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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

We study the problem of video-to-video synthesis, whose goal is to learn a mapping function from an input source video (e.g., a sequence of semantic segmentation masks) to an output photorealistic video that precisely depicts the content of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu , Jun-Yan Zhu , Guilin Liu , Andrew Tao , Jan Kautz , Bryan Catanzaro

The ability to synthesize long-term human motion sequences in real-world scenes can facilitate numerous applications. Previous approaches for scene-aware motion synthesis are constrained by pre-defined target objects or positions and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jingbo Wang , Yu Rong , Jingyuan Liu , Sijie Yan , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Combo, for harmonious co-speech holistic 3D human motion generation and efficient customizable adaption. In particular, we identify that one fundamental challenge as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Chao Xu , Mingze Sun , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Fei Wang , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Ruqi Huang , Alexander Hauptmann

We propose a method for generating video-realistic animations of real humans under user control. In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the availability of a production-quality photo-realistic 3D model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Hyeongwoo Kim , Florian Bernard , Marc Habermann , Wenping Wang , Christian Theobalt

Generating large-scale multi-character interactions is a challenging and important task in character animation. Multi-character interactions involve not only natural interactive motions but also characters coordinated with each other for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ziyi Chang , He Wang , George Alex Koulieris , Hubert P. H. Shum

Synthesizing human motions in 3D environments, particularly those with complex activities such as locomotion, hand-reaching, and human-object interaction, presents substantial demands for user-defined waypoints and stage transitions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nan Jiang , Zimo He , Zi Wang , Hongjie Li , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang , Yixin Zhu

We present a novel method for populating 3D indoor scenes with virtual humans that can navigate in the environment and interact with objects in a realistic manner. Existing approaches rely on training sequences that contain captured human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kaifeng Zhao , Yan Zhang , Shaofei Wang , Thabo Beeler , Siyu Tang

We propose a novel approach for 3D video synthesis that is able to represent multi-view video recordings of a dynamic real-world scene in a compact, yet expressive representation that enables high-quality view synthesis and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Tianye Li , Mira Slavcheva , Michael Zollhoefer , Simon Green , Christoph Lassner , Changil Kim , Tanner Schmidt , Steven Lovegrove , Michael Goesele , Richard Newcombe , Zhaoyang Lv

Modeling human behaviors in contextual environments has a wide range of applications in character animation, embodied AI, VR/AR, and robotics. In real-world scenarios, humans frequently interact with the environment and manipulate various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jiaman Li , Jiajun Wu , C. Karen Liu

Generating human-object interactions (HOIs) is critical with the tremendous advances of digital avatars. Existing datasets are typically limited to humans interacting with a single object while neglecting the ubiquitous manipulation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xintao Lv , Liang Xu , Yichao Yan , Xin Jin , Congsheng Xu , Shuwen Wu , Yifan Liu , Lincheng Li , Mengxiao Bi , Wenjun Zeng , Xiaokang Yang

Although humans have the innate ability to imagine multiple possible actions from videos, it remains an extraordinary challenge for computers due to the intricate camera movements and montages. Most existing motion generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Liangdong Qiu , Chengxing Yu , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Di Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xiaoguang Han

The pursuit of controllability as a higher standard of visual content creation has yielded remarkable progress in customizable image synthesis. However, achieving controllable video synthesis remains challenging due to the large variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiang Wang , Hangjie Yuan , Shiwei Zhang , Dayou Chen , Jiuniu Wang , Yingya Zhang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou

Video-to-video synthesis (vid2vid) aims for converting high-level semantic inputs to photorealistic videos. While existing vid2vid methods can achieve short-term temporal consistency, they fail to ensure the long-term one. This is because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Arun Mallya , Ting-Chun Wang , Karan Sapra , Ming-Yu Liu

Text-guided dynamic 3D character generation has advanced rapidly, yet producing high-quality motion that faithfully reflects rich textual descriptions remains challenging. Existing methods tend to generate limited sub-actions or incoherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Miaowei Wang , Qingxuan Yan , Zhi Cao , Yayuan Li , Oisin Mac Aodha , Jason J. Corso , Amir Vaxman

Generating high-quality 3D characters from single images remains a significant challenge in digital content creation, particularly due to complex body poses and self-occlusion. In this paper, we present RCM (Rotate your Character Model), an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jin Wang , Jianxiang Lu , Comi Chen , Guangzheng Xu , Haoyu Yang , Peng Chen , Na Zhang , Yifan Xu , Longhuang Wu , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu , Ping Luo

While current multi-frame restoration methods combine information from multiple input images using 2D alignment techniques, recent advances in novel view synthesis are paving the way for a new paradigm relying on volumetric scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Thomas Tanay , Aleš Leonardis , Matteo Maggioni

Generative AI has made significant strides in computer vision, particularly in text-driven image/video synthesis (T2I/T2V). Despite the notable advancements, it remains challenging in human-centric content synthesis such as realistic dance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Tan Wang , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Yuanhao Zhai , Chung-Ching Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Can we make virtual characters in a scene interact with their surrounding objects through simple instructions? Is it possible to synthesize such motion plausibly with a diverse set of objects and instructions? Inspired by these questions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Anindita Ghosh , Rishabh Dabral , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Motion controllability is crucial in video synthesis. However, most previous methods are limited to single control types, and combining them often results in logical conflicts. In this paper, we propose a disentangled and unified framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Wanquan Feng , Tianhao Qi , Jiawei Liu , Mingzhen Sun , Pengqi Tu , Tianxiang Ma , Fei Dai , Songtao Zhao , Siyu Zhou , Qian He