Yiming Lin
I am a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs, working on generative AI for real-time avatars and video. I help turn research ideas into products at scale; recent work includes AI-powered video translation and lip sync, creator embodiment, and real-time holograms.
Previously, I led research and development in face perception, AI fairness, and responsible AI at Realeyes, and worked on face analysis, emotion recognition, and virtual avatars at Meta AI (formerly Facebook AI).
I completed my PhD at Imperial College London under Professor Maja Pantic and remain an affiliated honorary research fellow with the iBUG group.
News
- 09/2026 Meta unveiled Hologram. I contributed to the team that brought real-time holograms to millions of users. Watch the keynote reveal and read Meta's announcements on the new VR glasses and Hologram features.
- 2026 Our paper OmniFaceRig: Fully Automatic Inner-Mouth-Aware Face Rigging Across Diverse 3D Character Topologies will appear at SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 and in ACM Transactions on Graphics.
- 2024–2025 I contributed to Meta's AI-powered dubbing and lip-synced translation project from early concepts and prototypes to its announcement at Meta Connect 2024, keynote demo, and 2025 global rollout for creators.
- 2024 Joined Meta Reality Labs as a Research Scientist, working on Generative AI and avatars.
- 03/2023 Our paper Toward Robust Facial Action Units' Detection is accepted by Proceedings of the IEEE.
- 02/2023 Our paper Self-supervised Video-centralised Transformer for Video Face Clustering is accepted by TPAMI.
- 01/2023 One paper on facial action unit detection using Transformers accepted by WACV 2023.
- 02/2022 One paper on facial age estimation accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP).
- 10/2021 Participating ICCV 2021 Doctoral Consortium (mentor Fernando De la Torre).
- 05/2021 One paper on face parsing accepted by Image and Vision Computing.
- 01/2021 Join Meta AI.
- 09/2020 Start internship at Meta AI (Facebook AI).
- 04/2020 Selected for participation in the FG2020 Doctoral Consortium.
- 02/2020 One paper on face tracking accepted by FG 2020 as an Oral presentation.
- 03/2019 Start internship at Samsung AI Center Cambridge.
- 02/2019 One paper on face tracking accepted by FG 2019 as an Oral presentation.