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Video data is more cost-effective than motion capture data for learning 3D character motion controllers, yet synthesizing realistic and diverse behaviors directly from videos remains challenging. Previous approaches typically rely on…

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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

Current diffusion models for human image animation often struggle to maintain identity (ID) consistency, especially when the reference image and driving video differ significantly in body size or position. We introduce StableAnimator++, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shuyuan Tu , Zhen Xing , Xintong Han , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

Despite raw driving videos contain richer information on facial expressions than intermediate representations such as landmarks in the field of portrait animation, they are seldom the subject of research. This is due to two challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Shurong Yang , Huadong Li , Juhao Wu , Minhao Jing , Linze Li , Renhe Ji , Jiajun Liang , Haoqiang Fan

Character image animation is gaining significant importance across various domains, driven by the demand for robust and flexible multi-subject rendering. While existing methods excel in single-person animation, they struggle to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Ke Ma , Yutong Feng , Qiyuan Zhang , Yan Wang , Yujun Shen , Hengshuang Zhao

Recent advances in video generation have shown promise for generating future scenarios, critical for planning and control in autonomous driving and embodied intelligence. However, real-world applications demand more than visually plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Leyi Wu , Hao Lu , Yuying Chen , Lihui Jiang , Bingbing Liu , Yingcong Chen

We study the problem of directly deriving an initial human reenactment from a monocular video of a non-human character. Our goal is not to reconstruct the source character itself but to reinterpret its motion as a plausible and editable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Liuhan Chen , Lei Zhong , Jiewei Wang , Qin Shuai , Li Yuan , Leidong Fan , Qing Li , Kanglin Liu

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

Image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to create a video sequence from a single image, which requires high temporal coherence and visual fidelity. However, existing approaches suffer from inconsistency of character appearances and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Bingwen Zhu , Fanyi Wang , Tianyi Lu , Peng Liu , Jingwen Su , Jinxiu Liu , Yanhao Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Guo-Jun Qi , Yu-Gang Jiang

We present DreamAvatar, a text-and-shape guided framework for generating high-quality 3D human avatars with controllable poses. While encouraging results have been reported by recent methods on text-guided 3D common object generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Existing video avatar models can produce fluid human animations, yet they struggle to move beyond mere physical likeness to capture a character's authentic essence. Their motions typically synchronize with low-level cues like audio rhythm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianwen Jiang , Weihong Zeng , Zerong Zheng , Jiaqi Yang , Chao Liang , Wang Liao , Han Liang , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

Robotic manipulation systems operating in diverse, dynamic environments must exhibit three critical abilities: multitask interaction, generalization to unseen scenarios, and spatial memory. While significant progress has been made in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haoquan Fang , Markus Grotz , Wilbert Pumacay , Yi Ru Wang , Dieter Fox , Ranjay Krishna , Jiafei Duan

Character animation is a transformative field in computer graphics and vision, enabling dynamic and realistic video animations from static images. Despite advancements, maintaining appearance consistency in animations remains a challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaoyu Jin , Zunnan Xu , Mingwen Ou , Wenming Yang

Current datasets for action recognition tasks face limitations stemming from traditional collection and generation methods, including the constrained range of action classes, absence of multi-viewpoint recordings, limited diversity, poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xingyu Song , Zhan Li , Shi Chen , Kazuyuki Demachi

Generative AI is reshaping art, gaming, and most notably animation. Recent breakthroughs in foundation and diffusion models have reduced the time and cost of producing animated content. Characters are central animation components, involving…

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

Efficiently estimating the full-body pose with minimal wearable devices presents a worthwhile research direction. Despite significant advancements in this field, most current research neglects to explore full-body avatar estimation under…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Bo Qian , Zhenhuan Wei , Jiashuo Li , Xing Wei

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

Video-driven 3D facial animation transfer aims to drive avatars to reproduce the expressions of actors. Existing methods have achieved remarkable results by constraining both geometric and perceptual consistency. However, geometric…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Feng Qiu , Wei Zhang , Chen Liu , Rudong An , Lincheng Li , Yu Ding , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu , Xin Yu