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The field of physics-based animation is gaining importance due to the increasing demand for realism in video games and films, and has recently seen wide adoption of data-driven techniques, such as deep reinforcement learning (RL), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Tingwu Wang , Yunrong Guo , Maria Shugrina , Sanja Fidler

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.…

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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…

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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

Learning human motion based on a time-dependent input signal presents a challenging yet impactful task with various applications. The goal of this task is to generate or estimate human movement that consistently reflects the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Quang Nguyen , Tri Le , Baoru Huang , Minh Nhat Vu , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

Human personality decides various aspects of their daily life and working behaviors. Since personality traits are relatively stable over time and unique for each subject, previous approaches frequently infer personality from a single frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Fang Li

Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

Recent advancements in video generation have achieved impressive motion realism, yet they often overlook character-driven storytelling, a crucial task for automated film, animation generation. We introduce Talking Characters, a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Cong Wei , Bo Sun , Haoyu Ma , Ji Hou , Felix Juefei-Xu , Zecheng He , Xiaoliang Dai , Luxin Zhang , Kunpeng Li , Tingbo Hou , Animesh Sinha , Peter Vajda , Wenhu Chen

Simulating human profiles by instilling personas into large language models (LLMs) is rapidly transforming research in agentic behavioral simulation, LLM personalization, and human-AI alignment. However, most existing synthetic personas…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhen Wang , Yufan Zhou , Zhongyan Luo , Lyumanshan Ye , Adam Wood , Man Yao , Saab Mansour , Luoshang Pan

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…

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Motions of virtual characters in movies or video games are typically generated by recording actors using motion capturing methods. Animations generated this way often need postprocessing, such as improving the periodicity of cyclic…

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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

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

Recent progress in stochastic motion prediction, i.e., predicting multiple possible future human motions given a single past pose sequence, has led to producing truly diverse future motions and even providing control over the motion of some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann

Accurate estimation of 3D human motion from monocular video requires modeling both kinematics (body motion without physical forces) and dynamics (motion with physical forces). To demonstrate this, we present SimPoE, a Simulation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Ye Yuan , Shih-En Wei , Tomas Simon , Kris Kitani , Jason Saragih

We present a deep learning method for composite and task-driven motion control for physically simulated characters. In contrast to existing data-driven approaches using reinforcement learning that imitate full-body motions, we learn…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Pei Xu , Xiumin Shang , Victor Zordan , Ioannis Karamouzas

We address the longstanding challenge of producing flexible, realistic humanoid character controllers that can perform diverse whole-body tasks involving object interactions. This challenge is central to a variety of fields, from graphics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Josh Merel , Saran Tunyasuvunakool , Arun Ahuja , Yuval Tassa , Leonard Hasenclever , Vu Pham , Tom Erez , Greg Wayne , Nicolas Heess

Can we make virtual characters in a scene interact with their surrounding objects through simple instructions? Is it possible to synthesize such motion plausibly with a diverse set of objects and instructions? Inspired by these questions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Anindita Ghosh , Rishabh Dabral , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

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…

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Generating human-human motion interactions conditioned on textual descriptions is a very useful application in many areas such as robotics, gaming, animation, and the metaverse. Alongside this utility also comes a great difficulty in…

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