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We present a deep learning-based framework for portrait reenactment from a single picture of a target (one-shot) and a video of a driving subject. Existing facial reenactment methods suffer from identity mismatch and produce inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Sitao Xiang , Yuming Gu , Pengda Xiang , Mingming He , Koki Nagano , Haiwei Chen , Hao Li

Training a generative model on a single human skeletal motion sequence without being bound to a specific kinematic tree has drawn significant attention from the animation community. Unlike text-to-motion generation, single-shot models allow…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Eleni Tselepi , Spyridon Thermos , Gerasimos Potamianos

Cinematic storytelling is profoundly shaped by the artful manipulation of photographic elements such as depth of field and exposure. These effects are crucial in conveying mood and creating aesthetic appeal. However, controlling these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Huiqiang Sun , Liao Shen , Zhan Peng , Kun Wang , Size Wu , Yuhang Zang , Tianqi Liu , Zihao Huang , Xingyu Zeng , Zhiguo Cao , Wei Li , Chen Change Loy

We present MotionPersona, a novel real-time character controller that allows users to characterize a character by specifying attributes such as physical traits, mental states, and demographics, and projects these properties into the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mingyi Shi , Wei Liu , Jidong Mei , Wangpok Tse , Rui Chen , Xuelin Chen , Taku Komura

Reconstructing personalized animatable head avatars has significant implications in the fields of AR/VR. Existing methods for achieving explicit face control of 3D Morphable Models (3DMM) typically rely on multi-view images or videos of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haoyu Ma , Tong Zhang , Shanlin Sun , Xiangyi Yan , Kun Han , Xiaohui Xie

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

Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guian Fang , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

One-shot 3D talking portrait generation aims to reconstruct a 3D avatar from an unseen image, and then animate it with a reference video or audio to generate a talking portrait video. The existing methods fail to simultaneously achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zhenhui Ye , Tianyun Zhong , Yi Ren , Jiaqi Yang , Weichuang Li , Jiawei Huang , Ziyue Jiang , Jinzheng He , Rongjie Huang , Jinglin Liu , Chen Zhang , Xiang Yin , Zejun Ma , Zhou Zhao

Creating digital avatars from textual prompts has long been a desirable yet challenging task. Despite the promising results achieved with 2D diffusion priors, current methods struggle to create high-quality and consistent animated avatars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhenglin Zhou , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Many deep learning based 3D face reconstruction methods have been proposed recently, however, few of them have applications in games. Current game character customization systems either require players to manually adjust considerable face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jiangke Lin , Yi Yuan , Zhengxia Zou

Recent advancements in 3D generation are predominantly propelled by improvements in 3D-aware image diffusion models. These models are pretrained on Internet-scale image data and fine-tuned on massive 3D data, offering the capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zeyu Yang , Zijie Pan , Chun Gu , Li Zhang

Video world models aim to simulate dynamic, real-world environments, yet existing methods struggle to provide unified and precise control over camera and multi-object motion, as videos inherently capture dynamics in the projected 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sixiao Zheng , Minghao Yin , Wenbo Hu , Xiaoyu Li , Ying Shan , Yanwei Fu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Martin Bauer , Markus Eslitzbichler , Markus Grasmair

Estimating 3D poses of multiple humans in real-time is a classic but still challenging task in computer vision. Its major difficulty lies in the ambiguity in cross-view association of 2D poses and the huge state space when there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Long Chen , Haizhou Ai , Rui Chen , Zijie Zhuang , Shuang Liu

Existing techniques for dynamic scene reconstruction from multiple wide-baseline cameras primarily focus on reconstruction in controlled environments, with fixed calibrated cameras and strong prior constraints. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Armin Mustafa , Marco Volino , Hansung Kim , Jean-Yves Guillemaut , Adrian Hilton

We present a novel task: text-to-3D sketch animation, which aims to bring freeform sketches to life in dynamic 3D space. Unlike prior works focused on photorealistic content generation, we target sparse, stylized, and view-consistent 3D…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hao Chen , Jiaqi Wang , Yonggang Qi , Ke Li , Kaiyue Pang , Yi-Zhe Song

Character image animation aims to synthesize high-fidelity videos by transferring motion from a driving sequence to a static reference image. Despite recent advancements, existing methods suffer from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mingshuang Luo , Shuang Liang , Zhengkun Rong , Yuxuan Luo , Tianshu Hu , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Yong Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

The current state-of-the-art Diffusion model has demonstrated excellent results in generating images. However, the images are monotonous and are mostly the result of the distribution of images of people in the training set, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianyu Chen

We introduce Diff4Splat, a feed-forward method that synthesizes controllable and explicit 4D scenes from a single image. Our approach unifies the generative priors of video diffusion models with geometry and motion constraints learned from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Panwang Pan , Chenguo Lin , Jingjing Zhao , Chenxin Li , Yuchen Lin , Haopeng Li , Honglei Yan , Kairun Wen , Yunlong Lin , Yixuan Yuan , Yadong Mu

Traditional methods for constructing high-quality, personalized head avatars from monocular videos demand extensive face captures and training time, posing a significant challenge for scalability. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhixuan Yu , Ziqian Bai , Abhimitra Meka , Feitong Tan , Qiangeng Xu , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Hyun Soo Park , Yinda Zhang