and Avatar Satisfaction Over Audio-Driven or Static Avatars in All-Avatar Work Videoconferencing
  
  Fang Ma, Ju Zhang, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Torang Asadi, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Marco Gillies, Xenui Pan, Sean Rintel, Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER)
  
  CSCW 2025 | October 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- VoluMe – Authentic 3D Video Calls from Live Gaussian Splat Prediction
  
  Marti de La Gorce, Charlie Hewitt, Tibor Takacs, Robert Gerdisch, Zafiirah Hosenie, Givi Meishvili, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Antonio Criminisi
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors
  
  Jack Saunders, Charlie Hewitt, Yanan Jian, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tadas Baltrusaitis, Yiye Chen, Prof. Darren Cosker, Virginia Estellers, Nicholas Gyde, Vinay Namboodiri, Ben Lundell
  
  2025 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | January 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- Eyelid Fold Consistency in Facial Modeling
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  SIGGRAPH Asia | December 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification
  
  Givi Meishvili, James Clemoes, Charlie Hewitt, Zafiirah Hosenie, Xiao-Xian, Martin de La Gorce, Tibor Takacs, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Antonio Criminisi, Chyna McRae, Nina Jablonski, Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER)
  
  SIGGRAPH Asia | December 2024
  
  Publication DOI Video
- Look Ma, no markers: holistic performance capture without the hassle
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Lohit Petikam, Shideh Rezaeifar, Louis Florentin, Zafiirah Hosenie, Tom Cashman, Julien Valentin, Prof. Darren Cosker, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  ACM Transactions on Graphics | December 2024, Vol 36(6): pp. 235:1-235:12
  
  Publication DOI Video
- Scribble: Auto-Generated 2D Avatars with Diverse and Inclusive Art-Direction
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Shideh Rezaeifar
  
  SIGGRAPH | July 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- GeoGen: Geometry-Aware Generative Modeling via Signed Distance Functions
  
  Salvatore Esposito, Qingshan Xu, Kacper Kania, Charlie Hewitt, Octave Mariotti, Lohit Petikam, Julien Valentin, Arno Onken, Oisin Mac Aodha
  
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 Workshops | June 2024
  
  Publication
- SimpleEgo: Predicting Probabilistic Body Pose from Egocentric Cameras
  
  Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez, Charlie Hewitt, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  2024 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) | January 2024, pp. 1446-1455
  
  Publication DOI
- DigiFace-1M: 1 Million Digital Face Images for Face Recognition
  
  Gwangbin Bae, Martin de La Gorce, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Dong Chen, Julien Valentin, Roberto Cipolla, Jingjing Shen
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- Mesh-Tension Driven Expression-Based Wrinkles for Synthetic Faces
  
  Chirag Raman, Charlie Hewitt, Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- Procedural Humans for Computer Vision
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Lohit Petikam, Louis Florentin, Hanz Cuevas Velasquez
  
  MSR-TR-2023-3 | January 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Visual perception of noise in a simulated holographic display—A user study
  
  Andreas Georgiou, Joel Kollin, Charlie Hewitt, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Brian Guenter
  
  Displays | November 2022, Vol 76
  
  Publication
- 3D Face Reconstruction with Dense Landmarks
  
  Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Matthew Johnson, Jingjing Shen, Nikola Milosavljevic, Daniel Wilde, Stephan Garbin, Chirag Raman, Jamie Shotton, Toby Sharp, Ivan Stojiljkovic, Tom Cashman, Julien Valentin
  
  2022 European Conference on Computer Vision | October 2022
  
  Publication PDF
- Fake It Till You Make It: Face analysis in the wild using synthetic data alone
  
  Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Matthew Johnson, Virginia Estellers, Tom Cashman, Jamie Shotton
  
  International Conference on Computer Vision 2021 | October 2021
  
  Publication Video
- A high fidelity synthetic face framework for computer vision
  
  Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Virginia Estellers, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Matthew Johnson, Jamie Shotton
  
  MSR-TR-2020-24 | July 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication

