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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

Interactive applications demand believable characters that respond naturally to dynamic environments. Traditional character animation techniques often struggle to handle arbitrary situations, leading to a growing trend of dynamically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jose Luis Ponton , Sheldon Andrews , Carlos Andujar , Nuria Pelechano

We propose X-NeMo, a novel zero-shot diffusion-based portrait animation pipeline that animates a static portrait using facial movements from a driving video of a different individual. Our work first identifies the root causes of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xiaochen Zhao , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Chenxu Zhang , Xiu Li , Linjie Luo , Jinli Suo , Yebin Liu

Learning an animatable and clothed human avatar model with vivid dynamics and photorealistic appearance from multi-view videos is an important foundational research problem in computer graphics and vision. Fueled by recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Heming Zhu , Guoxing Sun , Christian Theobalt , Marc Habermann

Real-time animation of virtual characters has traditionally been accomplished by playing short sequences of animations structured in the form of a graph. These methods are time-consuming to set up and scale poorly with the number of motions…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jose Luis Ponton

We introduce LIA-X, a novel interpretable portrait animator designed to transfer facial dynamics from a driving video to a source portrait with fine-grained control. LIA-X is an autoencoder that models motion transfer as a linear navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yaohui Wang , Di Yang , Xinyuan Chen , Francois Bremond , Yu Qiao , Antitza Dantcheva

Recent pose-transfer methods aim to generate temporally consistent and fully controllable videos of human action where the motion from a reference video is reenacted by a new identity. We evaluate three state-of-the-art pose-transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

Recent advances in world models have greatly enhanced interactive environment simulation. Existing methods mainly fall into two categories: (1) static world generation models, which construct 3D environments without active agents, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yitong Wang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Bo Dai , Yan Lu

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

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

We present X-UniMotion, a unified and expressive implicit latent representation for whole-body human motion, encompassing facial expressions, body poses, and hand gestures. Unlike prior motion transfer methods that rely on explicit skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Guoxian Song , Hongyi Xu , Xiaochen Zhao , You Xie , Tianpei Gu , Zenan Li , Chenxu Zhang , Linjie Luo

We introduce X-Dyna, a novel zero-shot, diffusion-based pipeline for animating a single human image using facial expressions and body movements derived from a driving video, that generates realistic, context-aware dynamics for both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Di Chang , Hongyi Xu , You Xie , Yipeng Gao , Zhengfei Kuang , Shengqu Cai , Chenxu Zhang , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Zeyuan Chen , Shijie Zhou , Linjie Luo , Gordon Wetzstein , Mohammad Soleymani

Image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to create a video sequence from a single image, which requires high temporal coherence and visual fidelity. However, existing approaches suffer from inconsistency of character appearances and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Bingwen Zhu , Fanyi Wang , Tianyi Lu , Peng Liu , Jingwen Su , Jinxiu Liu , Yanhao Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Guo-Jun Qi , Yu-Gang Jiang

Character animation aims to generate lifelike videos by transferring motion dynamics from a driving video to a reference image. Recent strides in generative models have paved the way for high-fidelity character animation. In this work, we…

Animation of humanoid characters is essential in various graphics applications, but requires significant time and cost to create realistic animations. We propose an approach to synthesize 4D animated sequences of input static 3D humanoid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Marc Benedí San Millán , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Recent advances in diffusion models have greatly improved pose-driven character animation. However, existing methods are limited to spatially aligned reference-pose pairs with matched skeletal structures. Handling reference-pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Shijun Shi , Jing Xu , Zhihang Li , Chunli Peng , Xiaoda Yang , Lijing Lu , Kai Hu , Jiangning Zhang

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

Recent advances in video diffusion transformers have enabled interactive gaming world models that allow users to explore generated environments over extended horizons. However, existing approaches struggle with precise action control and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jisu Nam , Yicong Hong , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Feng Liu , JoungBin Lee , Jiyoung Kim , Siyoon Jin , Yunsung Lee , Jaeyoon Jung , Suhwan Choi , Seungryong Kim , Yang Zhou

Scalable learning of humanoid robots is crucial for their deployment in real-world applications. While traditional approaches primarily rely on reinforcement learning or teleoperation to achieve whole-body control, they are often limited by…

Human pose information is a critical component in many downstream image processing tasks, such as activity recognition and motion tracking. Likewise, a pose estimator for the illustrated character domain would provide a valuable prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Shuhong Chen , Matthias Zwicker