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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

Creating plausible virtual actors from images of real actors remains one of the key challenges in computer vision and computer graphics. Marker-less human motion estimation and shape modeling from images in the wild bring this challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Thiago L. Gomes , Renato Martins , João Ferreira , Erickson R. Nascimento

We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kaiyue Shen , Chen Guo , Manuel Kaufmann , Juan Jose Zarate , Julien Valentin , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

Recent diffusion-based talking face generation models have demonstrated impressive potential in synthesizing videos that accurately match a speech audio clip with a given reference identity. However, existing approaches still encounter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Xingpei Ma , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Character image animation, which generates high-quality videos from a reference image and target pose sequence, has seen significant progress in recent years. However, most existing methods only apply to human figures, which usually do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Dandan Zheng , Ruobing Zheng , Kecheng Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

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

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

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

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

Human motion copy is an intriguing yet challenging task in artificial intelligence and computer vision, which strives to generate a fake video of a target person performing the motion of a source person. The problem is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sifan Wu , Zhenguang Liu , Beibei Zhang , Roger Zimmermann , Zhongjie Ba , Xiaosong Zhang , Kui Ren

Facial expression and hand motions are necessary to express our emotions and interact with the world. Nevertheless, most of the 3D human avatars modeled from a casually captured video only support body motions without facial expressions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Gyeongsik Moon , Takaaki Shiratori , Shunsuke Saito

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

This work presents computational methods for transferring body movements from one person to another with videos collected in the wild. Specifically, we train a personalized model on a single video from the Internet which can generate videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yipin Zhou , Zhaowen Wang , Chen Fang , Trung Bui , Tamara L. Berg

Creating believable motions for various characters has long been a goal in computer graphics. Current learning-based motion synthesis methods depend on extensive motion datasets, which are often challenging, if not impossible, to obtain. On…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Qingqing Zhao , Peizhuo Li , Wang Yifan , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Gordon Wetzstein

Most current action recognition methods heavily rely on appearance information by taking an RGB sequence of entire image regions as input. While being effective in exploiting contextual information around humans, e.g., human appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Gyeongsik Moon , Heeseung Kwon , Kyoung Mu Lee , Minsu Cho

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

The trend in sign language generation is centered around data-driven generative methods that require vast amounts of precise 2D and 3D human pose data to achieve an acceptable generation quality. However, currently, most sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Kaustubh Kundu , Hrishav Bakul Barua , Lucy Robertson-Bell , Zhixi Cai , Kalin Stefanov

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

An ideal digital telepresence experience requires accurate replication of a person's body, clothing, and movements. To capture and transfer these movements into virtual reality, the egocentric (first-person) perspective can be adopted,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 G. Kutay Türkoglu , Julian Tanke , Iheb Belgacem , Lev Markhasin

Modeling animatable human avatars from monocular or multi-view videos has been widely studied, with recent approaches leveraging neural radiance fields (NeRFs) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieving impressive results in novel-view and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yahui Li , Zhi Zeng , Liming Pang , Guixuan Zhang , Shuwu Zhang