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Controllable human image animation aims to generate videos from reference images using driving videos. Due to the limited control signals provided by sparse guidance (e.g., skeleton pose), recent works have attempted to introduce additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Hongxiang Li , Yaowei Li , Yuhang Yang , Junjie Cao , Zhihong Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Long Chen

We propose X-Portrait, an innovative conditional diffusion model tailored for generating expressive and temporally coherent portrait animation. Specifically, given a single portrait as appearance reference, we aim to animate it with motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 You Xie , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , Chao Wang , Yichun Shi , Linjie Luo

Interactive applications demand believable characters that respond naturally to dynamic environments. Traditional character animation techniques often struggle to handle arbitrary situations, leading to a growing trend of dynamically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jose Luis Ponton , Sheldon Andrews , Carlos Andujar , Nuria Pelechano

Text-editable and pose-controllable character video generation is a challenging but prevailing topic with practical applications. However, existing approaches mainly focus on single-object video generation with pose guidance, ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Beiyuan Zhang , Yue Ma , Chunlei Fu , Xinyang Song , Zhenan Sun , Ziqiang Li

Portrait animation from a single source image and a driving video is a long-standing problem. Recent approaches tend to adopt diffusion-based image/video generation models for realistic and expressive animation. However, none of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuxiang Shi , Zhe Li , Yanwen Wang , Hao Zhu , Xun Cao , Ligang Liu

Recent advances in diffusion models have greatly improved pose-driven character animation. However, existing methods are limited to spatially aligned reference-pose pairs with matched skeletal structures. Handling reference-pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Shijun Shi , Jing Xu , Zhihang Li , Chunli Peng , Xiaoda Yang , Lijing Lu , Kai Hu , Jiangning Zhang

In this paper, we propose \textbf{CharacterShot}, a controllable and consistent 4D character animation framework that enables any individual designer to create dynamic 3D characters (i.e., 4D character animation) from a single reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junyao Gao , Jiaxing Li , Wenran Liu , Yanhong Zeng , Fei Shen , Kai Chen , Yanan Sun , Cairong Zhao

Image-to-video (I2V) generation seeks to produce realistic motion sequences from a single reference image. Although recent methods exhibit strong temporal consistency, they often struggle when dealing with complex, non-repetitive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Aref Miri Rekavandi , Zinuo Li , Qiuhong Ke , Hamid Laga

This paper presents DreamDance, a novel character art animation framework capable of producing stable, consistent character and scene motion conditioned on precise camera trajectories. To achieve this, we re-formulate the animation task as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jiaxu Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Xin Chen , Wei Zuo , Gang Yu , Guosheng Lin , Zhigang Tu

We present AnimaX, a feed-forward 3D animation framework that bridges the motion priors of video diffusion models with the controllable structure of skeleton-based animation. Traditional motion synthesis methods are either restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zehuan Huang , Haoran Feng , Yangtian Sun , Yuanchen Guo , Yanpei Cao , Lu Sheng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wenhao Yan , Sheng Ye , Zhuoyi Yang , Jiayan Teng , ZhenHui Dong , Kairui Wen , Xiaotao Gu , Yong-Jin Liu , Jie Tang

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Recent diffusion-based human image animation techniques have demonstrated impressive success in synthesizing videos that faithfully follow a given reference identity and a sequence of desired movement poses. Despite this, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Changxin Gao , Jiayu Wang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Yingya Zhang , Luxin Yan , Nong Sang

Recent advancements in human video synthesis have enabled the generation of high-quality videos through the application of stable diffusion models. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on animating solely the human element…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Mengyang Feng , Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui

Character image animation has rapidly advanced with the rise of digital humans. However, existing methods rely largely on 2D-rendered pose images for motion guidance, which limits generalization and discards essential 4D information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanbo Ding , Xirui Hu , Zhizhi Guo , Yan Zhang , Xinrui Wang , Zhixiang He , Chi Zhang , Yali Wang , Xuelong Li

We propose Uni-Animator, a novel Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based framework for unified image and video sketch colorization. Existing sketch colorization methods struggle to unify image and video tasks, suffering from imprecise color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xinyuan Chen , Yao Xu , Shaowen Wang , Pengjie Song , Bowen Deng

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Recent pose-transfer methods aim to generate temporally consistent and fully controllable videos of human action where the motion from a reference video is reenacted by a new identity. We evaluate three state-of-the-art pose-transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

We introduce Wan-Animate, a unified framework for character animation and replacement. Given a character image and a reference video, Wan-Animate can animate the character by precisely replicating the expressions and movements of the…

Character posing is of interest in computer animation. It is difficult due to its dependence on inverse kinematics (IK) techniques and articulate property of human characters . To solve the IK problem, classical methods that rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ranch Y. Q. Lai , Pong C. Yuen , K. W. Lee , J. H. Lai