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Graphs are a useful abstraction of image content. Not only can graphs represent details about individual objects in a scene but they can capture the interactions between pairs of objects. We present a method for training a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Alejandro Newell , Jia Deng

Synthesizing human motions in 3D environments, particularly those with complex activities such as locomotion, hand-reaching, and human-object interaction, presents substantial demands for user-defined waypoints and stage transitions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nan Jiang , Zimo He , Zi Wang , Hongjie Li , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang , Yixin Zhu

Existing video generation models predominantly emphasize appearance fidelity while exhibiting limited ability to synthesize complex human motions, such as whole-body movements, long-range dynamics, and fine-grained human-environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haoyu Wang , Hao Tang , Donglin Di , Zhilu Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Feng Gao , Siwei Ma , Shiliang Zhang

Accurate video understanding involves reasoning about the relationships between actors, objects and their environment, often over long temporal intervals. In this paper, we propose a message passing graph neural network that explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Cordelia Schmid

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to convert given speech audio to a photo-realistic speaking video of a specific person, where the output video has synchronized, realistic, and expressive rich body dynamics. We achieve this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Miao Liao , Sibo Zhang , Peng Wang , Hao Zhu , Xinxin Zuo , Ruigang Yang

Human actions are typically of combinatorial structures or patterns, i.e., subjects, objects, plus spatio-temporal interactions in between. Discovering such structures is therefore a rewarding way to reason about the dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Dong Li , Zhaofan Qiu , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Houqiang Li , Tao Mei

We introduce the GANformer2 model, an iterative object-oriented transformer, explored for the task of generative modeling. The network incorporates strong and explicit structural priors, to reflect the compositional nature of visual scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Drew A. Hudson , C. Lawrence Zitnick

This paper introduces Click to Move (C2M), a novel framework for video generation where the user can control the motion of the synthesized video through mouse clicks specifying simple object trajectories of the key objects in the scene. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Pierfrancesco Ardino , Marco De Nadai , Bruno Lepri , Elisa Ricci , Stéphane Lathuilière

We propose a step-by-step video-to-audio (V2A) generation method for finer controllability over the generation process and more realistic audio synthesis. Inspired by traditional Foley workflows, our approach aims to comprehensively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Akio Hayakawa , Masato Ishii , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

Due to the emergence of Generative Adversarial Networks, video synthesis has witnessed exceptional breakthroughs. However, existing methods lack a proper representation to explicitly control the dynamics in videos. Human pose, on the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Ceyuan Yang , Zhe Wang , Xinge Zhu , Chen Huang , Jianping Shi , Dahua Lin

We introduce a novel pipeline for joint audio-visual editing that enhances the coherence between edited video and its accompanying audio. Our approach first applies state-of-the-art video editing techniques to produce the target video, then…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Masato Ishii , Akio Hayakawa , Takashi Shibuya , Yuki Mitsufuji

This paper proposes the novel task of video generation conditioned on a SINGLE semantic label map, which provides a good balance between flexibility and quality in the generation process. Different from typical end-to-end approaches, which…

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With the rapid development of the Internet, users have increasingly higher expectations for the recommendation accuracy of online content consumption platforms. However, short videos often contain diverse segments, and users may not hold…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Wenhao Li , Zihan Lin , Zhengxiao Guo , Jie Zhou , Shukai Liu , Yongqi Liu , Chuan Luo , Chaoyi Ma , Ruiming Tang , Han Li

Advances in technology have led to the development of methods that can create desired visual multimedia. In particular, image generation using deep learning has been extensively studied across diverse fields. In comparison, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Doyeon Kim , Donggyu Joo , Junmo Kim

We present a general framework for compositional action recognition -- i.e. action recognition where the labels are composed out of simpler components such as subjects, atomic-actions and objects. The main challenge in compositional action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Tae Soo Kim , Gregory D. Hager

In this paper, we study video synthesis with emphasis on simplifying the generation conditions. Most existing video synthesis models or datasets are designed to address complex motions of a single object, lacking the ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yang Wu , Zhibin Liu , Hefeng Wu , Liang Lin

We present I2V3D, a novel framework for animating static images into dynamic videos with precise 3D control, leveraging the strengths of both 3D geometry guidance and advanced generative models. Our approach combines the precision of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhiyuan Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Data replay is a successful incremental learning technique for images. It prevents catastrophic forgetting by keeping a reservoir of previous data, original or synthesized, to ensure the model retains past knowledge while adapting to novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Guodong Ding , Hans Golong , Angela Yao

The rapid progress of image-to-video (I2V) generation models has introduced significant risks by enabling deceptive or malicious video synthesis from a single image. Prior defenses such as I2VGuard attempt to immunize images by inducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rohit Chowdhury , Aniruddha Bala , Rohan Jaiswal , Siddharth Roheda