Thanks, I think this deserves an HN post of its own. Some of the things that were done to entice Sadeghi to join sends shivers down my spine.

Edit: I've been looking at the details on the rear view of some of the "Single-View Reconstruction" examples, and I'm starting to worry that this may actually not be reproducible.

I have followed this case since the beginning. I am surprised how the academic community (who's fully aware of this case) continues reviewing his work without questioning work ethics as though nothing happened. TLDR:

Dr. Iman Sadeghi is the man behind hair rendering tech for Disney and Dreamworks. He left his job at Google to join Hao Li's company Pinscreen (which by the way is funded by big names like Softbank).

When Sadeghi saw red flags inside the company, he raised the issue from within, and finally wanted out. While he was leaving one day, Li and his colleagues legit assaulted (violently) Sadeghi to give up his company laptop. This, by the way, is recorded on CCTV cameras and can be viewed online.

The fraud case is about falsifying results in their SIGGRAPH 2017 Technical Papers submission. They claimed to generate avatar hair shapes in their paper, and when their reviewer asked them to give results on many faces, the company hired artists for as much as $100 to generate them manually for the results. Of course, they later claimed to make it fully automatic AFTER publishing the paper, but that doesn't justify the stance that they published false results in one of the biggest computer graphics conference. Hell even at that public demo, they showed pre-cached avatars and claimed them to be generated real-time.