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Human pose is a useful feature for fine-grained sports action understanding. However, pose estimators are often unreliable when run on sports video due to domain shift and factors such as motion blur and occlusions. This leads to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 James Hong , Matthew Fisher , Michaël Gharbi , Kayvon Fatahalian

Preserving first-frame identity while ensuring precise motion control is a fundamental challenge in human image animation. The Image-to-Motion Binding process of the dominant Reference-to-Video (R2V) paradigm overlooks critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiaming Zhang , Shengming Cao , Rui Li , Xiaotong Zhao , Yutao Cui , Xinglin Hou , Gangshan Wu , Haolan Chen , Yu Xu , Limin Wang , Kai Ma

We propose a novel representation of virtual humans for highly realistic real-time animation and rendering in 3D applications. We learn pose dependent appearance and geometry from highly accurate dynamic mesh sequences obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Wieland Morgenstern , Milena T. Bagdasarian , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Current diffusion models for human image animation struggle to ensure identity (ID) consistency. This paper presents StableAnimator, the first end-to-end ID-preserving video diffusion framework, which synthesizes high-quality videos without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shuyuan Tu , Zhen Xing , Xintong Han , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Rapid advances in the field of generative AI and text-to-image methods in particular have transformed the way we interact with and perceive computer-generated imagery today. In parallel, much progress has been made in 3D face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Mirela Ostrek , Justus Thies

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 video generation remains challenging due to the difficulty of jointly modeling human appearance, motion, and camera viewpoint under limited multi-view data. Existing methods often address these factors separately, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhengwentai Sun , Keru Zheng , Chenghong Li , Hongjie Liao , Xihe Yang , Heyuan Li , Yihao Zhi , Shuliang Ning , Shuguang Cui , Xiaoguang Han

Humanoid facial expression shadowing enables robots to realistically imitate human facial expressions in real time, which is critical for lifelike, facially expressive humanoid robots and affective human-robot interaction. Existing progress…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Peizhen Li , Longbing Cao , Xiao-Ming Wu , Yang Zhang

Recent video generation models have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 David Romero , Ariana Bermudez , Viacheslav Iablochnikov , Hao Li , Fabio Pizzati , Ivan Laptev

Accurate estimation of 3D human motion from monocular video requires modeling both kinematics (body motion without physical forces) and dynamics (motion with physical forces). To demonstrate this, we present SimPoE, a Simulation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Ye Yuan , Shih-En Wei , Tomas Simon , Kris Kitani , Jason Saragih

We introduce a framework that enables both multi-view character consistency and 3D camera control in video diffusion models through a novel customization data pipeline. We train the character consistency component with recorded volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yuancheng Xu , Wenqi Xian , Li Ma , Julien Philip , Ahmet Levent Taşel , Yiwei Zhao , Ryan Burgert , Mingming He , Oliver Hermann , Oliver Pilarski , Rahul Garg , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

In this paper, we present a diffusion model-based framework for animating people from a single image for a given target 3D motion sequence. Our approach has two core components: a) learning priors about invisible parts of the human body and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Boyi Li , Junming Chen , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Yossi Gandelsman , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

We propose a real-time 3D human pose estimation and motion analysis method termed RePose for rehabilitation training. It is capable of real-time monitoring and evaluation of patients'motion during rehabilitation, providing immediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Junxiao Xue , Pavel Smirnov , Ziao Li , Yunyun Shi , Shi Chen , Xinyi Yin , Xiaohan Yue , Lei Wang , Yiduo Wang , Feng Lin , Yijia Chen , Xiao Ma , Xiaoran Yan , Qing Zhang , Fengjian Xue , Xuecheng Wu

In this work, we present DreamDance, a novel method for animating human images using only skeleton pose sequences as conditional inputs. Existing approaches struggle with generating coherent, high-quality content in an efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yatian Pang , Bin Zhu , Bin Lin , Mingzhe Zheng , Francis E. H. Tay , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang , Li Yuan

Monocular 3D human pose estimation remains a challenging task due to inherent depth ambiguities and occlusions. Compared to traditional methods based on Transformers or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), recent diffusion-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoxin Yang , Weihong Chen , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Peng Xiao , Cuifeng Sun , Shaoyu Huang , Shengfeng He

This paper explores the innovative application of Stable Video Diffusion (SVD), a diffusion model that revolutionizes the creation of dynamic video content from static images. As digital media and design industries accelerate, SVD emerges…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Elijah Miller , Thomas Dupont , Mingming Wang

Motion-preserved video editing is crucial for creators, particularly in scenarios that demand flexibility in both the structure and semantics of swapped objects. Despite its potential, this area remains underexplored. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sandeep Mishra , Oindrila Saha , Alan C. Bovik

Colorization is a traditional computer vision task and it plays an important role in many time-consuming tasks, such as old film restoration. Existing methods suffer from unsaturated color and temporally inconsistency. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Han Wang , Yuang Zhang , Yuhong Zhang , Lingxiao Lu , Li Song