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Human video generation is becoming an increasingly important task with broad applications in graphics, entertainment, and embodied AI. Despite the rapid progress of video diffusion models (VDMs), their use for general-purpose human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hyelin Nam , Hyojun Go , Byeongjun Park , Byung-Hoon Kim , Hyungjin Chung

Generating human videos from a single image while ensuring high visual quality and precise control is a challenging task, especially in complex scenarios involving multiple individuals and interactions with objects. Existing methods, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Yuwei Guo , Dahua Lin , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai

The demand for realistic and versatile character animation has surged, driven by its wide-ranging applications in various domains. However, the animation generation algorithms modeling human pose with 2D or 3D structures all face various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyu Sun , Zhoujie Fu , Bang Zhang , Guosheng Lin

Existing methods for human motion control in video generation typically rely on either 2D poses or explicit 3D parametric models (e.g., SMPL) as control signals. However, 2D poses rigidly bind motion to the driving viewpoint, precluding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhixue Fang , Xu He , Songlin Tang , Haoxian Zhang , Qingfeng Li , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai

Diffusion models usher a new era of video editing, flexibly manipulating the video contents with text prompts. Despite the widespread application demand in editing human-centered videos, these models face significant challenges in handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaojing Zhong , Xinyi Huang , Xiaofeng Yang , Guosheng Lin , Qingyao Wu

We propose a self-supervised framework to learn scene representations from video that are automatically delineated into background, characters, and their animations. Our method capitalizes on moving characters being equivariant with respect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Cinjon Resnick , Or Litany , Cosmas Heiß , Hugo Larochelle , Joan Bruna , Kyunghyun Cho

Recent conditional image synthesis approaches provide high-quality synthesized images. However, it is still challenging to accurately adjust image contents such as the positions and orientations of objects, and synthesized images often have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Jaebong Jeong , Janghun Jo , Jingdong Wang , Sunghyun Cho , Jaesik Park

Generating good quality and geometrically plausible synthetic images of humans with the ability to control appearance, pose and shape parameters, has become increasingly important for a variety of tasks ranging from photo editing, fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Mihai Zanfir , Elisabeta Oneata , Alin-Ionut Popa , Andrei Zanfir , Cristian Sminchisescu

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

High-quality video generation is crucial for many fields, including the film industry and autonomous driving. However, generating videos with spatiotemporal consistencies remains challenging. Current methods typically utilize attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Haotian Dong , Xin Wang , Di Lin , Yipeng Wu , Qin Chen , Ruonan Liu , Kairui Yang , Ping Li , Qing Guo

Recent advancements in diffusion models have greatly improved the quality and diversity of synthesized content. To harness the expressive power of diffusion models, researchers have explored various controllable mechanisms that allow users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Tsai-Shien Chen , Chieh Hubert Lin , Hung-Yu Tseng , Tsung-Yi Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Generating realistic 3D worlds occupied by moving humans has many applications in games, architecture, and synthetic data creation. But generating such scenes is expensive and labor intensive. Recent work generates human poses and motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Hongwei Yi , Chun-Hao P. Huang , Shashank Tripathi , Lea Hering , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

Existing generative approaches for guided image synthesis of multi-object scenes typically rely on 2D controls in the image or text space. As a result, these methods struggle to maintain and respect consistent three-dimensional geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Léopold Maillard , Tom Durand , Adrien Ramanana Rahary , Maks Ovsjanikov

The challenge of dynamic view synthesis from dynamic monocular videos, i.e., synthesizing novel views for free viewpoints given a monocular video of a dynamic scene captured by a moving camera, mainly lies in accurately modeling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Meng You , Junhui Hou

Despite advancements in Text-to-Video (T2V) generation, producing videos with realistic motion remains challenging. Current models often yield static or minimally dynamic outputs, failing to capture complex motions described by text. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Penghui Ruan , Pichao Wang , Divya Saxena , Jiannong Cao , Yuhui Shi

Creating realistic 3D animation remains a time-consuming and expertise-dependent process, requiring manual rigging, keyframing, and fine-tuning of complex motions. Meanwhile, video diffusion models have recently demonstrated remarkable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yaowei Guo , Yin Yang , Bolei Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

Existing video generation models predominantly emphasize appearance fidelity while exhibiting limited ability to synthesize complex human motions, such as whole-body movements, long-range dynamics, and fine-grained human-environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haoyu Wang , Hao Tang , Donglin Di , Zhilu Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Feng Gao , Siwei Ma , Shiliang Zhang

Video understanding calls for a model to learn the characteristic interplay between static scene content and its dynamics: Given an image, the model must be able to predict a future progression of the portrayed scene and, conversely, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Michael Dorkenwald , Timo Milbich , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Björn Ommer

Generating realistic group interactions involving multiple characters remains challenging due to increasing complexity as group size expands. While existing conditional diffusion models incrementally generate motions by conditioning on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Sakuya Ota , Qing Yu , Kent Fujiwara , Satoshi Ikehata , Ikuro Sato

Synthesizing natural interactions between virtual humans and their 3D environments is critical for numerous applications, such as computer games and AR/VR experiences. Our goal is to synthesize humans interacting with a given 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Kaifeng Zhao , Shaofei Wang , Yan Zhang , Thabo Beeler , Siyu Tang