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Digital characters are central to modern media, yet generating character videos with long-duration, consistent multi-view appearance and expressive identity remains challenging. Existing approaches either provide insufficient context to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuhang Yang , Fan Zhang , Huaijin Pi , Shuai Guo , Guowei Xu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

Controllable speech synthesis aims to control the style of generated speech using reference input, which can be of various modalities. Existing face-based methods struggle with robustness and generalization due to data quality constraints,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rui Niu , Weihao Wu , Jie Chen , Long Ma , Zhiyong Wu

Modern robotic manipulation primarily relies on visual observations in a 2D color space for skill learning but suffers from poor generalization. In contrast, humans, living in a 3D world, depend more on physical properties-such as distance,…

In this work, we present CineMaster, a novel framework for 3D-aware and controllable text-to-video generation. Our goal is to empower users with comparable controllability as professional film directors: precise placement of objects within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Qinghe Wang , Yawen Luo , Xiaoyu Shi , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu , Tianfan Xue , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

Traditional 3D content creation tools empower users to bring their imagination to life by giving them direct control over a scene's geometry, appearance, motion, and camera path. Creating computer-generated videos, however, is a tedious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shengqu Cai , Duygu Ceylan , Matheus Gadelha , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Tuanfeng Yang Wang , Gordon Wetzstein

Existing 3D-aware image synthesis approaches mainly focus on generating a single canonical object and show limited capacity in composing a complex scene containing a variety of objects. This work presents DisCoScene: a 3Daware generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Yinghao Xu , Menglei Chai , Zifan Shi , Sida Peng , Ivan Skorokhodov , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Hsin-Ying Lee , Bolei Zhou , Sergey Tulyakov

DuctTake is a system designed to enable practical compositing of multiple takes of a scene into a single video. Current industry solutions are based around object segmentation, a hard problem that requires extensive manual input and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Jan Rueegg , Oliver Wang , Aljoscha Smolic , Markus Gross

3D animation is central to modern visual media, yet traditional production pipelines remain labor-intensive, expertise-demanding, and computationally expensive. Recent AIGC-based approaches partially automate asset creation and rigging, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yupeng Zhu , Xiongzhen Zhang , Ye Chen , Bingbing Ni

Previous motion generation methods are limited to the pre-rigged 3D human model, hindering their applications in the animation of various non-rigged characters. In this work, we present TapMo, a Text-driven Animation Pipeline for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jiaxu Zhang , Shaoli Huang , Zhigang Tu , Xin Chen , Xiaohang Zhan , Gang Yu , Ying Shan

Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their underlying properties. We present PhyCo, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sriram Narayanan , Ziyu Jiang , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Manmohan Chandraker

Generating videos for visual storytelling can be a tedious and complex process that typically requires either live-action filming or graphics animation rendering. To bypass these challenges, our key idea is to utilize the abundance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Yingqing He , Menghan Xia , Haoxin Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Yuan Gong , Jinbo Xing , Yong Zhang , Xintao Wang , Chao Weng , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

The ultimate goal of video generation is to satisfy a fundamental trilemma: achieving high visual quality, maintaining rigorous physical consistency, and enabling precise controllability. While recent models can maintain this balance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Leyi Wu , Hao Lu , Ying-cong Chen

Recent video diffusion models generate photorealistic, temporally coherent videos, yet they fall short as reliable world models for autonomous driving, where structured motion and physically consistent interactions are essential. Adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ahmad Rahimi , Valentin Gerard , Eloi Zablocki , Matthieu Cord , Alexandre Alahi

Video diffusion models are moving beyond short, plausible clips toward world simulators that must remain consistent under camera motion, revisits, and intervention. Yet spatial memory remains a key bottleneck: explicit 3D structures can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Wei Yu , Runjia Qian , Yumeng Li , Liquan Wang , Songheng Yin , Sri Siddarth Chakaravarthy P , Dennis Anthony , Yang Ye , Yidi Li , Weiwei Wan , Animesh Garg

Animated movies are captivating for their unique character designs and imaginative storytelling, yet they pose significant challenges for existing recognition systems. Unlike the consistent visual patterns detected by conventional face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhongrui Gui , Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

We propose a systematic learning-based approach to the generation of massive quantities of synthetic 3D scenes and arbitrary numbers of photorealistic 2D images thereof, with associated ground truth information, for the purposes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Chenfanfu Jiang , Siyuan Qi , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang , Jenny Lin , Lap-Fai Yu , Demetri Terzopoulos , Song-Chun Zhu

The mainstream of the existing approaches for video prediction builds up their models based on a Single-In-Single-Out (SISO) architecture, which takes the current frame as input to predict the next frame in a recursive manner. This way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuliang Ning , Mengcheng Lan , Yanran Li , Chaofeng Chen , Qian Chen , Xunlai Chen , Xiaoguang Han , Shuguang Cui

Video co-segmentation refers to the task of jointly segmenting common objects appearing in a given group of videos. In practice, high-dimensional data such as videos can be conceptually thought as being drawn from a union of subspaces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Junlin Yao , Frank Nielsen

Generating long, cohesive video stories with consistent characters is a significant challenge for current text-to-video AI. We introduce a method that approaches video generation in a filmmaker-like manner. Instead of creating a video in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Chayan Jain , Rishant Sharma , Archit Garg , Ishan Bhanuka , Pratik Narang , Dhruv Kumar

Human motion synthesis in complex scenes presents a fundamental challenge, extending beyond conventional Text-to-Motion tasks by requiring the integration of diverse modalities such as static environments, movable objects, natural language…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zichen Geng , Zeeshan Hayder , Wei Liu , Ajmal Mian