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Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院计算技术研究所) is positioning digital humans as both a research theme and an applied capability stack, spanning core generation and reconstruction methods (including monocular 3D human reconstruction, Gaussian-based representations for full-body digital-human rebuilding from limited reference imagery, and real-time relighting for more realistic appearance), controllable animation and expression modeling for interactive presentation, and multimodal/LLM-enabled interaction layers that connect digital-human embodiments to language and perception systems; alongside this foundational work, it has been appearing in practical deployments and collaborations such as its co-development with Aier Eye Hospital Group (爱尔眼科医院集团) of an ophthalmology-oriented “AierGPT” and an associated “Aier digital human” as a clinical-facing digital-human base for future medical applications, and it also surfaces in public demonstrations and ecosystem activities where digital humans are presented as integrated outputs alongside related enabling components like 3D reconstruction pipelines, multimodal data analysis systems, and application-oriented capability requirements and standards work.