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Synthetic humans: from SURREAL to BEDLAM
From SURREAL (6.5M frames) to BEDLAM, Michael Black’s line of work shows when synthetic humans match real data, when they don’t, and what’s missing.
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From SURREAL (6.5M frames) to BEDLAM, Michael Black’s line of work shows when synthetic humans match real data, when they don’t, and what’s missing.