Some weeks remind me why building research teams is worth it.
This week, our Tokyo AI Research Institute received great news:
multiple papers from the team have been accepted to CVPR 2026.
Huge congratulations to the researchers and students involved:
Xuangeng Chu, Ruicong Liu — for their work on joint generation of listener and speaker facial expressions.
Haiyang Liu, Yiyi Cai — for their research on natural-language-guided motion generation.
Erwin Wu, Xuangeng Chu, Haiyang Liu — together with collaborators from Tokyo Institute of Science, for their work on dialogue-driven speech–motion generation.
Zhixiang Wang, Zhenghui Huang — for their work on hybrid rendering for world models.
And special recognition to Dr. Kaipeng Zhang, whose team contributed four papers in the world model area accepted to CVPR.
Together these contributions span digital humans, motion generation, and world models — the exact research directions we set for the Tokyo institute from day one.
The Tokyo AI Research Institute operates alongside MiroMind as part of the broader research ecosystem under Shanda.
We chose Tokyo intentionally.
Japan is the global center of animation, virtual characters, and digital entertainment culture.
Our ambition is to build the AI technologies that will power the next generation of games, digital characters, and interactive worlds.
Seeing the Tokyo team’s work recognized by CVPR is an exciting milestone — but it’s only the beginning.
If you are a researcher or engineer in Japan working on digital humans, world models, graphics, generative AI, or interactive systems, we would love to connect.
Great things are just getting started.
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