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Pose-guided human image animation aims to synthesize realistic videos of a reference character driven by a sequence of poses. While diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable success, most existing approaches are limited to…

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We propose a zero-shot approach to image harmonization, aiming to overcome the reliance on large amounts of synthetic composite images in existing methods. These methods, while showing promising results, involve significant training…

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Audio to Video generation is an interesting problem that has numerous applications across industry verticals including film making, multi-media, marketing, education and others. High-quality video generation with expressive facial movements…

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Recent advancements in controllable human image generation have led to zero-shot generation using structural signals (e.g., pose, depth) or facial appearance. Yet, generating human images conditioned on multiple parts of human appearance…

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Recent advancements in camera-trajectory-guided image-to-video generation offer higher precision and better support for complex camera control compared to text-based approaches. However, they also introduce significant usability challenges,…

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Trajectory-Guided image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to synthesize videos that adhere to user-specified motion instructions. Existing methods typically rely on computationally expensive fine-tuning on scarce annotated datasets. Although…

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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 2024-12-12 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Dandan Zheng , Ruobing Zheng , Kecheng Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

Recent video editing advancements rely on accurate pose sequences to animate subjects. However, these efforts are not suitable for cross-species animation due to pose misalignment between species (for example, the poses of a cat differs…

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Custom Storyboard Generation (CSG) aims to produce high-quality, multi-character consistent storytelling. Current approaches based on static diffusion models, whether used in a one-shot manner or within multi-agent frameworks, face three…

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Image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to use the initial frame (alongside a text prompt) to create a video sequence. A grand challenge in I2V generation is to maintain visual consistency throughout the video: existing methods often struggle…

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Character image animation aims to synthesize high-fidelity videos by transferring motion from a driving sequence to a static reference image. Despite recent advancements, existing methods suffer from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

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Text-guided image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to generate a coherent video that preserves the identity of the input image and semantically aligns with the input prompt. Existing methods typically augment pretrained text-to-video (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xun Guo , Mingwu Zheng , Liang Hou , Yuan Gao , Yufan Deng , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Yufan Liu , Weiming Hu , Zhengjun Zha , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma

3D human avatar animation aims at transforming a human avatar from an arbitrary initial pose to a specified target pose using deformation algorithms. Existing approaches typically divide this task into two stages: canonical template…

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Text-editable and pose-controllable character video generation is a challenging but prevailing topic with practical applications. However, existing approaches mainly focus on single-object video generation with pose guidance, ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Beiyuan Zhang , Yue Ma , Chunlei Fu , Xinyang Song , Zhenan Sun , Ziqiang Li

Current diffusion models for human image animation often struggle to maintain identity (ID) consistency, especially when the reference image and driving video differ significantly in body size or position. We introduce StableAnimator++, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shuyuan Tu , Zhen Xing , Xintong Han , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Achieving controllable character animation that meets studio-grade standards remains challenging despite recent progress. Existing approaches can transfer motion from a driving video to a reference image, but often fail to preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wenhao Yan , Sheng Ye , Zhuoyi Yang , Jiayan Teng , ZhenHui Dong , Kairui Wen , Xiaotao Gu , Yong-Jin Liu , Jie Tang

Pose stylization, which aims to synthesize stylized content aligning with target poses, serves as a fundamental task across 2D, 3D, and video domains. In the 3D realm, prevailing approaches typically rely on a cascade pipeline: first…

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Estimating the pose of an unseen object is the goal of the challenging one-shot pose estimation task. Previous methods have heavily relied on feature matching with great success. However, these methods are often inefficient and limited by…

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