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Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Human video generation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving task that aims to synthesize 2D human body video sequences with generative models given control conditions such as text, audio, and pose. With the potential for wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Wentao Lei , Jinting Wang , Fengji Ma , Guanjie Huang , Li Liu

Synthesizing 3D human motion plays an important role in many graphics applications as well as understanding human activity. While many efforts have been made on generating realistic and natural human motion, most approaches neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jiashun Wang , Huazhe Xu , Jingwei Xu , Sifei Liu , Xiaolong Wang

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly pushed the state-of-the-art in photorealistic video animation given a single image. In this paper, we extrapolate those advances to the 3D domain, by studying 3D image-to-video translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jiali Zheng , Stylianos Ploumpis , Giorgos Bouritsas , Evangelos Ververas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Traditional 3D content creation tools empower users to bring their imagination to life by giving them direct control over a scene's geometry, appearance, motion, and camera path. Creating computer-generated videos, however, is a tedious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shengqu Cai , Duygu Ceylan , Matheus Gadelha , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Tuanfeng Yang Wang , Gordon Wetzstein

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

With captivating visual effects, stylized 3D character animation has gained widespread use in cinematic production, advertising, social media, and the potential development of virtual reality (VR) non-player characters (NPCs). However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xinwu Ye , Jun-Hsiang Yao , Jielin Feng , Shuhong Mei , Xingyu Lan , Siming Chen

Generating human videos from a single image while ensuring high visual quality and precise control is a challenging task, especially in complex scenarios involving multiple individuals and interactions with objects. Existing methods, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Yuwei Guo , Dahua Lin , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai

Current 3D human animation methods struggle to achieve photorealism: kinematics-based approaches lack non-rigid dynamics (e.g., clothing dynamics), while methods that leverage video diffusion priors can synthesize non-rigid motion but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qi Sun , Can Wang , Jiaxiang Shang , Yingchun Liu , Jing Liao

We propose a novel representation of virtual humans for highly realistic real-time animation and rendering in 3D applications. We learn pose dependent appearance and geometry from highly accurate dynamic mesh sequences obtained from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Wieland Morgenstern , Milena T. Bagdasarian , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Markerless motion capture is an active research in 3D virtualization. In proposed work we presented a system for markerless motion capture for 3D human character animation, paper presents a survey on motion and skeleton tracking techniques…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Ashish Shingade , Archana Ghotkar

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…

Human motion synthesis is an important task in computer graphics and computer vision. While focusing on various conditioning signals such as text, action class, or audio to guide the generation process, most existing methods utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Kebing Xue , Hyewon Seo

We propose a framework to learn a structured latent space to represent 4D human body motion, where each latent vector encodes a full motion of the whole 3D human shape. On one hand several data-driven skeletal animation models exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Mathieu Marsot , Stefanie Wuhrer , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Stephane Durocher

We present a novel framework for animating humans in 3D scenes using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a neural scene representation that has recently achieved state-of-the-art photorealistic results for novel-view synthesis but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Aymen Mir , Jian Wang , Riza Alp Guler , Chuan Guo , Gerard Pons-Moll , Bing Zhou

\textbf{Synthetic human dynamics} aims to generate photorealistic videos of human subjects performing expressive, intention-driven motions. However, current approaches face two core challenges: (1) \emph{geometric inconsistency} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Weiqi Li , Zehao Zhang , Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang

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

Upsampling videos of human activity is an interesting yet challenging task with many potential applications ranging from gaming to entertainment and sports broadcasting. The main difficulty in synthesizing video frames in this setting stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Hsuan-I Ho , Xu Chen , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

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

Human motion synthesis in complex scenes presents a fundamental challenge, extending beyond conventional Text-to-Motion tasks by requiring the integration of diverse modalities such as static environments, movable objects, natural language…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zichen Geng , Zeeshan Hayder , Wei Liu , Ajmal Mian