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Recent video generation research has focused heavily on isolated actions, leaving interactive motions-such as hand-face interactions-largely unexamined. These interactions are essential for emerging biometric authentication systems, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yukang Lin , Yan Hong , Zunnan Xu , Xindi Li , Chao Xu , Chuanbiao Song , Ronghui Li , Haoxing Chen , Jun Lan , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang , Jianfu Zhang , Xiu Li

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved audio-driven human video generation, surpassing traditional methods in both quality and controllability. However, existing approaches still face challenges in lip-sync…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xingpei Ma , Shenneng Huang , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shen Zheng , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang

Generative AI is reshaping art, gaming, and most notably animation. Recent breakthroughs in foundation and diffusion models have reduced the time and cost of producing animated content. Characters are central animation components, involving…

Diffusion-based human animation aims to animate a human character based on a source human image as well as driving signals such as a sequence of poses. Leveraging the generative capacity of diffusion model, existing approaches are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Fa-Ting Hong , Zhan Xu , Haiyang Liu , Qinjie Lin , Luchuan Song , Zhixin Shu , Yang Zhou , Duygu Ceylan , Dan Xu

We present a novel approach for image-animation of a source image by a driving video, both depicting the same type of object. We do not assume the existence of pose models and our method is able to animate arbitrary objects without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Yoav Shalev , Lior Wolf

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

Animation of 2D hand-drawn sketches provides an effective medium for visual communication. However, these sketches pose challenges, particularly in handling occlusions and accurately mapping motion. While 3D animation naturally addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gaurav Rai , Ojaswa Sharma

We propose novel motion representations for animating articulated objects consisting of distinct parts. In a completely unsupervised manner, our method identifies object parts, tracks them in a driving video, and infers their motions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Oliver J. Woodford , Jian Ren , Menglei Chai , Sergey Tulyakov

Animation of humanoid characters is essential in various graphics applications, but requires significant time and cost to create realistic animations. We propose an approach to synthesize 4D animated sequences of input static 3D humanoid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Marc Benedí San Millán , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We study the problem of directly deriving an initial human reenactment from a monocular video of a non-human character. Our goal is not to reconstruct the source character itself but to reinterpret its motion as a plausible and editable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Liuhan Chen , Lei Zhong , Jiewei Wang , Qin Shuai , Li Yuan , Leidong Fan , Qing Li , Kanglin Liu

This paper presents a novel approach for exploring diverse and expressive motions that are physically correct and interactive. The approach combining user participation in with the animation development process using crowdsourcing to remove…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Benjamin Kenwright

The demand for realistic and versatile character animation has surged, driven by its wide-ranging applications in various domains. However, the animation generation algorithms modeling human pose with 2D or 3D structures all face various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyu Sun , Zhoujie Fu , Bang Zhang , Guosheng Lin

We present a lightweight appearance adapter for Stable Diffusion that enables controllable and consistent anime character generation under diverse editing conditions. Instead of relying on large-scale vision-language models or per-subject…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yixuan Han

Despite significant advancements in text-to-motion synthesis, generating language-guided human motion within 3D environments poses substantial challenges. These challenges stem primarily from (i) the absence of powerful generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Zan Wang , Yixin Chen , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Jinlu Zhang , Jingze Zhang , Tengyu Liu , Yixin Zhu , Wei Liang , Siyuan Huang

Controllable character image animation has a wide range of applications. Although existing studies have consistently improved performance, challenges persist in the field of character image animation, particularly concerning stability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jingyun Xue , Hongfa Wang , Qi Tian , Yue Ma , Andong Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Shaobo Min , Wenzhe Zhao , Kaihao Zhang , Heung-Yeung Shum , Wei Liu , Mengyang Liu , Wenhan Luo

We present Playable Environments - a new representation for interactive video generation and manipulation in space and time. With a single image at inference time, our novel framework allows the user to move objects in 3D while generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Christian Theobalt , Sergey Tulyakov , Vladislav Golyanik , Elisa Ricci

We introduce Wan-Animate, a unified framework for character animation and replacement. Given a character image and a reference video, Wan-Animate can animate the character by precisely replicating the expressions and movements of the…

Recent advancements in image-conditioned image generation have demonstrated substantial progress. However, foreground-conditioned image generation remains underexplored, encountering challenges such as compromised object integrity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tianyidan Xie , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Xiaoqian Ye , Feixuan Liu , Ying Tai , Zhenyu Zhang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

Robots need to understand their environment to perform their task. If it is possible to pre-program a visual scene analysis process in closed environments, robots operating in an open environment would benefit from the ability to learn it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Leni K. Le Goff , Oussama Yaakoubi , Alexandre Coninx , Stephane Doncieux

Recent diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive results on animating images of human subjects. However, most of that success has built on human-specific body pose representations and extensive training with labeled real videos. In…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zeqi Gu , Difan Liu , Timothy Langlois , Matthew Fisher , Abe Davis