- VoluMe – Authentic 3D Video Calls from Live Gaussian Splat Prediction
  
  Marti de La Gorce, Charlie Hewitt, Tibor Takacs, Robert Gerdisch, Zafiirah Hosenie, Givi Meishvili, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Antonio Criminisi
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- DAViD: Data-efficient and Accurate Vision Models from Synthetic Data
  
  Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Xiao-Xian, Antonio Criminisi, Tom Cashman, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors
  
  Jack Saunders, Charlie Hewitt, Yanan Jian, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tadas Baltrusaitis, Yiye Chen, Prof. Darren Cosker, Virginia Estellers, Nicholas Gyde, Vinay Namboodiri, Ben Lundell
  
  2025 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | January 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- Eyelid Fold Consistency in Facial Modeling
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  SIGGRAPH Asia | December 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification
  
  Givi Meishvili, James Clemoes, Charlie Hewitt, Zafiirah Hosenie, Xiao-Xian, Martin de La Gorce, Tibor Takacs, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Antonio Criminisi, Chyna McRae, Nina Jablonski, Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER)
  
  SIGGRAPH Asia | December 2024
  
  Publication DOI Video
- Look Ma, no markers: holistic performance capture without the hassle
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Lohit Petikam, Shideh Rezaeifar, Louis Florentin, Zafiirah Hosenie, Tom Cashman, Julien Valentin, Prof. Darren Cosker, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  ACM Transactions on Graphics | December 2024, Vol 36(6): pp. 235:1-235:12
  
  Publication DOI Video
- Scribble: Auto-Generated 2D Avatars with Diverse and Inclusive Art-Direction
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Shideh Rezaeifar
  
  SIGGRAPH | July 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- SimpleEgo: Predicting Probabilistic Body Pose from Egocentric Cameras
  
  Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez, Charlie Hewitt, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  2024 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) | January 2024, pp. 1446-1455
  
  Publication DOI
- Mesh-Tension Driven Expression-Based Wrinkles for Synthetic Faces
  
  Chirag Raman, Charlie Hewitt, Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- DigiFace-1M: 1 Million Digital Face Images for Face Recognition
  
  Gwangbin Bae, Martin de La Gorce, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Dong Chen, Julien Valentin, Roberto Cipolla, Jingjing Shen
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- Procedural Humans for Computer Vision
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Lohit Petikam, Louis Florentin, Hanz Cuevas Velasquez
  
  MSR-TR-2023-3 | January 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- 3D Face Reconstruction with Dense Landmarks
  
  Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Matthew Johnson, Jingjing Shen, Nikola Milosavljevic, Daniel Wilde, Stephan Garbin, Chirag Raman, Jamie Shotton, Toby Sharp, Ivan Stojiljkovic, Tom Cashman, Julien Valentin
  
  2022 European Conference on Computer Vision | October 2022
  
  Publication PDF
- Fake It Till You Make It: Face analysis in the wild using synthetic data alone
  
  Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Matthew Johnson, Virginia Estellers, Tom Cashman, Jamie Shotton
  
  International Conference on Computer Vision 2021 | October 2021
  
  Publication Video
- A high fidelity synthetic face framework for computer vision
  
  Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Virginia Estellers, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Matthew Johnson, Jamie Shotton
  
  MSR-TR-2020-24 | July 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- VoluMe – Authentic 3D Video Calls from Live Gaussian Splat Prediction
  
  Marti de La Gorce, Charlie Hewitt, Tibor Takacs, Robert Gerdisch, Zafiirah Hosenie, Givi Meishvili, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Antonio Criminisi
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- DAViD: Data-efficient and Accurate Vision Models from Synthetic Data
  
  Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Xiao-Xian, Antonio Criminisi, Tom Cashman, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors
  
  Jack Saunders, Charlie Hewitt, Yanan Jian, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tadas Baltrusaitis, Yiye Chen, Prof. Darren Cosker, Virginia Estellers, Nicholas Gyde, Vinay Namboodiri, Ben Lundell
  
