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Text-to-video diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, yet often fail to generate temporally coherent and physically plausible motion. A key reason is the models' insufficient understanding of complex motions that natural…

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We present X-Dancer, a novel zero-shot music-driven image animation pipeline that creates diverse and long-range lifelike human dance videos from a single static image. As its core, we introduce a unified transformer-diffusion framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zeyuan Chen , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Chenxu Zhang , Xin Chen , Chao Wang , Di Chang , Linjie Luo

Human motion video generation has advanced significantly, while existing methods still struggle with accurately rendering detailed body parts like hands and faces, especially in long sequences and intricate motions. Current approaches also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Qijun Gan , Yi Ren , Chen Zhang , Zhenhui Ye , Pan Xie , Xiang Yin , Zehuan Yuan , Bingyue Peng , Jianke Zhu

In this paper, we introduce GaussianMotion, a novel human rendering model that generates fully animatable scenes aligned with textual descriptions using Gaussian Splatting. Although existing methods achieve reasonable text-to-3D generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gyumin Shim , Sangmin Lee , Jaegul Choo

Image diffusion models, trained on massive image collections, have emerged as the most versatile image generator model in terms of quality and diversity. They support inverting real images and conditional (e.g., text) generation, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Duygu Ceylan , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Niloy J. Mitra

Diffusion-based video generation techniques have significantly improved zero-shot talking-head avatar generation, enhancing the naturalness of both head motion and facial expressions. However, existing methods suffer from poor…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lingzhou Mu , Baiji Liu , Ruonan Zhang , Guiming Mo , Jiawei Jin , Kai Zhang , Haozhi Huang

Recent diffusion methods have made significant progress in generating videos from single images due to their powerful visual generation capabilities. However, challenges persist in image-to-video synthesis, particularly in human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Tiantian Wang , Chun-Han Yao , Tao Hu , Mallikarjun Byrasandra Ramalinga Reddy , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

The creation of 4D avatars (i.e., animated 3D avatars) from text description typically uses text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to synthesize 3D avatars in the canonical space and subsequently applies animation with target motions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zenghao Chai , Chen Tang , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

Creating editable videos that depict complex interactions between multiple objects in various artistic styles has long been a challenging task in filmmaking. Progress is often hampered by the scarcity of data sets that contain paired text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Anisha Jain

Recent talking avatar generation models have made strides in achieving realistic and accurate lip synchronization with the audio, but often fall short in controlling and conveying detailed expressions and emotions of the avatar, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Jianhong Bai , Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xu Sun , Jiang Bian

We present a novel approach for generating 360-degree high-quality, spatio-temporally coherent human videos from a single image. Our framework combines the strengths of diffusion transformers for capturing global correlations across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ruizhi Shao , Youxin Pang , Zerong Zheng , Jingxiang Sun , Yebin Liu

Hand-drawn character animation is a vibrant field in computer graphics, presenting challenges in achieving geometric consistency while conveying expressive motion. Traditional skeletal animation methods maintain geometric consistency but…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jie Zhou , Linzi Qu , Miu-Ling Lam , Hongbo Fu

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

Human image animation involves generating a video from a static image by following a specified pose sequence. Current approaches typically adopt a multi-stage pipeline that separately learns appearance and motion, which often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qilin Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Chengming Xu , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Xinyi Zhang , Yun Cao , Weijian Cao , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Over the past years, significant progress has been made in creating photorealistic and drivable 3D avatars solely from videos of real humans. However, a core remaining challenge is the fine-grained and user-friendly editing of clothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Basavaraj Sunagad , Heming Zhu , Mohit Mendiratta , Adam Kortylewski , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Text-to-image models (T2I) such as StableDiffusion have been used to generate high quality images of people. However, due to the random nature of the generation process, the person has a different appearance e.g. pose, face, and clothing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Soon Yau Cheong , Armin Mustafa , Andrew Gilbert

Animating a still image offers an engaging visual experience. Traditional image animation techniques mainly focus on animating natural scenes with stochastic dynamics (e.g. clouds and fluid) or domain-specific motions (e.g. human hair or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yong Zhang , Haoxin Chen , Wangbo Yu , Hanyuan Liu , Xintao Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong , Ying Shan

Learning directly from human demonstration videos is a key milestone toward scalable and generalizable robot learning. Yet existing methods rely on intermediate representations such as keypoints or trajectories, introducing information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yiren Song , Cheng Liu , Weijia Mao , Mike Zheng Shou

Image animation has seen significant progress, driven by the powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models. However, maintaining appearance consistency with static input images and mitigating abrupt motion transitions in generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xin Ma , Yaohui Wang , Genyun Jia , Xinyuan Chen , Tien-Tsin Wong , Cunjian Chen

Text-driven person image generation is an emerging and challenging task in cross-modality image generation. Controllable person image generation promotes a wide range of applications such as digital human interaction and virtual try-on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Kaiduo Zhang , Muyi Sun , Jianxin Sun , Binghao Zhao , Kunbo Zhang , Zhenan Sun , Tieniu Tan