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In this paper, we present a diffusion model-based framework for animating people from a single image for a given target 3D motion sequence. Our approach has two core components: a) learning priors about invisible parts of the human body and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Boyi Li , Junming Chen , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Yossi Gandelsman , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

We present a data-driven framework for unsupervised human motion retargeting that animates a target subject with the motion of a source subject. Our method is correspondence-free, requiring neither spatial correspondences between the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Rim Rekik , Mathieu Marsot , Anne-Hélène Olivier , Jean-Sébastien Franco , Stefanie Wuhrer

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 human videos with realistic and controllable motions is a challenging task. While existing methods can generate visually compelling videos, they lack separate control over four key video elements: foreground subject, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jingyun Liang , Jingkai Zhou , Shikai Li , Chenjie Cao , Lei Sun , Yichen Qian , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

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

Character image animation, which synthesizes videos of reference characters driven by pose sequences, has advanced rapidly but remains largely limited to single-human settings. Existing methods struggle to generalize to multi-humanoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xirui Hu , Yanbo Ding , Jiahao Wang , Tingting Shi , Yali Wang , Guo Zhi Zhi , Weizhan Zhang

We address the computational problem of novel human pose synthesis. Given an image of a person and a desired pose, we produce a depiction of that person in that pose, retaining the appearance of both the person and background. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Guha Balakrishnan , Amy Zhao , Adrian V. Dalca , Fredo Durand , John Guttag

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

Recent character image animation methods based on diffusion models, such as Animate Anyone, have made significant progress in generating consistent and generalizable character animations. However, these approaches fail to produce reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Li Hu , Guangyuan Wang , Zhen Shen , Xin Gao , Dechao Meng , Lian Zhuo , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

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

Human motion generation aims to generate natural human pose sequences and shows immense potential for real-world applications. Substantial progress has been made recently in motion data collection technologies and generation methods, laying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Dongwoo Ro , Hai Ci , Jinlu Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

Human image animation involves generating videos from a character photo, allowing user control and unlocking the potential for video and movie production. While recent approaches yield impressive results using high-quality training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhenzhi Wang , Yixuan Li , Yanhong Zeng , Youqing Fang , Yuwei Guo , Wenran Liu , Jing Tan , Kai Chen , Tianfan Xue , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin

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

Image animation consists of generating a video sequence so that an object in a source image is animated according to the motion of a driving video. Our framework addresses this problem without using any annotation or prior information about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Stéphane Lathuilière , Sergey Tulyakov , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Treating human motion and camera trajectory generation separately overlooks a core principle of cinematography: the tight interplay between actor performance and camera work in the screen space. In this paper, we are the first to cast this…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Robin Courant , Xi Wang , David Loiseaux , Marc Christie , Vicky Kalogeiton

In this paper we present a new deep learning-driven approach to image-based synthesis of animations involving humanoid characters. Unlike previous deep approaches to image-based animation our method makes no assumptions on the type of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 John Kanji , David I. W. Levin

Character animation is a transformative field in computer graphics and vision, enabling dynamic and realistic video animations from static images. Despite advancements, maintaining appearance consistency in animations remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaoyu Jin , Zunnan Xu , Mingwen Ou , Wenming Yang

3D animations are an effective method to learn about complex dynamic phenomena, such as mesoscale biological processes. The animators' goals are to convey a sense of the scene's overall complexity while, at the same time, visually guiding…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Johannes Eschner , Peter Mindek , Manuela Waldner

Human motion generation involves creating natural sequences of human body poses, widely used in gaming, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction. It aims to produce lifelike virtual characters with realistic movements, enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiayi Zhao , Dongdong Weng , Qiuxin Du , Zeyu Tian

We revisit human motion synthesis, a task useful in various real world applications, in this paper. Whereas a number of methods have been developed previously for this task, they are often limited in two aspects: focusing on the poses while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jingbo Wang , Sijie Yan , Bo Dai , Dahua LIn