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Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Despite recent advancements in learning-based motion in-betweening, a key limitation has been overlooked: the requirement for character-specific datasets. In this work, we introduce AnyMoLe, a novel method that addresses this limitation by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kwan Yun , Seokhyeon Hong , Chaelin Kim , Junyong Noh

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

Pose-guided human image animation aims to synthesize realistic videos of a reference character driven by a sequence of poses. While diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable success, most existing approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yingcheng Hu , Haowen Gong , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu , Songhua Liu

The field of controllable human-centric video generation has witnessed remarkable progress, particularly with the advent of diffusion models. However, achieving precise and localized control over human motion in videos, such as replacing or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Haonan Qiu , Ruihang Chu , Zekun Li , Yingya Zhang , Changxin Gao , Yuehuan Wang , Chunhua Shen , Nong Sang

Recent advances in video diffusion models have significantly improved character animation techniques. However, current approaches rely on basic structural conditions such as DWPose or SMPL-X to animate character images, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Muyao Niu , Mingdeng Cao , Yifan Zhan , Qingtian Zhu , Mingze Ma , Jiancheng Zhao , Yanhong Zeng , Zhihang Zhong , Xiao Sun , Yinqiang Zheng

Recent advances in world models have greatly enhanced interactive environment simulation. Existing methods mainly fall into two categories: (1) static world generation models, which construct 3D environments without active agents, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yitong Wang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Bo Dai , Yan Lu

Text-to-video (T2V) generation has advanced rapidly, yet maintaining consistent character identities across scenes remains a major challenge. Existing personalization methods often focus on facial identity but fail to preserve broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ziyang Mai , Yu-Wing Tai

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

This report introduces Make-A-Character 2, an advanced system for generating high-quality 3D characters from single portrait photographs, ideal for game development and digital human applications. Make-A-Character 2 builds upon its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Lin Liu , Yutong Wang , Jiahao Chen , Jianfang Li , Tangli Xue , Longlong Li , Jianqiang Ren , Liefeng Bo

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

We present an efficient spacetime optimization method to automatically generate animations for a general volumetric, elastically deformable body. Our approach can model the interactions between the body and the environment and automatically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Zherong Pan , Dinesh Manocha

Image animation is a key task in computer vision which aims to generate dynamic visual content from static image. Recent image animation methods employ neural based rendering technique to generate realistic animations. Despite these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zuozhuo Dai , Zhenghao Zhang , Yao Yao , Bingxue Qiu , Siyu Zhu , Long Qin , Weizhi Wang

Character image animation aims to synthesize high-fidelity videos by transferring motion from a driving sequence to a static reference image. Despite recent advancements, existing methods suffer from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mingshuang Luo , Shuang Liang , Zhengkun Rong , Yuxuan Luo , Tianshu Hu , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Yong Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

Can a video generation model be repurposed as an interactive world simulator? We explore the affordance perception potential of text-to-video models by teaching them to predict human-environment interaction. Given a scene image and a prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Mengyi Shan , Zecheng He , Haoyu Ma , Felix Juefei-Xu , Peizhao Zhang , Tingbo Hou , Ching-Yao Chuang

Animating stylized avatars with dynamic poses and expressions has attracted increasing attention for its broad range of applications. Previous research has made significant progress by training controllable generative models to synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Ken Chen , Sachith Seneviratne , Wei Wang , Dongting Hu , Sanjay Saha , Md. Tarek Hasan , Sanka Rasnayaka , Tamasha Malepathirana , Mingming Gong , Saman Halgamuge

End-to-end human animation with rich multi-modal conditions, e.g., text, image and audio has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. However, most existing methods could only animate a single subject and inject conditions in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhenzhi Wang , Jiaqi Yang , Jianwen Jiang , Chao Liang , Gaojie Lin , Zerong Zheng , Ceyuan Yang , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao , Dahua Lin

Movement is how people interact with and affect their environment. For realistic character animation, it is necessary to synthesize such interactions between virtual characters and their surroundings. Despite recent progress in character…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Mohamed Hassan , Yunrong Guo , Tingwu Wang , Michael Black , Sanja Fidler , Xue Bin Peng

Recent advances in 3D scene reconstruction and 4D human animation have broadened adoption, but integrating the two remains difficult. Key challenges include placing humans at plausible locations and scales without interpenetration, aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qingyang Liu , Bingjie Gao , Weiheng Huang , Jun Zhang , Zhongqian Sun , Yang Wei , Fengrui Liu , Zelin Peng , Qianli Ma , Shuai Yang , Zhaohe Liao , Haonan Zhao , Li Niu

Generating diverse and realistic human motion that can physically interact with an environment remains a challenging research area in character animation. Meanwhile, diffusion-based methods, as proposed by the robotics community, have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Takara E. Truong , Michael Piseno , Zhaoming Xie , C. Karen Liu
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