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Natural and expressive human motion generation is the holy grail of computer animation. It is a challenging task, due to the diversity of possible motion, human perceptual sensitivity to it, and the difficulty of accurately describing it.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Guy Tevet , Sigal Raab , Brian Gordon , Yonatan Shafir , Daniel Cohen-Or , Amit H. Bermano

Human image animation involves generating a video from a static image by following a specified pose sequence. Current approaches typically adopt a multi-stage pipeline that separately learns appearance and motion, which often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qilin Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Chengming Xu , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Xinyi Zhang , Yun Cao , Weijian Cao , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Bimanual manipulation is crucial in robotics, enabling complex tasks in industrial automation and household services. However, it poses significant challenges due to the high-dimensional action space and intricate coordination requirements.…

The essence of a video lies in its dynamic motions, including character actions, object movements, and camera movements. While text-to-video generative diffusion models have recently advanced in creating diverse contents, controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Nisha Huang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Denoising diffusion models have shown great promise in human motion synthesis conditioned on natural language descriptions. However, integrating spatial constraints, such as pre-defined motion trajectories and obstacles, remains a challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Konpat Preechakul , Supasorn Suwajanakorn , Siyu Tang

Despite remarkable achievements in video synthesis, achieving granular control over complex dynamics, such as nuanced movement among multiple interacting objects, still presents a significant hurdle for dynamic world modeling, compounded by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengxiang Li , Kai Chen , Zhili Liu , Ruiyuan Gao , Lanqing Hong , Guo Zhou , Hua Yao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia

We propose X-Portrait, an innovative conditional diffusion model tailored for generating expressive and temporally coherent portrait animation. Specifically, given a single portrait as appearance reference, we aim to animate it with motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Linjie Luo

We present Diffuse-CLoC, a guided diffusion framework for physics-based look-ahead control that enables intuitive, steerable, and physically realistic motion generation. While existing kinematics motion generation with diffusion models…

Synthesizing realistic animations of humans, animals, and even imaginary creatures, has long been a goal for artists and computer graphics professionals. Compared to the imaging domain, which is rich with large available datasets, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Sigal Raab , Inbal Leibovitch , Guy Tevet , Moab Arar , Amit H. Bermano , Daniel Cohen-Or

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

Animating a still image offers an engaging visual experience. Traditional image animation techniques mainly focus on animating natural scenes with stochastic dynamics (e.g. clouds and fluid) or domain-specific motions (e.g. human hair or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yong Zhang , Haoxin Chen , Wangbo Yu , Hanyuan Liu , Xintao Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong , Ying Shan

The diffusion model is widely leveraged for either video generation or video editing. As each field has its task-specific problems, it is difficult to merely develop a single diffusion for completing both tasks simultaneously. Video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Haoyu Zhao , Tianyi Lu , Jiaxi Gu , Xing Zhang , Qingping Zheng , Zuxuan Wu , Hang Xu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Creating high-quality anime illustrations presents notable challenges, particularly for beginners, due to the intricate styles and fine details inherent in anime art. We present an interactive drawing guidance system specifically designed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chuang Chen , Xiaoxuan Xie , Yongming Zhang , Tianyu Zhang , Haoran Xie

Image diffusion distillation achieves high-fidelity generation with very few sampling steps. However, applying these techniques directly to video diffusion often results in unsatisfactory frame quality due to the limited visual quality in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuanhao Zhai , Kevin Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Chung-Ching Lin , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan , Lijuan Wang

Character image animation is gaining significant importance across various domains, driven by the demand for robust and flexible multi-subject rendering. While existing methods excel in single-person animation, they struggle to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Ke Ma , Yutong Feng , Qiyuan Zhang , Yan Wang , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

In this work, we propose MagicPose, a diffusion-based model for 2D human pose and facial expression retargeting. Specifically, given a reference image, we aim to generate a person's new images by controlling the poses and facial expressions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Di Chang , Yichun Shi , Quankai Gao , Jessica Fu , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Qing Yan , Yizhe Zhu , Xiao Yang , Mohammad Soleymani

Existing diffusion-based video editing models have made gorgeous advances for editing attributes of a source video over time but struggle to manipulate the motion information while preserving the original protagonist's appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Shuyuan Tu , Qi Dai , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Han Hu , Xintong Han , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We present MOFA-Video, an advanced controllable image animation method that generates video from the given image using various additional controllable signals (such as human landmarks reference, manual trajectories, and another even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Muyao Niu , Xiaodong Cun , Xintao Wang , Yong Zhang , Ying Shan , Yinqiang Zheng