Apply for community grant: Academic project (gpu)

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by KumaPower - opened

The aim of our project, AvatarArtist: Open-Domain 4D Avatarization, is to transform an open-domain input portrait into a 4D digital avatar with high fidelity, temporal consistency, and expressive appearance. This is the official implementation of our CVPR 2025 paper.

Unlike previous 4D avatarization methods, AvatarArtist: Open-Domain 4D Avatarization supports diverse and stylized avatar renderings, including Lego, Ghibli-inspired, and 3D cartoon styles, enabling a new level of creativity in 4D avatar generation.

We are eager to showcase our progress to the public and provide an interactive demo for the AIGC community.

However, AvatarArtist: Open-Domain 4D Avatarization cannot run on CPU-only devices, due to the high computational demands of diffusion-based 4D generation and motion-aware rendering. GPU acceleration is required to execute the inference pipeline. Without GPU support, the system fails to run effectively, making it impossible to provide a usable demo experience.

Therefore, we would like to apply for a community GPU grant to enable public access to our system and allow users in the community to try out AvatarArtist interactively.

code: ๐Ÿ”— https://github.com/ant-research/AvatarArtist
project page: https://kumapowerliu.github.io/AvatarArtist/
model: https://huggingface.co/KumaPower/AvatarArtist
arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19906
hugging face paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2503.19906

KumaPower pinned discussion

Hi @KumaPower , we have assigned t4-medium to this Space for now as this Space was using it. But it would be great if this Space can run on ZeroGPU. Could you take a look at the docs and see if your Space can run on it?

Hi @hysts ,
Our demo is running smoothly without a GPU. You can safely switch the GPU to Zero.

Thank you very much for your generous sponsorship โ€” we really appreciate it!

@KumaPower Awesome! Thanks for migrating to ZeroGPU!

Hi @hysts ,
Thank you for the GPU sponsorship! ๐Ÿ™ I was wondering if it's possible to extend the daily GPU usage time โ€” I noticed it's currently limited to 25 minutes per day.

@KumaPower Thanks for your question. At the moment, it's simply not possible to change user quotas. Even HF staff are subject to the same quota limits.
But there might be some misunderstanding. Just to clarify, the ZeroGPU quota is assigned per user, not per Space. Logged-in users have a quota of 5 min/day, and Pro users have 25 min/day. So, it should be fine most of the time. If someone wants to go beyond their quota, they can just duplicate the Space and assign a paid GPU to it.

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