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Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the- art performance in recognizing human activities, but often rely on utilizing background cues present in typical computer vision datasets that predominantly have a stationary camera. If these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Fahimeh Rezazadegan , Sareh Shirazi , Ben Upcroft , Michael Milford

3D human reconstruction and animation are long-standing topics in computer graphics and vision. However, existing methods typically rely on sophisticated dense-view capture and/or time-consuming per-subject optimization procedures. To…

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In this paper, we present Motion-X, a large-scale 3D expressive whole-body motion dataset. Existing motion datasets predominantly contain body-only poses, lacking facial expressions, hand gestures, and fine-grained pose descriptions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jing Lin , Ailing Zeng , Shunlin Lu , Yuanhao Cai , Ruimao Zhang , Haoqian Wang , Lei Zhang

We present Vid2Avatar-Pro, a method to create photorealistic and animatable 3D human avatars from monocular in-the-wild videos. Building a high-quality avatar that supports animation with diverse poses from a monocular video is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chen Guo , Junxuan Li , Yash Kant , Yaser Sheikh , Shunsuke Saito , Chen Cao

Existing methodologies for animating portrait images face significant challenges, particularly in handling non-frontal perspectives, rendering dynamic objects around the portrait, and generating immersive, realistic backgrounds. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jiahao Cui , Hui Li , Yun Zhan , Hanlin Shang , Kaihui Cheng , Yuqi Ma , Shan Mu , Hang Zhou , Jingdong Wang , Siyu Zhu

Personalized image generation holds great promise in assisting humans in everyday work and life due to its impressive ability to creatively generate personalized content across various contexts. However, current evaluations either are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yuang Peng , Yuxin Cui , Haomiao Tang , Zekun Qi , Runpei Dong , Jing Bai , Chunrui Han , Zheng Ge , Xiangyu Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

Controllable character animation has advanced rapidly in recent years, yet multi-character animation remains underexplored. As the number of characters grows, multi-character reference encoding becomes more susceptible to latent identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenyu Xie , Ji Xia , Michael Kampffmeyer , Panwen Hu , Zehua Ma , Yujian Zheng , Jing Wang , Zheng Chong , Xujie Zhang , Xianhang Cheng , Xiaodan Liang , Hao Li

We introduce LIA-X, a novel interpretable portrait animator designed to transfer facial dynamics from a driving video to a source portrait with fine-grained control. LIA-X is an autoencoder that models motion transfer as a linear navigation…

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Although human reconstruction typically results in human-specific avatars, recent 3D scene reconstruction techniques utilizing pixel-aligned features show promise in generalizing to new scenes. Applying these techniques to human avatar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jinlong Fan , Jing Zhang , Zhi Hou , Dacheng Tao

Advancements in neural implicit representations and differentiable rendering have markedly improved the ability to learn animatable 3D avatars from sparse multi-view RGB videos. However, current methods that map observation space to…

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The paper introduces AniTalker, an innovative framework designed to generate lifelike talking faces from a single portrait. Unlike existing models that primarily focus on verbal cues such as lip synchronization and fail to capture the…

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Pose transfer of human videos aims to generate a high fidelity video of a target person imitating actions of a source person. A few studies have made great progress either through image translation with deep latent features or neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yang-tian Sun , Hao-zhi Huang , Xuan Wang , Yu-kun Lai , Wei Liu , Lin Gao

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…

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Accurate estimation of 3D human motion from monocular video requires modeling both kinematics (body motion without physical forces) and dynamics (motion with physical forces). To demonstrate this, we present SimPoE, a Simulation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Ye Yuan , Shih-En Wei , Tomas Simon , Kris Kitani , Jason Saragih

Photorealistic telepresence requires both high-fidelity body modeling and faithful driving to enable dynamically synthesized appearance that is indistinguishable from reality. In this work, we propose an end-to-end framework that addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Edoardo Remelli , Timur Bagautdinov , Shunsuke Saito , Tomas Simon , Chenglei Wu , Shih-En Wei , Kaiwen Guo , Zhe Cao , Fabian Prada , Jason Saragih , Yaser Sheikh

Human motion generation has shown great advances thanks to the recent diffusion models trained on large-scale motion capture data. Most of existing works, however, currently target animation of isolated people in empty scenes. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yangsong Zhang , Abdul Ahad Butt , Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev

Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Felix Taubner , Ruihang Zhang , Mathieu Tuli , Sherwin Bahmani , David B. Lindell

Existing visual trackers mainly operate in a non-interactive, fire-and-forget manner, making them impractical for real-world scenarios that require human-in-the-loop adaptation. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Interactive…

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Human video generation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving task that aims to synthesize 2D human body video sequences with generative models given control conditions such as text, audio, and pose. With the potential for wide-ranging…

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