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Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation, opening the door to long-form synthesis, video world models, and interactive neural game engines. However, their core attention layers become a major bottleneck at inference…

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Character Animation aims to generating character videos from still images through driving signals. Currently, diffusion models have become the mainstream in visual generation research, owing to their robust generative capabilities. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Li Hu , Xin Gao , Peng Zhang , Ke Sun , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Recent advancements in personalized image generation using diffusion models have been noteworthy. However, existing methods suffer from inefficiencies due to the requirement for subject-specific fine-tuning. This computationally intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xu Peng , Junwei Zhu , Boyuan Jiang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Wei Lin , Taisong Jin , Chengjie Wang , Rongrong Ji

Autoregressive video diffusion models support real-time synthesis but suffer from error accumulation and context loss over long horizons. We discover that attention heads in AR video diffusion transformers serve functionally distinct roles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiahao Tian , Yiwei Wang , Gang Yu , Chi Zhang

Pose-driven human-image animation diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities in realistic human video synthesis. Despite the promising results achieved by previous approaches, challenges persist in achieving temporally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jeongho Kim , Min-Jung Kim , Junsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo

Diffusion models have made significant advances in generating high-quality images, but their application to video generation has remained challenging due to the complexity of temporal motion. Zero-shot video editing offers a solution by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Xirui Li , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Generating stable and controllable character motion in real-time is a key challenge in computer animation. Existing methods often fail to provide fine-grained control or suffer from motion degradation over long sequences, limiting their use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Eunjong Lee , Eunhee Kim , Sanghoon Hong , Eunho Jung , Jihoon Kim

Pre-trained conditional diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable potential in image editing. However, they often face challenges with temporal consistency, particularly in the talking head domain, where continuous changes in facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Haijie Yang , Zhenyu Zhang , Hao Tang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang

While deep feature learning has revolutionized techniques for static-image understanding, the same does not quite hold for video processing. Architectures and optimization techniques used for video are largely based off those for static…

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This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhongcong Xu , Jianfeng Zhang , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jia-Wei Liu , Chenxu Zhang , Jiashi Feng , Mike Zheng Shou

We present Follow-Your-Emoji-Faster, an efficient diffusion-based framework for freestyle portrait animation driven by facial landmarks. The main challenges in this task are preserving the identity of the reference portrait, accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yue Ma , Zexuan Yan , Hongyu Liu , Hongfa Wang , Heng Pan , Yingqing He , Junkun Yuan , Ailing Zeng , Chengfei Cai , Heung-Yeung Shum , Zhifeng Li , Wei Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Qifeng Chen

With the advance of diffusion models, today's video generation has achieved impressive quality. But generating temporal consistent long videos is still challenging. A majority of video diffusion models (VDMs) generate long videos in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kaifeng Gao , Jiaxin Shi , Hanwang Zhang , Chunping Wang , Jun Xiao

Advanced autoregressive (AR) video generation models have improved visual fidelity and interactivity, but the quadratic complexity of attention remains a primary bottleneck for efficient deployment. While existing sparse attention solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chengtao Lv , Yumeng Shi , Yushi Huang , Ruihao Gong , Shen Ren , Wenya Wang

Autoregressive video diffusion models enable open-ended generation through local attention and KV caching. However, existing training-free long-video optimization methods mainly focus on stable extension under a single prompt, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mingqiang Wu , Weilun Feng , Zhefeng Zhang , Haotong Qin , Yuqi Li , Guoxin Fan , Xiaokun Liu , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Yongjun Xu , Chuanguang Yang

This paper presents Qffusion, a dual-frame-guided framework for portrait video editing. Specifically, we consider a design principle of ``animation for editing'', and train Qffusion as a general animation framework from two still reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Maomao Li , Lijian Lin , Yunfei Liu , Ye Zhu , Yu Li

Audio-driven portrait animation, which synthesizes realistic videos from reference images using audio signals, faces significant challenges in real-time generation of high-fidelity, temporally coherent animations. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Dechao Meng , Steven Xiao , Xindi Zhang , Guangyuan Wang , Peng Zhang , Qi Wang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Autoregressive video diffusion models are capable of long rollouts that are stable and consistent with history, but they are unable to guide the current generation with conditioning from the future. In camera-guided video generation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chonghyuk Song , Michal Stary , Boyuan Chen , George Kopanas , Vincent Sitzmann

2D portrait animation has experienced significant advancements in recent years. Much research has utilized the prior knowledge embedded in large generative diffusion models to enhance high-quality image manipulation. However, most methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xinya Ji , Gaspard Zoss , Prashanth Chandran , Lingchen Yang , Xun Cao , Barbara Solenthaler , Derek Bradley

The diffusion model has gained popularity in vision applications due to its remarkable generative performance and versatility. However, high storage and computation demands, resulting from the model size and iterative generation, hinder its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Junhyuk So , Jungwon Lee , Daehyun Ahn , Hyungjun Kim , Eunhyeok Park

Autoregressive video diffusion models have proved effective for world modeling and interactive scene generation, with Minecraft gameplay as a representative application. To faithfully simulate play, a model must generate natural content…

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