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This paper proposes a new generative adversarial network for pose transfer, i.e., transferring the pose of a given person to a target pose. The generator of the network comprises a sequence of Pose-Attentional Transfer Blocks that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Zhen Zhu , Tengteng Huang , Baoguang Shi , Miao Yu , Bofei Wang , Xiang Bai

Egocentric video generation with fine-grained control through body motion is a key requirement towards embodied AI agents that can simulate, predict, and plan actions. In this work, we propose EgoControl, a pose-controllable video diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Enrico Pallotta , Sina Mokhtarzadeh Azar , Lars Doorenbos , Serdar Ozsoy , Umar Iqbal , Juergen Gall

Despite recent progress, video generative models still struggle to animate static images into videos that portray delicate human actions, particularly when handling uncommon or novel actions whose training data are limited. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Haoxin Li , Yingchen Yu , Qilong Wu , Hanwang Zhang , Song Bai , Boyang Li

Recent diffusion-based human image animation techniques have demonstrated impressive success in synthesizing videos that faithfully follow a given reference identity and a sequence of desired movement poses. Despite this, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Changxin Gao , Jiayu Wang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Yingya Zhang , Luxin Yan , Nong Sang

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

Inferring full-body poses from Head Mounted Devices, which capture only 3-joint observations from the head and wrists, is a challenging task with wide AR/VR applications. Previous attempts focus on learning one-stage motion mapping and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fangyu Du , Yang Yang , Xuehao Gao , Hongye Hou

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Photo-realistic re-rendering of a human from a single image with explicit control over body pose, shape and appearance enables a wide range of applications, such as human appearance transfer, virtual try-on, motion imitation, and novel view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kripasindhu Sarkar , Vladislav Golyanik , Lingjie Liu , Christian Theobalt

Face image animation from a single image has achieved remarkable progress. However, it remains challenging when only sparse landmarks are available as the driving signal. Given a source face image and a sequence of sparse face landmarks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Ruiqi Zhao , Tianyi Wu , Guodong Guo

Given an "in-the-wild" video of a person, we reconstruct an animatable model of the person in the video. The output model can be rendered in any body pose to any camera view, via the learned controls, without explicit 3D mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Chung-Yi Weng , Brian Curless , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

We propose a method for generating video-realistic animations of real humans under user control. In contrast to conventional human character rendering, we do not require the availability of a production-quality photo-realistic 3D model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Hyeongwoo Kim , Florian Bernard , Marc Habermann , Wenping Wang , Christian Theobalt

Human image animation aims to generate human videos of given characters and backgrounds that adhere to the desired pose sequence. However, existing methods focus more on human actions while neglecting the generation of background, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xiaoyu Liu , Mingshuai Yao , Yabo Zhang , Xianhui Lin , Peiran Ren , Xiaoming Li , Ming Liu , Wangmeng Zuo

Animating an avatar that reflects a user's action in the VR world enables natural interactions with the virtual environment. It has the potential to allow remote users to communicate and collaborate in a way as if they met in person.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yongjing Ye , Libin Liu , Lei Hu , Shihong Xia

Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Qi Zuo , Xiaodong Gu , Yuan Dong , Junfei Zhang , Chao Xu , Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Liefeng Bo , Guanying Chen , Zilong Dong

Human video generation task has gained significant attention with the advancement of deep generative models. Generating realistic videos with human movements is challenging in nature, due to the intricacies of human body topology and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhangsihao Yang , Mengyi Shan , Mohammad Farazi , Wenhui Zhu , Yanxi Chen , Xuanzhao Dong , Yalin Wang

We present HairWeaver, a diffusion-based pipeline that animates a single human image with realistic and expressive hair dynamics. While existing methods successfully control body pose, they lack specific control over hair, and as a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Di Chang , Ji Hou , Aljaz Bozic , Assaf Neuberger , Felix Juefei-Xu , Olivier Maury , Gene Wei-Chin Lin , Tuur Stuyck , Doug Roble , Mohammad Soleymani , Stephane Grabli

We present X-Dancer, a novel zero-shot music-driven image animation pipeline that creates diverse and long-range lifelike human dance videos from a single static image. As its core, we introduce a unified transformer-diffusion framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zeyuan Chen , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Chenxu Zhang , Xin Chen , Chao Wang , Di Chang , Linjie Luo

Head avatar reenactment focuses on creating animatable personal avatars from monocular videos, serving as a foundational element for applications like social signal understanding, gaming, human-machine interaction, and computer vision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Wei Liang , Hui Yu , Derui Ding , Rachael E. Jack , Philippe G. Schyns

Video body-swapping aims to replace the body in an existing video with a new body from arbitrary sources, which has garnered more attention in recent years. Existing methods treat video body-swapping as a composite of multiple tasks instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chengshu Zhao , Yunyang Ge , Xinhua Cheng , Bin Zhu , Yatian Pang , Bin Lin , Fan Yang , Feng Gao , Li Yuan

Existing multi-person video pose estimation methods typically adopt a two-stage pipeline: detecting individuals in each frame, followed by temporal modeling for single person pose estimation. This design relies on heuristic operations such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yonghui Yu , Jiahang Cai , Xun Wang , Wenwu Yang