  2025 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | January 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- Eyelid Fold Consistency in Facial Modeling
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  SIGGRAPH Asia | December 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Look Ma, no markers: holistic performance capture without the hassle
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Lohit Petikam, Shideh Rezaeifar, Louis Florentin, Zafiirah Hosenie, Tom Cashman, Julien Valentin, Prof. Darren Cosker, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  ACM Transactions on Graphics | December 2024, Vol 36(6): pp. 235:1-235:12
  
  Publication DOI Video
- Scribble: Auto-Generated 2D Avatars with Diverse and Inclusive Art-Direction
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Shideh Rezaeifar
  
  SIGGRAPH | July 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- GeoGen: Geometry-Aware Generative Modeling via Signed Distance Functions
  
  Salvatore Esposito, Qingshan Xu, Kacper Kania, Charlie Hewitt, Octave Mariotti, Lohit Petikam, Julien Valentin, Arno Onken, Oisin Mac Aodha
  
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 Workshops | June 2024
  
  Publication
- Mesh-Tension Driven Expression-Based Wrinkles for Synthetic Faces
  
  Chirag Raman, Charlie Hewitt, Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- DigiFace-1M: 1 Million Digital Face Images for Face Recognition
  
  Gwangbin Bae, Martin de La Gorce, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Dong Chen, Julien Valentin, Roberto Cipolla, Jingjing Shen
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- Procedural Humans for Computer Vision
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Lohit Petikam, Louis Florentin, Hanz Cuevas Velasquez
  
  MSR-TR-2023-3 | January 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Visual perception of noise in a simulated holographic display—A user study
  
  Andreas Georgiou, Joel Kollin, Charlie Hewitt, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Brian Guenter
  
  Displays | November 2022, Vol 76
  
  Publication
- A high fidelity synthetic face framework for computer vision
  
  Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Virginia Estellers, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Matthew Johnson, Jamie Shotton
  
  MSR-TR-2020-24 | July 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- Nods of Agreement: Webcam-Driven Avatars Improve Meeting Outcomes and Avatar Satisfaction Over Audio-Driven or Static Avatars in All-Avatar Work Videoconferencing
  
  Fang Ma, Ju Zhang, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Torang Asadi, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Marco Gillies, Xenui Pan, Sean Rintel, Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER)
  
  CSCW 2025 | October 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Nods of Agreement: Webcam-Driven Avatars Improve Meeting Outcomes and Avatar Satisfaction Over Audio-Driven or Static Avatars in All-Avatar Work Videoconferencing
  
  Fang Ma, Ju Zhang, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Torang Asadi, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Marco Gillies, Xenui Pan, Sean Rintel, Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER)
  
  CSCW 2025 | October 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Visual perception of noise in a simulated holographic display—A user study
  
  Andreas Georgiou, Joel Kollin, Charlie Hewitt, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Brian Guenter
  
  Displays | November 2022, Vol 76
  
  Publication
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication

- VoluMe – Authentic 3D Video Calls from Live Gaussian Splat Prediction
  
  Marti de La Gorce, Charlie Hewitt, Tibor Takacs, Robert Gerdisch, Zafiirah Hosenie, Givi Meishvili, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Antonio Criminisi
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- DAViD: Data-efficient and Accurate Vision Models from Synthetic Data
  
  Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Xiao-Xian, Antonio Criminisi, Tom Cashman, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  2025 International Conference on Computer Vision | October 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- Nods of Agreement: Webcam-Driven Avatars Improve Meeting Outcomes and Avatar Satisfaction Over Audio-Driven or Static Avatars in All-Avatar Work Videoconferencing
  
  Fang Ma, Ju Zhang, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda, Torang Asadi, Charlie Hewitt, Lohit Petikam, Marco Gillies, Xenui Pan, Sean Rintel, Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER)
  
  CSCW 2025 | October 2025
  
  Preprint Project
- GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors
  
  Jack Saunders, Charlie Hewitt, Yanan Jian, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tadas Baltrusaitis, Yiye Chen, Prof. Darren Cosker, Virginia Estellers, Nicholas Gyde, Vinay Namboodiri, Ben Lundell
  
