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Traditional animation generation methods depend on training generative models with human-labelled data, entailing a sophisticated multi-stage pipeline that demands substantial human effort and incurs high training costs. Due to limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yunxin Li , Haoyuan Shi , Baotian Hu , Longyue Wang , Jiashun Zhu , Jinyi Xu , Zhen Zhao , Min Zhang

Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications. Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to reconstruct clothed humans. We introduce PhysAvatar, a novel…

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 elevates digital documents into immersive experiences, yet creating custom motion paths remains cumbersome, requiring designers to manually select presets, plot B\'ezier points, and configure timing properties. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mannat Khurana , Sanyam Jain , Rishav Agarwal

Recent advances in digital avatar technology have enabled the generation of compelling virtual characters, but deploying these avatars on compute-constrained devices poses significant challenges for achieving realistic garment deformations.…

We present a new method for generating controllable, dynamically responsive, and photorealistic human animations. Given an image of a person, our system allows the user to generate Physically plausible Upper Body Animation (PUBA) using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Ziyuan Huang , Zhengping Zhou , Yung-Yu Chuang , Jiajun Wu , C. Karen Liu

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

Generating high-quality cartoon animations multimodal control is challenging due to the complexity of non-human characters, stylistically diverse motions and fine-grained emotions. There is a huge domain gap between real-world videos and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shuolin Xu , Bingyuan Wang , Zeyu Cai , Fangteng Fu , Yue Ma , Tongyi Lee , Hongchuan Yu , Zeyu Wang

Recent talking avatar generation models have made strides in achieving realistic and accurate lip synchronization with the audio, but often fall short in controlling and conveying detailed expressions and emotions of the avatar, making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yuchi Wang , Junliang Guo , Jianhong Bai , Runyi Yu , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xu Sun , Jiang Bian

We introduce PhysicalAgent, an agentic framework for robotic manipulation that integrates iterative reasoning, diffusion-based video generation, and closed-loop execution. Given a textual instruction, our method generates short video…

Existing for audio- and pose-driven human animation methods often struggle with stiff head movements and blurry hands, primarily due to the weak correlation between audio and head movements and the structural complexity of hands. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Donglin Huang , Yongyuan Li , Tianhang Liu , Junming Huang , Xiaoda Yang , Chi Wang , Weiwei Xu

We introduce SimAvatar, a framework designed to generate simulation-ready clothed 3D human avatars from a text prompt. Current text-driven human avatar generation methods either model hair, clothing, and the human body using a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xueting Li , Ye Yuan , Shalini De Mello , Gilles Daviet , Jonathan Leaf , Miles Macklin , Jan Kautz , Umar Iqbal

We present GANimator, a generative model that learns to synthesize novel motions from a single, short motion sequence. GANimator generates motions that resemble the core elements of the original motion, while simultaneously synthesizing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Peizhuo Li , Kfir Aberman , Zihan Zhang , Rana Hanocka , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

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

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

The production of animation is a resource intensive process in game companies. Therefore, techniques to synthesize animations have been developed. However, these procedural techniques offer limited adaptability by animation artists. In…

With the recent success of deep learning algorithms, many researchers have focused on generative models for human motion animation. However, the research community lacks a platform for training and benchmarking various algorithms, and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yizhou Zhao , Wensi Ai , Liang Qiu , Pan Lu , Feng Shi , Tian Han , Song-Chun Zhu

We present a novel approach for generating animatable 3D-aware art avatars from a single image, with controllable facial expressions, head poses, and shoulder movements. Unlike previous reenactment methods, our approach utilizes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Shaoxu Li

In this paper, we propose PixelHuman, a novel human rendering model that generates animatable human scenes from a few images of a person with unseen identity, views, and poses. Previous work have demonstrated reasonable performance in novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Gyumin Shim , Jaeseong Lee , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

With the advancement of generative artificial intelligence, previous studies have achieved the task of generating aesthetic images from hand-drawn sketches, fulfilling the public's needs for drawing. However, these methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Lifan Jiang , Shuang Chen , Boxi Wu , Xiaotong Guan , Jiahui Zhang