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Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

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Pose-guided human image animation aims to synthesize realistic videos of a reference character driven by a sequence of poses. While diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable success, most existing approaches are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yingcheng Hu , Haowen Gong , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu , Songhua Liu

Recent advances in video generation models has significantly accelerated video generation and related downstream tasks. Among these, video stylization holds important research value in areas such as immersive applications and artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hengye Lyu , Zisu Li , Yue Hong , Yueting Weng , Jiaxin Shi , Hanwang Zhang , Chen Liang

Most colorization models condition only on a single reference, typically the first frame of the scene. However, this approach ignores other sources of conditional data, such as character sheets, background images, or arbitrary colorized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Bryan Constantine Sadihin , Yihao Meng , Michael Hua Wang , Matteo Jiahao Chen , Hang Su

While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Most existing video colorization techniques operate on a frame-by-frame basis, often overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Rory Ward , Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , John G. Breslin , Peter Corcoran

Despite the existence of numerous colorization methods, several limitations still exist, such as lack of user interaction, inflexibility in local colorization, unnatural color rendering, insufficient color variation, and color overflow. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Zhexin Liang , Zhaochen Li , Shangchen Zhou , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

The production of 2D animation follows an industry-standard workflow, encompassing four essential stages: character design, keyframe animation, in-betweening, and coloring. Our research focuses on reducing the labor costs in the above…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yihao Meng , Hao Ouyang , Hanlin Wang , Qiuyu Wang , Wen Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Zhiheng Liu , Yujun Shen , Huamin Qu

This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhongcong Xu , Jianfeng Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jia-Wei Liu , Chenxu Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Mike Zheng Shou

Video colorization is a challenging task that involves inferring plausible and temporally consistent colors for grayscale frames. In this paper, we present ColorDiffuser, an adaptation of a pre-trained text-to-image latent diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Hanyuan Liu , Minshan Xie , Jinbo Xing , Chengze Li , Tien-Tsin Wong

In e-commerce and digital marketing, generating high-fidelity human-product demonstration videos is important for effective product presentation. However, most existing frameworks either fail to preserve the identities of both humans and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Lizhen Wang , Zhurong Xia , Tianshu Hu , Pengrui Wang , Pengfei Wei , Zerong Zheng , Ming Zhou , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

Line art colorization plays a crucial role in hand-drawn animation production, where digital artists manually colorize segments using a paint bucket tool, guided by RGB values from character color design sheets. This process, often called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuekun Dai , Qinyue Li , Shangchen Zhou , Yihang Luo , Chongyi Li , Chen Change Loy

We propose DiTFlow, a method for transferring the motion of a reference video to a newly synthesized one, designed specifically for Diffusion Transformers (DiT). We first process the reference video with a pre-trained DiT to analyze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Alexander Pondaven , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Sergey Tulyakov , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati

Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Nan Chen , Mengqi Huang , Yihao Meng , Zhendong Mao

Diffusion models have shown great promise in synthesizing visually appealing images. However, it remains challenging to condition the synthesis at a fine-grained level, for instance, synthesizing image pixels following some generic color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ka Chun Shum , Binh-Son Hua , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Motion transfer enables controllable video generation by transferring temporal dynamics from a reference video to synthesize a new video conditioned on a target caption. However, existing Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Samuel Teodoro , Yun Chen , Agus Gunawan , Soo Ye Kim , Jihyong Oh , Munchurl Kim

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

Greyscale image colorization for applications in image restoration has seen significant improvements in recent years. Many of these techniques that use learning-based methods struggle to effectively colorize sparse inputs. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Harrish Thasarathan , Kamyar Nazeri , Mehran Ebrahimi

Video generation has drawn significant interest recently, pushing the development of large-scale models capable of producing realistic videos with coherent motion. Due to memory constraints, these models typically generate short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Idan Kligvasser , Regev Cohen , George Leifman , Ehud Rivlin , Michael Elad

Image fusion aims to blend complementary information from multiple sensing modalities, yet existing approaches remain limited in robustness, adaptability, and controllability. Most current fusion networks are tailored to specific tasks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiayang Li , Chengjie Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

Recent advances in AI-generated content (AIGC) have significantly accelerated animation production. To produce engaging animations, it is essential to generate coherent multi-shot video clips with narrative scripts and character references.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lu Qiu , Yizhuo Li , Yuying Ge , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xihui Liu