Jose Luis Ponton

Jose Luis Ponton

Postdoctoral Researcher @ UPC | Ex-intern @ Meta

CVRG

Generative AI 路 Deep Learning 路 Character Animation 路 Computer Graphics 路 Robotics 路 XR/VR

Hello! I am an AI and Computer Graphics researcher and recent Ph.D. graduate from UPC Barcelona, focusing on Generative AI for character animation. I am currently a Postdoc at UPC.

My background spans academia, Big Tech, and startups. I recently developed AI-based motion stylization for the metaverse at Meta Reality Labs and built computer vision mocap pipelines for a Hyper, a Y Combinator startup.

My research is published in premier venues (SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, CHI) and widely adopted by the community鈥攆rom an open-source Motion Matching engine (500+ GitHub stars) to an educational Game Dev YouTube channel (120,000+ subscribers).

Selected Publications

Environment鈥慳ware Motion Matching

Jose Luis Ponton, Sheldon Andrews, Carlos Andujar, Nuria Pelechano

SIGGRAPH Asia'25SIGGRAPH Asia 2025ACM 路 Transactions on Graphics
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DragPoser: Motion Reconstruction from Variable Sparse Tracking Signals via Latent Space Optimization

Jose Luis Ponton, Eduard Pujol, Andreas Aristidou, Carlos Andujar, Nuria Pelechano

Eurographics'25Eurographics 2025Wiley 路 Computer Graphics Forum
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Stretch your reach: Studying Self-Avatar and Controller Misalignment in Virtual Reality Interaction

Jose Luis Ponton, Reza Keshavarz, Alejandro Beacco, Nuria Pelechano

CHI'24CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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SparsePoser: Real鈥憈ime Full鈥慴ody Motion Reconstruction from Sparse Data

Jose Luis Ponton, Haoran Yun, Andreas Aristidou, Carlos Andujar, Nuria Pelechano

SIGGRAPH Asia'23SIGGRAPH Asia 2023ACM 路 Transactions on Graphics
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Fitted avatars: automatic skeleton adjustment for self鈥慳vatars in virtual reality

Jose Luis Ponton, V铆ctor Ceballos, Lesly Acosta, Alejandro R铆os, Eva Moncl煤s, Nuria Pelechano

2023Springer 路 Virtual Reality
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Combining Motion Matching and Orientation Prediction to Animate Avatars for Consumer鈥慓rade VR

Jose Luis Ponton, Haoran Yun, Carlos Andujar, Nuria Pelechano

SCA'22THE 21ST ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ANIMATION (SCA 2022)Wiley 路 Computer Graphics Forum
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