Yufu Wang

Researcher @ Epic Games

I am a research scientist at Epic Games, where my work focuses on human embodied intelligence — from reconstructing people to simulating them. My aspiration is to create the "operating system" that drives realistic human behavior.

I received my PhD in CS from the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Kostas Daniilidis. Prior to Epic, I spent time as a research intern at Meshcapade and Meta's Codec Avatar Lab.

Featured Work

DuoMo: Dual Motion Diffusion for World-Space Human Reconstruction

Yufu Wang, Evonne Ng, Soyong Shin, Rawal Khirodkar, Yuan Dong, Zhaoen Su, Jinhyung Park, Kris Kitani, Alexander Richard, Fabian Prada, Michael Zollhöfer

CVPR 2026

Grounding and generating humans from noisy and incomplete video observations.

[Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery

Yufu Wang, Yu Sun, Priyanka Patel, Kostas Daniilidis, Michael J. Black, Muhammed Kocabas

CVPR 2025

Grounding world-space multi-human interaction w/ transformer.

[Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

TRAM: Global Trajectory and Motion of 3D Humans

Yufu Wang, Ziyun Wang, Lingjie Liu, Kostas Daniilidis

ECCV 2024

World-space human motion from in-the-wild videos.

[Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

GART: Gaussian Articulated Template Models

Jiahui Lei, Yufu Wang, Georgios Pavlakos, Lingjie Liu, Kostas Daniilidis

CVPR 2024

Photoreal 4D humans/animals using Gaussian Splatting.

[Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

All Publications

2025

PromptHMR: Promptable Human Mesh Recovery

Yufu Wang, Yu Sun, Priyanka Patel, Kostas Daniilidis, Michael J. Black, Muhammed Kocabas

CVPR 2025 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

2025

Continuous-Time Human Motion Field from Events

Ziyun Wang, Ruijun Zhang, Zi-Yan Liu, Yufu Wang, Kostas Daniilidis

ICCV 2025 [Paper]

2025

PhysHMR: Learning Humanoid Control Policies from Vision for Physically Plausible Human Motion Reconstruction

Qiao Feng, Yiming Huang, Yufu Wang, Jiatao Gu, Lingjie Liu

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

2024

TRAM: Global Trajectory and Motion of 3D Humans

Yufu Wang, Ziyun Wang, Lingjie Liu, Kostas Daniilidis

ECCV 2024 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

2024

GART: Gaussian articulated template models

Jiahui Lei, Yufu Wang, Georgios Pavlakos, Lingjie Liu, Kostas Daniilidis

CVPR 2024 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

2023

Refit: Recurrent fitting network for 3d human recovery

Yufu Wang, Kostas Daniilidis

ICCV 2023 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

2023

Multi-view tracking, re-id, and social network analysis of a flock of visually similar birds in an outdoor aviary

Shiting Xiao*, Yufu Wang*, Ammon Perkes, Bernd Pfrommer, Marc Schmidt, Kostas Daniilidis, Marc Badger

IJCV 2023 [Paper]

2022

Semantic keypoint-based pose estimation from single RGB frames

Karl Schmeckpeper, Philip R Osteen, Yufu Wang, Georgios Pavlakos, Kenneth Chaney, Wyatt Jordan, Xiaowei Zhou, Konstantinos G Derpanis, Kostas Daniilidis

Field Robotics 2022 [Paper] [Code]

2021

Birds of a feather: Capturing avian shape models from images

Yufu Wang, Nikos Kolotouros, Kostas Daniilidis, Marc Badger

CVPR 2021 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

2020

3D Bird Reconstruction: a Dataset, Model, and Shape Recovery from a Single View

Marc Badger, Yufu Wang, Adarsh Modh, Ammon Perkes, Nikos Kolotouros, Bernd G Pfrommer, Marc F Schmidt, Kostas Daniilidis

ECCV 2020 [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]