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Motions of virtual characters in movies or video games are typically generated by recording actors using motion capturing methods. Animations generated this way often need postprocessing, such as improving the periodicity of cyclic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Martin Bauer , Markus Eslitzbichler , Markus Grasmair

In this paper, we propose PixelHuman, a novel human rendering model that generates animatable human scenes from a few images of a person with unseen identity, views, and poses. Previous work have demonstrated reasonable performance in novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Gyumin Shim , Jaeseong Lee , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

We propose a novel framework to produce cartoon videos by fetching the color information from two input keyframes while following the animated motion guided by a user sketch. The key idea of the proposed approach is to estimate the dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Jing Liao , Pedro V. Sander

Automatic generation of a high-quality video from a single image remains a challenging task despite the recent advances in deep generative models. This paper proposes a method that can create a high-resolution, long-term animation using…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Yuki Endo , Yoshihiro Kanamori , Shigeru Kuriyama

Human video synthesis aims to create lifelike characters in various environments, with wide applications in VR, storytelling, and content creation. While 2D diffusion-based methods have made significant progress, they struggle to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Liyuan Cui , Xiaogang Xu , Wenqi Dong , Zesong Yang , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

Pose-guided human image animation aims to synthesize realistic videos of a reference character driven by a sequence of poses. While diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable success, most existing approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yingcheng Hu , Haowen Gong , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu , Songhua Liu

Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shen Zheng , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Xingpei Ma , Junjie Cao , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

We propose an approach to generate images of people given a desired appearance and pose. Disentangled representations of pose and appearance are necessary to handle the compound variability in the resulting generated images. Hence, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mengyao Zhai , Ruizhi Deng , Jiacheng Chen , Lei Chen , Zhiwei Deng , Greg Mori

Controllable human image animation aims to generate videos from reference images using driving videos. Due to the limited control signals provided by sparse guidance (e.g., skeleton pose), recent works have attempted to introduce additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Hongxiang Li , Yaowei Li , Yuhang Yang , Junjie Cao , Zhihong Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Long Chen

Recent advancements in human video synthesis have enabled the generation of high-quality videos through the application of stable diffusion models. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on animating solely the human element…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Mengyang Feng , Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui

Synthesizing realistic videos of humans using neural networks has been a popular alternative to the conventional graphics-based rendering pipeline due to its high efficiency. Existing works typically formulate this as an image-to-image…

This work presents a supervised learning based approach to the computer vision problem of frame interpolation. The presented technique could also be used in the cartoon animations since drawing each individual frame consumes a noticeable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Vladislav Samsonov

Pose-guided person image generation and animation aim to transform a source person image to target poses. These tasks require spatial manipulation of source data. However, Convolutional Neural Networks are limited by the lack of ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yurui Ren , Ge Li , Shan Liu , Thomas H. Li

This paper addresses the challenge of reconstructing an animatable human model from a multi-view video. Some recent works have proposed to decompose a non-rigidly deforming scene into a canonical neural radiance field and a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Sida Peng , Zhen Xu , Junting Dong , Qianqian Wang , Shangzhan Zhang , Qing Shuai , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

We present a new implicit warping framework for image animation using sets of source images through the transfer of the motion of a driving video. A single cross- modal attention layer is used to find correspondences between the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Arun Mallya , Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu

Despite recent progress, video generative models still struggle to animate static images into videos that portray delicate human actions, particularly when handling uncommon or novel actions whose training data are limited. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haoxin Li , Yingchen Yu , Qilong Wu , Hanwang Zhang , Song Bai , Boyang Li

This paper presents a novel approach for exploring diverse and expressive motions that are physically correct and interactive. The approach combining user participation in with the animation development process using crowdsourcing to remove…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Benjamin Kenwright

Diffusion-based human animation aims to animate a human character based on a source human image as well as driving signals such as a sequence of poses. Leveraging the generative capacity of diffusion model, existing approaches are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fa-Ting Hong , Zhan Xu , Haiyang Liu , Qinjie Lin , Luchuan Song , Zhixin Shu , Yang Zhou , Duygu Ceylan , Dan Xu

Conventional methods for human motion synthesis are either deterministic or struggle with the trade-off between motion diversity and motion quality. In response to these limitations, we introduce MoFusion, i.e., a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Rishabh Dabral , Muhammad Hamza Mughal , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

Upsampling videos of human activity is an interesting yet challenging task with many potential applications ranging from gaming to entertainment and sports broadcasting. The main difficulty in synthesizing video frames in this setting stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Hsuan-I Ho , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges