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Character image animation, which generates high-quality videos from a reference image and target pose sequence, has seen significant progress in recent years. However, most existing methods only apply to human figures, which usually do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Zhuoxin Liu , Yan Wang , Xi Chen , Yifan Feng , Hengshuang Zhao

Prediction and interpolation for long-range video data involves the complex task of modeling motion trajectories for each visible object, occlusions and dis-occlusions, as well as appearance changes due to viewpoint and lighting. Optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kevin J. Shih , Aysegul Dundar , Animesh Garg , Robert Pottorf , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro

Real-time rendering for video games has become increasingly challenging due to the need for higher resolutions, framerates and photorealism. Supersampling has emerged as an effective solution to address this challenge. Our work introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Antoine Mercier , Ruan Erasmus , Yashesh Savani , Manik Dhingra , Fatih Porikli , Guillaume Berger

While real-world anime super-resolution (SR) has gained increasing attention in the SR community, existing methods still adopt techniques from the photorealistic domain. In this paper, we analyze the anime production workflow and rethink…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Boyang Wang , Fengyu Yang , Xihang Yu , Chao Zhang , Hanbin Zhao

Real-world infrared imagery presents unique challenges for vision-language models due to the scarcity of aligned text data and domain-specific characteristics. Although existing methods have advanced the field, their reliance on synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhe Cao , Jin Zhang , Ruiheng Zhang

Video interpolation aims to generate a non-existent intermediate frame given the past and future frames. Many state-of-the-art methods achieve promising results by estimating the optical flow between the known frames and then generating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Zhiqi Chen , Ran Wang , Haojie Liu , Yao Wang

Existing correspondence datasets for two-dimensional (2D) cartoon suffer from simple frame composition and monotonic movements, making them insufficient to simulate real animations. In this work, we present a new 2D animation visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Li Siyao , Yuhang Li , Bo Li , Chao Dong , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Video generation models internalize physical realism as their prior. Anime deliberately violates physics: smears, impact frames, chibi shifts; and its thousands of coexisting artistic conventions yield no single "physics of anime" a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tencent HY Team

Pairwise pose estimation from images with little or no overlap is an open challenge in computer vision. Existing methods, even those trained on large-scale datasets, struggle in these scenarios due to the lack of identifiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Ruojin Cai , Jason Y. Zhang , Philipp Henzler , Zhengqi Li , Noah Snavely , Ricardo Martin-Brualla

Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Video frame interpolation (VFI) offers a way to generate intermediate frames between consecutive frames of a video sequence. Although the development of advanced frame interpolation algorithms has received increased attention in recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Conall Daly , Darren Ramsook , Anil Kokaram

We study the problem of generating intermediate images from image pairs with large motion while maintaining semantic consistency. Due to the large motion, the intermediate semantic information may be absent in input images. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Liao Shen , Tianqi Liu , Huiqiang Sun , Xinyi Ye , Baopu Li , Jianming Zhang , Zhiguo Cao

Image-to-Video (I2V) generation aims to synthesize a video clip according to a given image and condition (e.g., text). The key challenge of this task lies in simultaneously generating natural motions while preserving the original appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jie Tian , Xiaoye Qu , Zhenyi Lu , Wei Wei , Sichen Liu , Yu Cheng

3D animation of humans in action is quite challenging as it involves using a huge setup with several motion trackers all over the person's body to track the movements of every limb. This is time-consuming and may cause the person discomfort…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Laxman Kumarapu , Prerana Mukherjee

This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of recent advancements in video inpainting techniques, a critical subset of computer vision and artificial intelligence. As a process that restores or fills in missing or corrupted portions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Shreyank N Gowda , Yash Thakre , Shashank Narayana Gowda , Xiaobo Jin

Decomposing a video into a layer-based representation is crucial for easy video editing for the creative industries, as it enables independent editing of specific layers. Existing video-layer decomposition models rely on implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Maria Pilligua , Danna Xue , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Pixelwise annotation of image sequences can be very tedious for humans. Interactive video object segmentation aims to utilize automatic methods to speed up the process and reduce the workload of the annotators. Most contemporary approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Viktor Varga , András Lőrincz

Video frame interpolation is a challenging task due to the ever-changing real-world scene. Previous methods often calculate the bi-directional optical flows and then predict the intermediate optical flows under the linear motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Song Wu , Kaichao You , Weihua He , Chen Yang , Yang Tian , Yaoyuan Wang , Ziyang Zhang , Jianxing Liao

We present All-Pairs Multi-Field Transforms (AMT), a new network architecture for video frame interpolation. It is based on two essential designs. First, we build bidirectional correlation volumes for all pairs of pixels, and use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zhen Li , Zuo-Liang Zhu , Ling-Hao Han , Qibin Hou , Chun-Le Guo , Ming-Ming Cheng

High-quality animated stickers usually contain transparent channels, which are often ignored by current video generation models. To generate fine-grained animated transparency channels, existing methods can be roughly divided into video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ting Zhang , Zhiqiang Yuan , Yeshuang Zhu , Jinchao Zhang