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Recent advancements in image synthesis are fueled by the advent of large-scale diffusion models. Yet, integrating realistic object visualizations seamlessly into new or existing backgrounds without extensive training remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Phillip Mueller , Jannik Wiese , Ioan Craciun , Lars Mikelsons

We introduce bounded generation as a generalized task to control video generation to synthesize arbitrary camera and subject motion based only on a given start and end frame. Our objective is to fully leverage the inherent generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Haiwen Feng , Zheng Ding , Zhihao Xia , Simon Niklaus , Victoria Abrevaya , Michael J. Black , Xuaner Zhang

This paper introduces a novel data-driven motion in-betweening system to reach target poses of characters by making use of phases variables learned by a Periodic Autoencoder. Our approach utilizes a mixture-of-experts neural network model,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Paul Starke , Sebastian Starke , Taku Komura , Frank Steinicke

Advances in video generation have significantly improved the realism and quality of created scenes. This has fueled interest in developing intuitive tools that let users leverage video generation as world simulators. Text-to-video (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zuhao Liu , Aleksandar Yanev , Ahmad Mahmood , Ivan Nikolov , Saman Motamed , Wei-Shi Zheng , Xi Wang , Lei Sun , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

The ability to generate complex and realistic human body animations at scale, while following specific artistic constraints, has been a fundamental goal for the game and animation industry for decades. Popular techniques include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Yi Zhou , Jingwan Lu , Connelly Barnes , Jimei Yang , Sitao Xiang , Hao li

Video Frame Interpolation synthesizes non-existent images between adjacent frames, with the aim of providing a smooth and consistent visual experience. Two approaches for solving this challenging task are optical flow based and kernel-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xi Li , Meng Cao , Yingying Tang , Scott Johnston , Zhendong Hong , Huimin Ma , Jiulong Shan

Achieving fine-grained and structurally sound controllability is a cornerstone of advanced visual generation. Existing part-based frameworks treat user-provided parts as an unordered set and therefore ignore their intrinsic spatial and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Junbin Zhang , Meng Cao , Feng Tan , Yikai Lin , Yuexian Zou

Deep image inpainting has made impressive progress with recent advances in image generation and processing algorithms. We claim that the performance of inpainting algorithms can be better judged by the generated structures and textures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Jitesh Jain , Yuqian Zhou , Ning Yu , Humphrey Shi

Visual-prompt-guided edit transfer aims to learn image transformations directly from example pairs, offering more precise and controllable editing than purely text-driven approaches. However, existing diffusion transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Lan Chen , Qi Mao , Yiren Song , Yuchao Gu , Siwei Ma

Deep generative models have shown success in automatically synthesizing missing image regions using surrounding context. However, users cannot directly decide what content to synthesize with such approaches. We propose an end-to-end network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Yinan Zhao , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Danna Gurari

This paper presents instruct-imagen, a model that tackles heterogeneous image generation tasks and generalizes across unseen tasks. We introduce *multi-modal instruction* for image generation, a task representation articulating a range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Hexiang Hu , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yu-Chuan Su , Wenhu Chen , Yandong Li , Kihyuk Sohn , Yang Zhao , Xue Ben , Boqing Gong , William Cohen , Ming-Wei Chang , Xuhui Jia

Our ability to sample realistic natural images, particularly faces, has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, yet our ability to exert fine-tuned control over the generative process has lagged behind. If this new technology is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Marek Kowalski , Stephan J. Garbin , Virginia Estellers , Tadas Baltrušaitis , Matthew Johnson , Jamie Shotton

In-context image generation and editing (ICGE) enables users to specify visual concepts through interleaved image-text prompts, demanding precise understanding and faithful execution of user intent. Although recent unified multimodal models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Runze He , Yiji Cheng , Tiankai Hang , Zhimin Li , Yu Xu , Zijin Yin , Shiyi Zhang , Wenxun Dai , Penghui Du , Ao Ma , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu , Jizhong Han , Jiao Dai

We propose a general way to integrate procedural knowledge of a domain into deep learning models. We apply it to the case of video prediction, building on top of object-centric deep models and show that this leads to a better performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Patrick Takenaka , Johannes Maucher , Marco F. Huber

Structure-guided image completion aims to inpaint a local region of an image according to an input guidance map from users. While such a task enables many practical applications for interactive editing, existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haitian Zheng , Zhe Lin , Jingwan Lu , Scott Cohen , Eli Shechtman , Connelly Barnes , Jianming Zhang , Qing Liu , Yuqian Zhou , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Jiebo Luo

Motion in-betweening is a crucial tool for animators, enabling intricate control over pose-level details in each keyframe. Recent machine learning solutions for motion in-betweening rely on complex models, incorporating skeleton-aware…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Elly Akhoundi , Hung Yu Ling , Anup Anand Deshmukh , Judith Butepage

Visual navigation is fundamental to autonomous systems, yet generating reliable trajectories in cluttered and uncertain environments remains a core challenge. Recent generative models promise end-to-end synthesis, but their reliance on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xubo Luo , Aodi Wu , Haodong Han , Xue Wan , Wei Zhang , Leizheng Shu , Ruisuo Wang

Temporal consistency is crucial for extending image processing pipelines to the video domain, which is often enforced with flow-based warping error over adjacent frames. Yet for human video synthesis, such scheme is less reliable due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Lingbo Yang , Zhanning Gao , Peiran Ren , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Incorporating camera intrinsics into video generation models offers a principled way to control not only scene dynamics but also the imaging process that governs visual appearance. Prior work has primarily focused on extrinsic control, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Debabrata Mandal , Zhihan Peng , Yujie Wang , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Video inbetweening aims to synthesize intermediate video sequences conditioned on the given start and end frames. Current state-of-the-art methods primarily extend large-scale pre-trained Image-to-Video Diffusion Models (I2V-DMs) by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Liuhan Chen , Xiaodong Cun , Xiaoyu Li , Xianyi He , Shenghai Yuan , Jie Chen , Ying Shan , Li Yuan