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Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guian Fang , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

Crafting a single, versatile physics-based controller that can breathe life into interactive characters across a wide spectrum of scenarios represents an exciting frontier in character animation. An ideal controller should support diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Chen Tessler , Yunrong Guo , Ofir Nabati , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

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)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mingshuang Luo , Shuang Liang , Zhengkun Rong , Yuxuan Luo , Tianshu Hu , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Yong Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

We propose pose-guided multiplane image (MPI) synthesis which can render an animatable character in real scenes with photorealistic quality. We use a portable camera rig to capture the multi-view images along with the driving signal for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Hao Ouyang , Bo Zhang , Pan Zhang , Hao Yang , Jiaolong Yang , Dong Chen , Qifeng Chen , Fang Wen

In this paper, we propose \textbf{CharacterShot}, a controllable and consistent 4D character animation framework that enables any individual designer to create dynamic 3D characters (i.e., 4D character animation) from a single reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junyao Gao , Jiaxing Li , Wenran Liu , Yanhong Zeng , Fei Shen , Kai Chen , Yanan Sun , Cairong Zhao

Deep networks have shown impressive performance in the image restoration tasks, such as image colorization. However, we find that previous approaches rely on the digital representation from single color model with a specific mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Xiangcheng Du , Zhao Zhou , Yanlong Wang , Zhuoyao Wang , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

We propose DeepMultiCap, a novel method for multi-person performance capture using sparse multi-view cameras. Our method can capture time varying surface details without the need of using pre-scanned template models. To tackle with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Yang Zheng , Ruizhi Shao , Yuxiang Zhang , Tao Yu , Zerong Zheng , Qionghai Dai , Yebin Liu

Character image animation is gaining significant importance across various domains, driven by the demand for robust and flexible multi-subject rendering. While existing methods excel in single-person animation, they struggle to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Ke Ma , Yutong Feng , Qiyuan Zhang , Yan Wang , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics and AI, with numerous applications in real-world scenarios. One such scenario is filming scenes with multiple actors, where the goal is to capture the scene from multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Aditya Rauniyar , Jiaoyang Li , Sebastian Scherer

The current state-of-the-art Diffusion model has demonstrated excellent results in generating images. However, the images are monotonous and are mostly the result of the distribution of images of people in the training set, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianyu Chen

The existing image captioning approaches typically train a one-stage sentence decoder, which is difficult to generate rich fine-grained descriptions. On the other hand, multi-stage image caption model is hard to train due to the vanishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Jiuxiang Gu , Jianfei Cai , Gang Wang , Tsuhan Chen

The existing state-of-the-art method for audio-visual conditioned video prediction uses the latent codes of the audio-visual frames from a multimodal stochastic network and a frame encoder to predict the next visual frame. However, a direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yating Xu , Conghui Hu , Gim Hee Lee

Controllable human image animation aims to generate videos from reference images using driving videos. Due to the limited control signals provided by sparse guidance (e.g., skeleton pose), recent works have attempted to introduce additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Hongxiang Li , Yaowei Li , Yuhang Yang , Junjie Cao , Zhihong Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Long Chen

Manipulating images of complex scenes to reconstruct, insert and/or remove specific object instances is a challenging task. Complex scenes contain multiple semantics and objects, which are frequently cluttered or ambiguous, thus hampering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Pierfrancesco Ardino , Yahui Liu , Elisa Ricci , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

In this work we combine two research threads from Vision/ Graphics and Natural Language Processing to formulate an image generation task conditioned on attributes in a multi-turn setting. By multiturn, we mean the image is generated in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Ryan Y. Benmalek , Claire Cardie , Serge Belongie , Xiadong He , Jianfeng Gao

Controllable character animation has advanced rapidly in recent years, yet multi-character animation remains underexplored. As the number of characters grows, multi-character reference encoding becomes more susceptible to latent identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenyu Xie , Ji Xia , Michael Kampffmeyer , Panwen Hu , Zehua Ma , Yujian Zheng , Jing Wang , Zheng Chong , Xujie Zhang , Xianhang Cheng , Xiaodan Liang , Hao Li

In this paper we present a new deep learning-driven approach to image-based synthesis of animations involving humanoid characters. Unlike previous deep approaches to image-based animation our method makes no assumptions on the type of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 John Kanji , David I. W. Levin

Character animation is a transformative field in computer graphics and vision, enabling dynamic and realistic video animations from static images. Despite advancements, maintaining appearance consistency in animations remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaoyu Jin , Zunnan Xu , Mingwen Ou , Wenming Yang

We propose InstanceAnimator, a novel Diffusion Transformer framework for multi-instance sketch video colorization. Existing methods suffer from three core limitations: inflexible user control due to heavy reliance on single reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yinhan Zhang , Yue Ma , Bingyuan Wang , Kunyu Feng , Yeying Jin , Qifeng Chen , Anyi Rao , Zeyu Wang