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In the animation industry, cartoon videos are usually produced at low frame rate since hand drawing of such frames is costly and time-consuming. Therefore, it is desirable to develop computational models that can automatically interpolate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Li Siyao , Shiyu Zhao , Weijiang Yu , Wenxiu Sun , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Image animation aims to bring static images to life according to driving videos and create engaging visual content that can be used for various purposes such as animation, entertainment, and education. Recent unsupervised methods utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hexiang Wang , Fengqi Liu , Qianyu Zhou , Ran Yi , Xin Tan , Lizhuang Ma

The objective of this paper is a neural network model that controls the pose and expression of a given face, using another face or modality (e.g. audio). This model can then be used for lightweight, sophisticated video and image editing. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Olivia Wiles , A. Sophia Koepke , Andrew Zisserman

Recent advancements in image animation have utilized diffusion models to breathe life into static images. However, existing controllable frameworks typically rely on Lagrangian motion guidance, where optical flow is estimated relative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Khoi M. Le , Cong-Duy Nguyen , Luu Anh Tuan , See-Kiong Ng , Chunyan Miao

Controllable character image animation has a wide range of applications. Although existing studies have consistently improved performance, challenges persist in the field of character image animation, particularly concerning stability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jingyun Xue , Hongfa Wang , Qi Tian , Yue Ma , Andong Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Shaobo Min , Wenzhe Zhao , Kaihao Zhang , Heung-Yeung Shum , Wei Liu , Mengyang Liu , Wenhan Luo

We present a unified controllable video generation approach AnimateAnything that facilitates precise and consistent video manipulation across various conditions, including camera trajectories, text prompts, and user motion annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Guojun Lei , Chi Wang , Hong Li , Rong Zhang , Yikai Wang , Weiwei Xu

Over the past few years, the automatic generation of facial animation for virtual characters has garnered interest among the animation research and industry communities. Recent research contributions leverage machine-learning approaches to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Eloïse Berson , Catherine Soladié , Vincent Barrielle , Nicolas Stoiber

Understanding, predicting, and generating object motions and transformations is a core problem in artificial intelligence. Modeling sequences of evolving images may provide better representations and models of motion and may ultimately be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Arnab Ghosh , Viveka Kulharia , Amitabha Mukerjee , Vinay Namboodiri , Mohit Bansal

Numerous emerging deep-learning techniques have had a substantial impact on computer graphics. Among the most promising breakthroughs are the rise of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and Gaussian Splatting (GS). NeRFs encode the object's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Georgii Stanishevskii , Jakub Steczkiewicz , Tomasz Szczepanik , Sławomir Tadeja , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

With the prosper of video diffusion models, down-stream applications like video editing have been significantly promoted without consuming much computational cost. One particular challenge in this task lies at the motion transfer process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ge Wang , Songlin Fan , Hangxu Liu , Quanjian Song , Hewei Wang , Jinfeng Xu

Despite tremendous recent progress in human video generation, generative video diffusion models still struggle to capture the dynamics and physics of human motions faithfully. In this paper, we propose a new framework for human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tao Hu , Varun Jampani

Generating visual instructions in a given context is essential for developing interactive world simulators. While prior works address this problem through either text-guided image manipulation or video prediction, these tasks are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yujiang Pu , Zhanbo Huang , Vishnu Boddeti , Yu Kong

Despite the astonishing progress in generative AI, 4D dynamic object generation remains an open challenge. With limited high-quality training data and heavy computing requirements, the combination of hallucinating unseen geometry together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Lu Sang , Zehranaz Canfes , Dongliang Cao , Riccardo Marin , Florian Bernard , Daniel Cremers

Generating human portraits is a hot topic in the image generation area, e.g. mask-to-face generation and text-to-face generation. However, these unimodal generation methods lack controllability in image generation. Controllability can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Debin Meng , Christos Tzelepis , Ioannis Patras , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

We present a versatile model, FaceAnime, for various video generation tasks from still images. Video generation from a single face image is an interesting problem and usually tackled by utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xiaoguang Tu , Yingtian Zou , Jian Zhao , Wenjie Ai , Jian Dong , Yuan Yao , Zhikang Wang , Guodong Guo , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Jiashi Feng

This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhongcong Xu , Jianfeng Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jia-Wei Liu , Chenxu Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Mike Zheng Shou

In this paper, we demonstrate a fully automatic method for converting a still image into a realistic animated looping video. We target scenes with continuous fluid motion, such as flowing water and billowing smoke. Our method relies on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Aleksander Holynski , Brian Curless , Steven M. Seitz , Richard Szeliski

Existing learning-based frame interpolation algorithms extract consecutive frames from high-speed natural videos to train the model. Compared to natural videos, cartoon videos are usually in a low frame rate. Besides, the motion between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Wang Shen , Cheng Ming , Wenbo Bao , Guangtao Zhai , Li Chen , Zhiyong Gao

While text-to-video diffusion models have made significant strides, many still face challenges in generating videos with temporal consistency. Within diffusion frameworks, guidance techniques have proven effective in enhancing output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyelin Nam , Jaemin Kim , Dohun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

We present InSpatio-WorldFM, an open-source real-time frame model for spatial intelligence. Unlike video-based world models that rely on sequential frame generation and incur substantial latency due to window-level processing,…