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Significant progress has been made in audio-driven human animation, while most existing methods focus mainly on facial movements, limiting their ability to create full-body animations with natural synchronization and fluidity. They also…

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Human Video Motion Transfer (HVMT) aims to, given an image of a source person, generate his/her video that imitates the motion of the driving person. Existing methods for HVMT mainly exploit Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Quanwei Yang , Xinchen Liu , Wu Liu , Hongtao Xie , Xiaoyan Gu , Lingyun Yu , Yongdong Zhang

We present GaussianAvatar, an efficient approach to creating realistic human avatars with dynamic 3D appearances from a single video. We start by introducing animatable 3D Gaussians to explicitly represent humans in various poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Liangxiao Hu , Hongwen Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Boyao Zhou , Boning Liu , Shengping Zhang , Liqiang Nie

We present a unified controllable video generation approach AnimateAnything that facilitates precise and consistent video manipulation across various conditions, including camera trajectories, text prompts, and user motion annotations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Guojun Lei , Chi Wang , Hong Li , Rong Zhang , Yikai Wang , Weiwei Xu

In this paper we present a new deep learning-driven approach to image-based synthesis of animations involving humanoid characters. Unlike previous deep approaches to image-based animation our method makes no assumptions on the type of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-14 John Kanji , David I. W. Levin

Previous animatable 3D-aware GANs for human generation have primarily focused on either the human head or full body. However, head-only videos are relatively uncommon in real life, and full body generation typically does not deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yue Wu , Sicheng Xu , Jianfeng Xiang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

In the industry, numerous commercial packages provide tools to introduce, and analyse human behaviour in the product's environment (for maintenance, ergonomics...), thanks to Virtual Humans. We will focus on control. Thanks to algorithms…

Cross-embodiment video generation aims to transfer motions across different humanoid embodiments, such as human-to-robot and robot-to-robot, enabling scalable data generation for embodied intelligence. A major challenge in this setting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yiren Song , Xiyao Deng , Pei Yang , Yihan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Although 2D generative models have made great progress in face image generation and animation, they often suffer from undesirable artifacts such as 3D inconsistency when rendering images from different camera viewpoints. This prevents them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yue Wu , Yu Deng , Jiaolong Yang , Fangyun Wei , Qifeng Chen , Xin Tong

Recent advances have shown that large-scale video diffusion models can be repurposed as neural renderers by first decomposing videos into intrinsic scene representations and then performing forward rendering under novel illumination. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Weiqing Xiao , Hong Li , Xiuyu Yang , Houyuan Chen , Wenyi Li , Tianqi Liu , Shaocong Xu , Chongjie Ye , Hao Zhao , Beibei Wang

Existing methods for reconstructing animatable 3D animals from videos typically rely on sparse semantic keypoints to fit parametric models. However, obtaining such keypoints is labor-intensive, and keypoint detectors trained on limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shanshan Zhong , Jiawei Peng , Zehan Zheng , Zhongzhan Huang , Wufei Ma , Guofeng Zhang , Qihao Liu , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen

Real-time synthesis of high-fidelity 3D character motion from audio is a pivotal component for next-generation interactive avatars and virtual assistants. However, most existing approaches are limited to offline processing of complete audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Bohong Chen , Yumeng Li , Yinglin Xu , Youyi Zheng , Yanlin Weng , Kun Zhou

We present a novel volumetric animation generation framework to create new types of animations from raw 3D surface or point cloud sequence of captured real performances. The framework considers as input time incoherent 3D observations of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-01-14 Benjamin Allain , Li Wang , Jean-Sebastien Franco , Franck Hetroy , Edmond Boyer

Animating human face images aims to synthesize a desired source identity in a natural-looking way mimicking a driving video's facial movements. In this context, Generative Adversarial Networks have demonstrated remarkable potential in…

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Despite tremendous recent progress, generative video models still struggle to capture real-world motion, dynamics, and physics. We show that this limitation arises from the conventional pixel reconstruction objective, which biases models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hila Chefer , Uriel Singer , Amit Zohar , Yuval Kirstain , Adam Polyak , Yaniv Taigman , Lior Wolf , Shelly Sheynin

Adapting pretrained video generation models into controllable world models via latent actions is a promising step towards creating generalist world models. The dominant paradigm adopts a two-stage approach that trains latent action model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yucen Wang , Fengming Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Li Zhao , Kaixin Wang , Jiang Bian

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

Recent works have shown how realistic talking face images can be obtained under the supervision of geometry guidance, e.g., facial landmark or boundary. To alleviate the demand for manual annotations, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xianfang Zeng , Yusu Pan , Mengmeng Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Yong Liu

This paper presents a generic face animator that is able to control the pose and expressions of a given face image. The animation is driven by human interpretable control signals consisting of head pose angles and the Action Unit (AU)…

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Pose-driven full-body avatars built on neural rendering produce high-quality novel views of a captured subject. Yet loose clothing and other dynamic elements deform in ways pose alone cannot explain: the same pose can correspond to many…

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