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We present SoftSMPL, a learning-based method to model realistic soft-tissue dynamics as a function of body shape and motion. Datasets to learn such task are scarce and expensive to generate, which makes training models prone to overfitting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Igor Santesteban , Elena Garces , Miguel A. Otaduy , Dan Casas

This paper presents a novel yet intuitive approach to unsupervised feature learning. Inspired by the human visual system, we explore whether low-level motion-based grouping cues can be used to learn an effective visual representation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Deepak Pathak , Ross Girshick , Piotr Dollár , Trevor Darrell , Bharath Hariharan

Diffusion models are capable of generating impressive images conditioned on text descriptions, and extensions of these models allow users to edit images at a relatively coarse scale. However, the ability to precisely edit the layout,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Daniel Geng , Andrew Owens

Recent work in unsupervised multi-object segmentation shows impressive results by predicting motion from a single image despite the inherent ambiguity in predicting motion without the next image. On the other hand, the set of possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Sadra Safadoust , Fatma Güney

We propose a novel method for learning convolutional neural image representations without manual supervision. We use motion cues in the form of optical flow, to supervise representations of static images. The obvious approach of training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Aravindh Mahendran , James Thewlis , Andrea Vedaldi

We introduce a novel motion estimation method, MaskFlow, that is capable of estimating accurate motion fields, even in very challenging cases with small objects, large displacements and drastic appearance changes. In addition to lower-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Aria Ahmadi , David R. Walton , Tim Atherton , Cagatay Dikici

We address unsupervised optical flow estimation for ego-centric motion. We argue that optical flow can be cast as a geometrical warping between two successive video frames and devise a deep architecture to estimate such transformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Stefano Alletto , Davide Abati , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara , Luca Rigazio

Video salient object detection (SOD) relies on motion cues to distinguish salient objects from backgrounds, but training such models is limited by scarce video datasets compared to abundant image datasets. Existing approaches that use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Sangyoun Lee

Recent advances in motion diffusion models have led to remarkable progress in diverse motion generation tasks, including text-to-motion synthesis. However, existing approaches represent motions as dense frame sequences, requiring the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jinseok Bae , Inwoo Hwang , Young Yoon Lee , Ziyu Guo , Joseph Liu , Yizhak Ben-Shabat , Young Min Kim , Mubbasir Kapadia

Due to the problem of performance constraints of unsupervised video object detection, its large-scale application is limited. In response to this pain point, we propose another excellent method to solve this problematic point. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Chao Hu , Liqiang Zhu

Unsupervised video object segmentation aims to segment a target object in the video without a ground truth mask in the initial frame. This challenging task requires extracting features for the most salient common objects within a video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Seunghoon Lee , Chaewon Park , Sangyoun Lee

In many video processing tasks, leveraging large-scale image datasets is a common strategy, as image data is more abundant and facilitates comprehensive knowledge transfer. A typical approach for simulating video from static images involves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Sangyoun Lee

Pose guided synthesis aims to generate a new image in an arbitrary target pose while preserving the appearance details from the source image. Existing approaches rely on either hard-coded spatial transformations or 3D body modeling. They…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Haitian Zheng , Lele Chen , Chenliang Xu , Jiebo Luo

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

We propose a strong baseline model for unsupervised feature learning using video data. By learning to predict missing frames or extrapolate future frames from an input video sequence, the model discovers both spatial and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-05 MarcAurelio Ranzato , Arthur Szlam , Joan Bruna , Michael Mathieu , Ronan Collobert , Sumit Chopra

We present a new method for text-driven motion transfer - synthesizing a video that complies with an input text prompt describing the target objects and scene while maintaining an input video's motion and scene layout. Prior methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Danah Yatim , Rafail Fridman , Omer Bar-Tal , Yoni Kasten , Tali Dekel

We present a novel approach for image-animation of a source image by a driving video, both depicting the same type of object. We do not assume the existence of pose models and our method is able to animate arbitrary objects without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yoav Shalev , Lior Wolf

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

Motion transfer from the driving to the source portrait remains a key challenge in the portrait animation. Current diffusion-based approaches condition only on the driving motion, which fails to capture source-to-driving correspondences and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yating Xu , Yunqi Miao , Evangelos Ververas , Jiankang Deng , Jifei Song

Styled motion in-betweening is crucial for computer animation and gaming. However, existing methods typically encode motion styles by modeling whole-body motions, often overlooking the representation of individual body parts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Minyue Dai , Ke Fan , Bin Ji , Haoran Xu , Haoyu Zhao , Junting Dong , Jingbo Wang , Bo Dai