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Achieving controllable character animation that meets studio-grade standards remains challenging despite recent progress. Existing approaches can transfer motion from a driving video to a reference image, but often fail to preserve…

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Character image animation, which generates high-quality videos from a reference image and target pose sequence, has seen significant progress in recent years. However, most existing methods only apply to human figures, which usually do not…

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In text-to-image generation, producing a series of consistent contents that preserve the same identity is highly valuable for real-world applications. Although a few works have explored training-free methods to enhance the consistency of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mengyu Wang , Henghui Ding , Jianing Peng , Yao Zhao , Yunpeng Chen , Yunchao Wei

Animating various character drawings is an engaging visual content creation task. Given a single character drawing, existing animation methods are limited to flat 2D motions and thus lack 3D effects. An alternative solution is to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jie Zhou , Chufeng Xiao , Miu-Ling Lam , Hongbo Fu

Recent advancements in personalized Text-to-Video (T2V) generation have made significant strides in synthesizing character-specific content. However, these methods face a critical limitation: the inability to perform fine-grained control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Haopeng Fang , Di Qiu , Binjie Mao , He Tang

Millions of images of human faces are captured every single day; but these photographs portray the likeness of an individual with a fixed pose, expression, and appearance. Portrait image animation enables the post-capture adjustment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Connor Z. Lin , David B. Lindell , Eric R. Chan , Gordon Wetzstein

Character video synthesis aims to produce realistic videos of animatable characters within lifelike scenes. As a fundamental problem in the computer vision and graphics community, 3D works typically require multi-view captures for per-case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yifang Men , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

Video diffusion models substantially boost the productivity of artistic workflows with high-quality portrait video generative capacity. However, prevailing pipelines are primarily constrained to single-shot creation, while real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiahao Wang , Hualian Sheng , Sijia Cai , Weizhan Zhang , Caixia Yan , Yachuang Feng , Bing Deng , Jieping Ye

We propose a deep videorealistic 3D human character model displaying highly realistic shape, motion, and dynamic appearance learned in a new weakly supervised way from multi-view imagery. In contrast to previous work, our controllable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Weipeng Xu , Michael Zollhoefer , Gerard Pons-Moll , Christian Theobalt

We study the problem of directly deriving an initial human reenactment from a monocular video of a non-human character. Our goal is not to reconstruct the source character itself but to reinterpret its motion as a plausible and editable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Liuhan Chen , Lei Zhong , Jiewei Wang , Qin Shuai , Li Yuan , Leidong Fan , Qing Li , Kanglin Liu

Generating high-quality 3D characters from single images remains a significant challenge in digital content creation, particularly due to complex body poses and self-occlusion. In this paper, we present RCM (Rotate your Character Model), an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jin Wang , Jianxiang Lu , Comi Chen , Guangzheng Xu , Haoyu Yang , Peng Chen , Na Zhang , Yifan Xu , Longhuang Wu , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu , Ping Luo

Digital characters are central to modern media, yet generating character videos with long-duration, consistent multi-view appearance and expressive identity remains challenging. Existing approaches either provide insufficient context to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuhang Yang , Fan Zhang , Huaijin Pi , Shuai Guo , Guowei Xu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha

This paper proposes a novel application system for the generation of three-dimensional (3D) character animation driven by markerless human body motion capturing. The entire pipeline of the system consists of five stages: 1) the capturing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jinbao Wang , Ke Lu , Jian Xue

The demand for realistic and versatile character animation has surged, driven by its wide-ranging applications in various domains. However, the animation generation algorithms modeling human pose with 2D or 3D structures all face various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyu Sun , Zhoujie Fu , Bang Zhang , Guosheng Lin

Humans excel at forecasting the future dynamics of a scene given just a single image. Video generation models that can mimic this ability are an essential component for intelligent systems. Recent approaches have improved temporal coherence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Tong Shi , John H. Williamson , Paul Henderson

We introduce AvatarBooth, a novel method for generating high-quality 3D avatars using text prompts or specific images. Unlike previous approaches that can only synthesize avatars based on simple text descriptions, our method enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Yifei Zeng , Yuanxun Lu , Xinya Ji , Yao Yao , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jiapeng Tang , Kai Li , Chengxiang Yin , Liuhao Ge , Fei Jiang , Jiu Xu , Matthias Nießner , Christian Häne , Timur Bagautdinov , Egor Zakharov , Peihong Guo

This paper presents the three scripting commands and main functionalities of a novel character animation environment called CHASE. CHASE was developed for enabling inexperienced programmers, animators, artists, and students to animate in…

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Current learning-based subject customization approaches, predominantly relying on U-Net architectures, suffer from limited generalization ability and compromised image quality. Meanwhile, optimization-based methods require subject-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jiale Tao , Yanbing Zhang , Qixun Wang , Yiji Cheng , Haofan Wang , Xu Bai , Zhengguang Zhou , Ruihuang Li , Linqing Wang , Chunyu Wang , Qin Lin , Qinglin Lu

Recent advances in text-to-image models have opened new frontiers in human-centric generation. However, these models cannot be directly employed to generate images with consistent newly coined identities. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Qinghe Wang , Baolu Li , Xiaomin Li , Bing Cao , Liqian Ma , Huchuan Lu , Xu Jia