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Real-time animation of virtual characters has traditionally been accomplished by playing short sequences of animations structured in the form of a graph. These methods are time-consuming to set up and scale poorly with the number of motions…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Jose Luis Ponton

Recent advancements in video generation, particularly in diffusion models, have driven notable progress in text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) synthesis. However, challenges remain in effectively integrating dynamic motion signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ziye Li , Hao Luo , Xincheng Shuai , Henghui Ding

Conditional human animation traditionally animates static reference images using pose-based motion cues extracted from video data. However, these video-derived cues often suffer from low temporal resolution, motion blur, and unreliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qiang Qu , Ming Li , Xiaoming Chen , Tongliang Liu

Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Geonhee Sim , Gyeongsik Moon

Identity-consistent generation has become an important focus in text-to-image research, with recent models achieving notable success in producing images aligned with a reference identity. Yet, the scarcity of large-scale paired datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hengyuan Xu , Wei Cheng , Peng Xing , Yixiao Fang , Shuhan Wu , Rui Wang , Xianfang Zeng , Daxin Jiang , Gang Yu , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Over recent years, diffusion models have facilitated significant advancements in video generation. Yet, the creation of face-related videos still confronts issues such as low facial fidelity, lack of frame consistency, limited editability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Linze Li , Sunqi Fan , Hengjun Pu , Zhaodong Bing , Yao Tang , Tianzhu Ye , Tong Yang , Liangyu Chen , Jiajun Liang

We propose DriveAnyMesh, a method for driving mesh guided by monocular video. Current 4D generation techniques encounter challenges with modern rendering engines. Implicit methods have low rendering efficiency and are unfriendly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yahao Shi , Yang Liu , Yanmin Wu , Xing Liu , Chen Zhao , Jie Luo , Bin Zhou

Hand-drawn character animation is a vibrant field in computer graphics, presenting challenges in achieving geometric consistency while conveying expressive motion. Traditional skeletal animation methods maintain geometric consistency but…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jie Zhou , Linzi Qu , Miu-Ling Lam , Hongbo Fu

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

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

In the game development process, creating character animations is a vital step that involves several stages. Typically for 2D games, illustrators begin by designing the main character image, which serves as the foundation for all subsequent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cheng-An Hsieh , Jing Zhang , Ava Yan

Recent progress in video diffusion models has markedly advanced character animation, which synthesizes motioned videos by animating a static identity image according to a driving video. Explicit methods represent motion using skeleton,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhufeng Xu , Xuan Gao , Feng-Lin Liu , Haoxian Zhang , Zhixue Fang , Yu-Kun Lai , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Lin Gao

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

Recent pose-transfer methods aim to generate temporally consistent and fully controllable videos of human action where the motion from a reference video is reenacted by a new identity. We evaluate three state-of-the-art pose-transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

We focus on the problem of using generative diffusion models for the task of motion detailing: converting a rough version of a character animation, represented by a sparse set of coarsely posed, and imprecisely timed blocking poses, into a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Purvi Goel , Guy Tevet , C. K. Liu , Kayvon Fatahalian

We describe a hidden surface removal algorithm for two-dimensional layered scenes built from arbitrary primitives, particularly suited to interaction and animation in rich scenes (for example, in illustration). The method makes use of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 John Whitington

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

We present a novel framework for generating high-quality, animatable 4D avatar from a single image. While recent advances have shown promising results in 4D avatar creation, existing methods either require extensive multiview data or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fei Yin , Mallikarjun B R , Chun-Han Yao , Rafał Mantiuk , Varun Jampani

In this study, we propose AniPortrait, a novel framework for generating high-quality animation driven by audio and a reference portrait image. Our methodology is divided into two stages. Initially, we extract 3D intermediate representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huawei Wei , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

We have recently seen great progress in building photorealistic animatable full-body codec avatars, but generating high-fidelity animation of clothing is still difficult. To address these difficulties, we propose a method to build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Donglai Xiang , Fabian Prada , Timur Bagautdinov , Weipeng Xu , Yuan Dong , He Wen , Jessica Hodgins , Chenglei Wu