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Different people have different facial expressions while speaking emotionally. A realistic facial animation system should consider such identity-specific speaking styles and facial idiosyncrasies to achieve high-degree of naturalness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Elif Bozkurt

Deep generative models have been recently extended to synthesizing 3D digital humans. However, previous approaches treat clothed humans as a single chunk of geometry without considering the compositionality of clothing and accessories. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Taeksoo Kim , Shunsuke Saito , Hanbyul Joo

Creating and editing high-quality 3D content remains a central challenge in computer graphics. We address this challenge by introducing CompoSE, a novel method for Compositional Synthesis and Editing of 3D shapes via part-aware control. Our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Habib Slim , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Yifan Wang , Mike Roberts

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

We propose an approach to enhancing synthetic video realism, which can re-render synthetic videos from a simulator in photorealistic fashion. Our realism enhancement approach is a zero-shot framework that focuses on preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yifan Wang , Liya Ji , Zhanghan Ke , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim , Qifeng Chen

Generating rich and controllable motion is a pivotal challenge in video synthesis. We propose Boximator, a new approach for fine-grained motion control. Boximator introduces two constraint types: hard box and soft box. Users select objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jiawei Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Jiaxin Zou , Yan Zeng , Guoqiang Wei , Liping Yuan , Hang Li

Although recent text-to-video generative models are getting more capable of following external camera controls, imposed by either text descriptions or camera trajectories, they still struggle to generalize to unconventional camera motions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qiucheng Wu , Handong Zhao , Zhixin Shu , Jing Shi , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Image animation has seen significant progress, driven by the powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models. However, maintaining appearance consistency with static input images and mitigating abrupt motion transitions in generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xin Ma , Yaohui Wang , Genyun Jia , Xinyuan Chen , Tien-Tsin Wong , Cunjian Chen

This paper proposes a novel application system for the generation of three-dimensional (3D) character animation driven by markerless human body motion capturing. The entire pipeline of the system consists of five stages: 1) the capturing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jinbao Wang , Ke Lu , Jian Xue

In the field of digital content creation, generating high-quality 3D characters from single images is challenging, especially given the complexities of various body poses and the issues of self-occlusion and pose ambiguity. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Hao-Yang Peng , Jia-Peng Zhang , Meng-Hao Guo , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Min Hu

Animating various character drawings is an engaging visual content creation task. Given a single character drawing, existing animation methods are limited to flat 2D motions and thus lack 3D effects. An alternative solution is to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jie Zhou , Chufeng Xiao , Miu-Ling Lam , Hongbo Fu

This paper proposes a new end-to-end neural rendering architecture to transfer appearance and reenact human actors. Our method leverages a carefully designed graph convolutional network (GCN) to model the human body manifold structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Thiago L. Gomes , Thiago M. Coutinho , Rafael Azevedo , Renato Martins , Erickson R. Nascimento

Real-time in-between motion generation is universally required in games and highly desirable in existing animation pipelines. Its core challenge lies in the need to satisfy three critical conditions simultaneously: quality, controllability…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Xiangjun Tang , He Wang , Bo Hu , Xu Gong , Ruifan Yi , Qilong Kou , Xiaogang Jin

Motion in-betweening is the problem to synthesize movement between keyposes. Traditional research focused primarily on single characters. Extending them to densely interacting characters is highly challenging, as it demands precise…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiaotang Zhang , Ziyi Chang , Qianhui Men , Hubert P. H. Shum

Recent advances in generative modeling have led to promising progress on synthesizing 3D human motion from text, with methods that can generate character animations from short prompts and specified durations. However, using a single text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Mathis Petrovich , Or Litany , Umar Iqbal , Michael J. Black , Gül Varol , Xue Bin Peng , Davis Rempe

Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

Synthesizing realistic human-object interaction motions is a critical problem in VR/AR and human animation. Unlike the commonly studied scenarios involving a single human or hand interacting with one object, we address a more generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Wenkun He , Yun Liu , Ruitao Liu , Li Yi

Creating a vivid video from the event or scenario in our imagination is a truly fascinating experience. Recent advancements in text-to-video synthesis have unveiled the potential to achieve this with prompts only. While text is convenient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yuxin Liu , Yuechen Zhang , Yong Zhang , Yingqing He , Hanyuan Liu , Haoxin Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Tien-Tsin Wong

Recent progress in image and video synthesis has inspired their use in advancing 3D scene generation. However, we observe that text-to-image and -video approaches struggle to maintain scene- and object-level consistency beyond a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Manuel-Andreas Schneider , Angela Dai

This paper presents a novel generative approach that outputs 3D indoor environments solely from a textual description of the scene. Current methods often treat scene synthesis as a mere layout prediction task, leading to rooms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yao Wei , Matteo Toso , Pietro Morerio , Michael Ying Yang , Alessio Del Bue