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True video understanding requires making sense of non-lambertian scenes where the color of light arriving at the camera sensor encodes information about not just the last object it collided with, but about multiple mediums -- colored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , João Carreira , Andrew Zisserman

Animation has gained significant interest in the recent film and TV industry. Despite the success of advanced video generation models like Sora, Kling, and CogVideoX in generating natural videos, they lack the same effectiveness in handling…

Computer vision is largely based on 2D techniques, with 3D vision still relegated to a relatively narrow subset of applications. However, by building on recent advances in 3D models such as neural radiance fields, some authors have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Vadim Tschernezki , Diane Larlus , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

Generating realistic animated videos from static images is an important area of research in computer vision. Methods based on physical simulation and motion prediction have achieved notable advances, but they are often limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qiang Wang , Minghua Liu , Junjun Hu , Fan Jiang , Mu Xu

Generative AI is reshaping art, gaming, and most notably animation. Recent breakthroughs in foundation and diffusion models have reduced the time and cost of producing animated content. Characters are central animation components, involving…

In Omnimatte, one aims to decompose a given video into semantically meaningful layers, including the background and individual objects along with their associated effects, such as shadows and reflections. Existing methods often require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Dvir Samuel , Matan Levy , Nir Darshan , Gal Chechik , Rami Ben-Ari

We propose EverAnimate, an efficient post-training method for long-horizon animated video generation that preserves visual quality and character identity. Long-form animation remains challenging because highly dynamic human motion must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Wuyang Li , Yang Gao , Mariam Hassan , Lan Feng , Wentao Pan , Po-Chien Luan , Alexandre Alahi

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

Text-driven multi-object image editing which aims to precisely modify multiple objects within an image based on text descriptions, has recently attracted considerable interest. Existing works primarily follow the localize-editing paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Fengyi Fu , Mengqi Huang , Lei Zhang , Zhendong Mao

In the animation industry, cartoon videos are usually produced at low frame rate since hand drawing of such frames is costly and time-consuming. Therefore, it is desirable to develop computational models that can automatically interpolate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Li Siyao , Shiyu Zhao , Weijiang Yu , Wenxiu Sun , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei 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

Layered control is essential for managing complexity in large-scale systems, employing progressively coarser models at higher layers. While significant advances have been made for fully observable systems, the theoretical foundations of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Charis Stamouli , Anastasios Tsiamis , George J. Pappas

We present AnimaX, a feed-forward 3D animation framework that bridges the motion priors of video diffusion models with the controllable structure of skeleton-based animation. Traditional motion synthesis methods are either restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zehuan Huang , Haoran Feng , Yangtian Sun , Yuanchen Guo , Yanpei Cao , Lu Sheng

The objective of this paper is to be able to separate a video into its natural layers, and to control which of the separated layers to attend to. For example, to be able to separate reflections, transparency or object motion. We make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , João Carreira , Relja Arandjelović , Andrew Zisserman

We seek to give users precise control over diffusion-based image generation by modeling complex scenes as sequences of layers, which define the desired spatial arrangement and visual attributes of objects in the scene. Collage Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Vishnu Sarukkai , Linden Li , Arden Ma , Christopher Ré , Kayvon Fatahalian

Over the past few years, the automatic generation of facial animation for virtual characters has garnered interest among the animation research and industry communities. Recent research contributions leverage machine-learning approaches to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Eloïse Berson , Catherine Soladié , Vincent Barrielle , Nicolas Stoiber

AI-driven content creation has shown potential in film production. However, existing film generation systems struggle to implement cinematic principles and thus fail to generate professional-quality films, particularly lacking diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Kaiyi Huang , Yukun Huang , Xintao Wang , Zinan Lin , Xuefei Ning , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Yu Wang , Xihui Liu

AI-generated content has attracted lots of attention recently, but photo-realistic video synthesis is still challenging. Although many attempts using GANs and autoregressive models have been made in this area, the visual quality and length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yingqing He , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

Recent advances in video diffusion models shows promise for generating robotic decision-making data, with trajectory conditions further enabling fine-grained control. However, existing methods primarily focus on individual object motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiao Fu , Xintao Wang , Xian Liu , Jianhong Bai , Runsen Xu , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Dahua Lin

Recent diffusion-based approaches have made substantial progress in image layer decomposition. However, accurately decomposing complex natural images remains challenging due to difficulties in occlusion completion, robust layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Binhao Wang , Shihao Zhao , Bo Cheng , Qiuyu Ji , Yuhang Ma , Liebucha Wu , Shanyuan Liu , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin