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In this paper, we propose \textbf{CharacterShot}, a controllable and consistent 4D character animation framework that enables any individual designer to create dynamic 3D characters (i.e., 4D character animation) from a single reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junyao Gao , Jiaxing Li , Wenran Liu , Yanhong Zeng , Fei Shen , Kai Chen , Yanan Sun , Cairong Zhao

We introduce FactorPortrait, a video diffusion method for controllable portrait animation that enables lifelike synthesis from disentangled control signals of facial expressions, head movement, and camera viewpoints. Given a single portrait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jiapeng Tang , Kai Li , Chengxiang Yin , Liuhao Ge , Fei Jiang , Jiu Xu , Matthias Nießner , Christian Häne , Timur Bagautdinov , Egor Zakharov , Peihong Guo

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

Portrait Animation aims to synthesize a lifelike video from a single source image, using it as an appearance reference, with motion (i.e., facial expressions and head pose) derived from a driving video, audio, text, or generation. Instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jianzhu Guo , Dingyun Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

Video diffusion models substantially boost the productivity of artistic workflows with high-quality portrait video generative capacity. However, prevailing pipelines are primarily constrained to single-shot creation, while real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiahao Wang , Hualian Sheng , Sijia Cai , Weizhan Zhang , Caixia Yan , Yachuang Feng , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye

Audio-driven talking face generation is a challenging task in digital communication. Despite significant progress in the area, most existing methods concentrate on audio-lip synchronization, often overlooking aspects such as visual quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Fatemeh Nazarieh , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Recent advancement in personalized image generation have unveiled the intriguing capability of pre-trained text-to-image models on learning identity information from a collection of portrait images. However, existing solutions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yang Liu , Cheng Yu , Lei Shang , Yongyi He , Ziheng Wu , Xingjun Wang , Chao Xu , Haoyu Xie , Weida Wang , Yuze Zhao , Lin Zhu , Chen Cheng , Weitao Chen , Yuan Yao , Wenmeng Zhou , Jiaqi Xu , Qiang Wang , Yingda Chen , Xuansong Xie , Baigui Sun

We present Follow-Your-Emoji, a diffusion-based framework for portrait animation, which animates a reference portrait with target landmark sequences. The main challenge of portrait animation is to preserve the identity of the reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yue Ma , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Wei Liu , Qifeng Chen

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

Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guian Fang , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advancements in personalized image generation using diffusion models have been noteworthy. However, existing methods suffer from inefficiencies due to the requirement for subject-specific fine-tuning. This computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xu Peng , Junwei Zhu , Boyuan Jiang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Wei Lin , Taisong Jin , Chengjie Wang , Rongrong Ji

We propose X-Portrait, an innovative conditional diffusion model tailored for generating expressive and temporally coherent portrait animation. Specifically, given a single portrait as appearance reference, we aim to animate it with motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Linjie Luo

Current diffusion-based portrait animation models predominantly focus on enhancing visual quality and expression realism, while overlooking generation latency and real-time performance, which restricts their application range in the live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhiyuan Li , Chi-Man Pun , Chen Fang , Jue Wang , Xiaodong Cun

Existing text-to-video methods struggle to transfer motion smoothly from a reference object to a target object with significant differences in appearance or structure between them. To address this challenge, we introduce MotionShot, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yanchen Liu , Yanan Sun , Zhening Xing , Junyao Gao , Kai Chen , Wenjie Pei

Recent advancements in character video synthesis still depend on extensive fine-tuning or complex 3D modeling processes, which can restrict accessibility and hinder real-time applicability. To address these challenges, we propose a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Di Qiu , Zheng Chen , Rui Wang , Mingyuan Fan , Changqian Yu , Junshi Huang , Xiang Wen

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

We present Follow-Your-Emoji-Faster, an efficient diffusion-based framework for freestyle portrait animation driven by facial landmarks. The main challenges in this task are preserving the identity of the reference portrait, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yue Ma , Zexuan Yan , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen

The area of portrait image animation, propelled by audio input, has witnessed notable progress in the generation of lifelike and dynamic portraits. Conventional methods are limited to utilizing either audios or facial key points to drive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zhiyuan Chen , Jiajiong Cao , Zhiquan Chen , Yuming Li , Chenguang Ma

Face stylization refers to the transformation of a face into a specific portrait style. However, current methods require the use of example-based adaptation approaches to fine-tune pre-trained generative models so that they demand lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jin Liu , Huaibo Huang , Chao Jin , Ran He

We present a novel approach that enables photo-realistic re-animation of portrait videos using only an input video. In contrast to existing approaches that are restricted to manipulations of facial expressions only, we are the first to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Ayush Tewari , Weipeng Xu , Justus Thies , Matthias Nießner , Patrick Pérez , Christian Richardt , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Theobalt
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