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Recent advances in text-to-image generation with diffusion models present transformative capabilities in image quality. However, user controllability of the generated image, and fast adaptation to new tasks still remains an open challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Omer Bar-Tal , Lior Yariv , Yaron Lipman , Tali Dekel

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Diffusion Handles is a novel approach to enabling 3D object edits on diffusion images. We accomplish these edits using existing pre-trained diffusion models, and 2D image depth estimation, without any fine-tuning or 3D object retrieval. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Karran Pandey , Paul Guerrero , Matheus Gadelha , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Karan Singh , Niloy Mitra

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality image generation and editing, but guiding these models to produce specific outputs remains a challenge. Conventional approaches rely on conditioning mechanisms, such as text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nithesh Chandher Karthikeyan , Jonas Unger , Gabriel Eilertsen

Hand motion plays a central role in human interaction, yet modeling realistic 4D hand motion (i.e., 3D hand pose sequences over time) remains challenging. Research in this area is typically divided into two tasks: (1) Estimation approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhihao Sun , Tong Wu , Ruirui Tu , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu

Generating high-quality whole-body human object interaction motion sequences is becoming increasingly important in various fields such as animation, VR/AR, and robotics. The main challenge of this task lies in determining the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yonghao Zhang , Qiang He , Yanguang Wan , Yinda Zhang , Xiaoming Deng , Cuixia Ma , Hongan Wang

In today's age of social media and marketing, copyright issues can be a major roadblock to the free sharing of images. Generative AI models have made it possible to create high-quality images, but concerns about copyright infringement are a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Mazharul Islam Rakib , Showrin Rahman , Joyanta Jyoti Mondal , Xi Xiao , David Lewis , Alessandra Mileo , Meem Arafat Manab

Despite remarkable progress in image generation models, generating realistic hands remains a persistent challenge due to their complex articulation, varying viewpoints, and frequent occlusions. We present FoundHand, a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kefan Chen , Chaerin Min , Linguang Zhang , Shreyas Hampali , Cem Keskin , Srinath Sridhar

Although diffusion methods excel in text-to-image generation, generating accurate hand gestures remains a major challenge, resulting in severe artifacts, such as incorrect number of fingers or unnatural gestures. To enable the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qifan Fu , Xu Chen , Muhammad Asad , Shanxin Yuan , Changjae Oh , Gregory Slabaugh

We introduce a pipeline to address anatomical inaccuracies in Stable Diffusion generated hand images. The initial step involves constructing a specialized dataset, focusing on hand anomalies, to train our models effectively. A finetuned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yiqun Zhang , Zhenyue Qin , Yang Liu , Dylan Campbell

Predicting and generating human hand grasp over objects is critical for animation and robotic tasks. In this work, we focus on generating both the hand and objects in a grasp by a single diffusion model. Our proposed Joint Hand-Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jinkun Cao , Jingyuan Liu , Kris Kitani , Yi Zhou

Consistent human-centric image and video synthesis aims to generate images or videos with new poses while preserving appearance consistency with a given reference image, which is crucial for low-cost visual content creation. Recent advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mingdeng Cao , Chong Mou , Ziyang Yuan , Xintao Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Ying Shan , Yinqiang Zheng

Human body restoration plays a vital role in various applications related to the human body. Despite recent advances in general image restoration using generative models, their performance in human body restoration remains mediocre, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yiming Zhang , Zhe Wang , Xinjie Li , Yunchen Yuan , Chengsong Zhang , Xiao Sun , Zhihang Zhong , Jian Wang

Hand pose estimation from a single image has many applications. However, approaches to full 3D body pose estimation are typically trained on day-to-day activities or actions. As such, detailed hand-to-hand interactions are poorly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

Text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements in recent years, aiming to produce realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with generating anatomically accurate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Haozhuo Zhang , Bin Zhu , Yu Cao , Yanbin Hao

3D human generation is an important problem with a wide range of applications in computer vision and graphics. Despite recent progress in generative AI such as diffusion models or rendering methods like Neural Radiance Fields or Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

Existing hands datasets are largely short-range and the interaction is weak due to the self-occlusion and self-similarity of hands, which can not yet fit the need for interacting hands motion generation. To rescue the data scarcity, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Pei Lin , Sihang Xu , Hongdi Yang , Yiran Liu , Xin Chen , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

3D human pose estimation from 2D images is a challenging problem due to depth ambiguity and occlusion. Because of these challenges the task is underdetermined, where there exists multiple -- possibly infinite -- poses that are plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Francis Snelgar , Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng , Akshay Asthana

Personalized image generation, where reference images of one or more subjects are used to generate their image according to a scene description, has gathered significant interest in the community. However, such generated images suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Parul Gupta , Abhinav Dhall , Thanh-Toan Do

Recent methods using diffusion models have made significant progress in Human Image Generation (HIG) with various control signals such as pose priors. In HIG, both accurate human poses and coherent visual quality are crucial for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shibang Liu , Xuemei Xie , Guangming Shi