  2025 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | January 2025
  
  Publication Preprint Video
- Eyelid Fold Consistency in Facial Modeling
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  SIGGRAPH Asia | December 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- Hairmony: Fairness-aware hairstyle classification
  
  Givi Meishvili, James Clemoes, Charlie Hewitt, Zafiirah Hosenie, Xiao-Xian, Martin de La Gorce, Tibor Takacs, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Antonio Criminisi, Chyna McRae, Nina Jablonski, Marta Wilczkowiak (SHE/HER)
  
  SIGGRAPH Asia | December 2024
  
  Publication DOI Video
- Scribble: Auto-Generated 2D Avatars with Diverse and Inclusive Art-Direction
  
  Lohit Petikam, Charlie Hewitt, Shideh Rezaeifar
  
  SIGGRAPH | July 2024
  
  Publication DOI
- GeoGen: Geometry-Aware Generative Modeling via Signed Distance Functions
  
  Salvatore Esposito, Qingshan Xu, Kacper Kania, Charlie Hewitt, Octave Mariotti, Lohit Petikam, Julien Valentin, Arno Onken, Oisin Mac Aodha
  
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 Workshops | June 2024
  
  Publication
- Mesh-Tension Driven Expression-Based Wrinkles for Synthetic Faces
  
  Chirag Raman, Charlie Hewitt, Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- DigiFace-1M: 1 Million Digital Face Images for Face Recognition
  
  Gwangbin Bae, Martin de La Gorce, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Dong Chen, Julien Valentin, Roberto Cipolla, Jingjing Shen
  
  Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision | January 2023
  
  Publication
- 3D Face Reconstruction with Dense Landmarks
  
  Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Matthew Johnson, Jingjing Shen, Nikola Milosavljevic, Daniel Wilde, Stephan Garbin, Chirag Raman, Jamie Shotton, Toby Sharp, Ivan Stojiljkovic, Tom Cashman, Julien Valentin
  
  2022 European Conference on Computer Vision | October 2022
  
  Publication PDF
- Fake It Till You Make It: Face analysis in the wild using synthetic data alone
  
  Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Matthew Johnson, Virginia Estellers, Tom Cashman, Jamie Shotton
  
  International Conference on Computer Vision 2021 | October 2021
  
  Publication Video
- Assessing Public Perception of Self-Driving Cars: the Autonomous Vehicle Acceptance Model
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Ioannis Politis, Theocharis Amanatidis, Advait Sarkar
  
  24th International Conference on Intelligent User interfaces (IUI 2019) | March 2019
  
  PDF DOI Publication
- Look Ma, no markers: holistic performance capture without the hassle
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Fatemeh Saleh, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Lohit Petikam, Shideh Rezaeifar, Louis Florentin, Zafiirah Hosenie, Tom Cashman, Julien Valentin, Prof. Darren Cosker, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  ACM Transactions on Graphics | December 2024, Vol 36(6): pp. 235:1-235:12
  
  Publication DOI Video
- SimpleEgo: Predicting Probabilistic Body Pose from Egocentric Cameras
  
  Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez, Charlie Hewitt, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Tadas Baltrusaitis
  
  2024 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) | January 2024, pp. 1446-1455
  
  Publication DOI
- Visual perception of noise in a simulated holographic display—A user study
  
  Andreas Georgiou, Joel Kollin, Charlie Hewitt, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Brian Guenter
  
  Displays | November 2022, Vol 76
  
  Publication
- Procedural Humans for Computer Vision
  
  Charlie Hewitt, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Lohit Petikam, Louis Florentin, Hanz Cuevas Velasquez
  
  MSR-TR-2023-3 | January 2023
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication
- A high fidelity synthetic face framework for computer vision
  
  Tadas Baltrusaitis, Erroll Wood, Virginia Estellers, Charlie Hewitt, Sebastian Dziadzio, Marek Kowalski (HE/HIM), Tom Cashman, Matthew Johnson, Jamie Shotton
  
  MSR-TR-2020-24 | July 2020
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication