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Intelligent Creation team focuses on conducting cutting-edge research and development in the area of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and particularly Generative AI. We continuously transfer innovative technologies to TikTok products, and inspire TikTok users' creativity. We are looking for talents at all levels to join us on this exciting journey!

Responsibilities: •Conduct cutting-edge research and development in computer vision, generative AI and other related fields; •Transfer advanced technologies to TikTok products; •Explore new products with artificial intelligence technology at its core.

Minimum Qualifications 1. 3+ years of research and practical experience in one or more areas of computer vision, including but not limited to (preferring candidates with publications in venues such as CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, NeurIPS): - Generative models, world models, diffusion models, GAN - Image and video synthesis/manipulation/editing - Multi-modality, vision and language, generative human, neural motion synthesis - Image and video understanding, human modeling (2D and 3D pose estimation, hand pose estimation, human shape estimation) - Facial analysis 2. Highly competent in algorithms and programming; Strong coding skills in C/C++ and Python.