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Long video generation remains a challenging and compelling topic in computer vision. Diffusion based models, among the various approaches to video generation, have achieved state of the art quality with their iterative denoising procedures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Siyang Zhang , Harry Yang , Ser-Nam Lim

While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Most existing video colorization techniques operate on a frame-by-frame basis, often overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Rory Ward , Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , John G. Breslin , Peter Corcoran

To bring digital avatars into people's lives, it is highly demanded to efficiently generate complete, realistic, and animatable head avatars. This task is challenging, and it is difficult for existing methods to satisfy all the requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Sijing Wu , Yichao Yan , Yunhao Li , Yuhao Cheng , Wenhan Zhu , Ke Gao , Xiaobo Li , Guangtao Zhai

Sketching is a uniquely human tool for expressing ideas and creativity. The animation of sketches infuses life into these static drawings, opening a new dimension for designers. Animating sketches is a time-consuming process that demands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ruolin Yang , Da Li , Honggang Zhang , Yi-Zhe Song

Generating animated 3D objects is at the heart of many applications, yet most advanced works are typically difficult to apply in practice because of their limited setup, their long runtime, or their limited quality. We introduce ActionMesh,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Remy Sabathier , David Novotny , Niloy J. Mitra , Tom Monnier

While large-scale diffusion models have revolutionized video synthesis, achieving precise control over both multi-subject identity and multi-granularity motion remains a significant challenge. Recent attempts to bridge this gap often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yujie Wei , Xinyu Liu , Shiwei Zhang , Hangjie Yuan , Jinbo Xing , Zhekai Chen , Xiang Wang , Haonan Qiu , Rui Zhao , Yutong Feng , Ruihang Chu , Yingya Zhang , Yike Guo , Xihui Liu , Hongming Shan

Game level editing is the process of constructing a full game level starting from 3D asset libraries, e.g. 3d models, textures, shaders, scripts. In level editing, designers define the look and behavior of the whole level by placing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Christian Santoni , Gabriele Salvati , Valentina Tibaldo , Fabio Pellacini

Digital creators, from indie filmmakers to animation studios, face a persistent bottleneck: translating their creative vision into precise camera movements. Despite significant progress in computer vision and artificial intelligence,…

Controllability, temporal coherence, and detail synthesis remain the most critical challenges in video generation. In this paper, we focus on a commonly used yet underexplored cinematic technique known as Frame In and Frame Out.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Boyang Wang , Xuweiyi Chen , Matheus Gadelha , Zezhou Cheng

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

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…

Learning a generalist embodied agent capable of completing multiple tasks poses challenges, primarily stemming from the scarcity of action-labeled robotic datasets. In contrast, a vast amount of human videos exist, capturing intricate tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Haoran He , Chenjia Bai , Ling Pan , Weinan Zhang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

Recent feed-forward reconstruction models like VGGT and $\pi^3$ achieve impressive reconstruction quality but cannot process streaming videos due to quadratic memory complexity, limiting their practical deployment. While existing streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tianye Ding , Yiming Xie , Yiqing Liang , Moitreya Chatterjee , Pedro Miraldo , Huaizu Jiang

Hair simulation and rendering are challenging due to complex strand dynamics, diverse material properties, and intricate light-hair interactions. Recent video diffusion models can generate high-quality videos, but they lack fine-grained…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Weikai Lin , Haoxiang Li , Yuhao Zhu

Recent advances in image generation have achieved remarkable visual quality, while a fundamental challenge remains: Can image generation be controlled at the element level, enabling intuitive modifications such as adjusting shapes, altering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lanqing Guo , Xi Liu , Yufei Wang , Zhihao Li , Siyu Huang

Averaging neural network parameters is an intuitive method for fusing the knowledge of two independent models. It is most prominently used in federated learning. If models are averaged at the end of training, this can only lead to a good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Linara Adilova , Maksym Andriushchenko , Michael Kamp , Asja Fischer , Martin Jaggi

Image vectorization is a powerful technique that converts raster images into vector graphics, enabling enhanced flexibility and interactivity. However, popular image vectorization tools struggle with occluded regions, producing incomplete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ronghuan Wu , Wanchao Su , Jing Liao

In this paper, we present an efficient and effective single-stage framework (DiverGAN) to generate diverse, plausible and semantically consistent images according to a natural-language description. DiverGAN adopts two novel word-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhenxing Zhang , Lambert Schomaker

We present a novel task, i.e., animating a target 3D object through the motion of a raw driving sequence. In previous works, extra auxiliary correlations between source and target meshes or intermedia factors are inevitable to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Haoyu Chen , Hao Tang , Nicu Sebe , Guoying Zhao

Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Nan Chen , Mengqi Huang , Yihao Meng , Zhendong Mao