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Talking head video generation aims to animate a human face in a still image with dynamic poses and expressions using motion information derived from a target-driving video, while maintaining the person's identity in the source image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Fa-Ting Hong , Dan Xu

Human-to-humanoid imitation learning aims to learn a humanoid whole-body controller from human motion. Motion retargeting is a crucial step in enabling robots to acquire reference trajectories when exploring locomotion skills. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xingyu Chen , Hanyu Wu , Sikai Wu , Mingliang Zhou , Diyun Xiang , Haodong Zhang

Human motion retargeting aims to transfer the motion of one person in a "driving" video or set of images to another person. Existing efforts leverage a long training video from each target person to train a subject-specific motion transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jian Ren , Menglei Chai , Oliver J. Woodford , Kyle Olszewski , Sergey Tulyakov

The field of image-to-video generation has made remarkable progress. However, challenges such as human limb twisting and facial distortion persist, especially when generating long videos or modeling intensive motions. Existing human image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chang Liu , Mengting Chen , Yixuan Huang , Haoning Wu , Chen Ju , Shuai Xiao , Jinsong Lan , Yanfeng Wang

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-video (I2V) models, have enabled the creation of visually compelling and dynamic videos from simple textual descriptions or initial frames. However, these models often fail to provide an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Thomas Ressler-Antal , Frank Fundel , Malek Ben Alaya , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Felix Krause , Ming Gui , Björn Ommer

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

Deriving sophisticated 3D motions from sparse keyframes is a particularly challenging problem, due to continuity and exceptionally skeletal precision. The action features are often derivable accurately from the full series of keyframes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Clinton Ansun Mo , Kun Hu , Chengjiang Long , Zhiyong Wang

Portrait animation aims to generate photo-realistic videos from a single source image by reenacting the expression and pose from a driving video. While early methods relied on 3D morphable models or feature warping techniques, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mallikarjun B. R. , Fei Yin , Vikram Voleti , Nikita Drobyshev , Maksim Lapin , Aaryaman Vasishta , Varun Jampani

While recent image-based human animation methods achieve realistic body and facial motion synthesis, critical gaps remain in fine-grained holistic controllability, multi-scale adaptability, and long-term temporal coherence, which leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuxuan Luo , Zhengkun Rong , Lizhen Wang , Longhao Zhang , Tianshu Hu , Yongming Zhu

Character animation aims to generate lifelike videos by transferring motion dynamics from a driving video to a reference image. Recent strides in generative models have paved the way for high-fidelity character animation. In this work, we…

Effective motion representation is crucial for enabling robots to imitate expressive behaviors in real time, yet existing motion controllers often ignore inherent patterns in motion. Previous efforts in representation learning do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Matthias Heyrman , Chenhao Li , Victor Klemm , Dongho Kang , Stelian Coros , Marco Hutter

Controllable character image animation has a wide range of applications. Although existing studies have consistently improved performance, challenges persist in the field of character image animation, particularly concerning stability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jingyun Xue , Hongfa Wang , Qi Tian , Yue Ma , Andong Wang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Shaobo Min , Wenzhe Zhao , Kaihao Zhang , Heung-Yeung Shum , Wei Liu , Mengyang Liu , Wenhan Luo

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

Text-to-video diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, yet often fail to generate temporally coherent and physically plausible motion. A key reason is the models' insufficient understanding of complex motions that natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Denis Korzhenkov , Cees G. M. Snoek , Amirhossein Habibian , Mohsen Ghafoorian

This paper targets to explore the inter-subject variations eliminated facial expression representation in the compressed video domain. Most of the previous methods process the RGB images of a sequence, while the off-the-shelf and valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaofeng Liu , Linghao Jin , Xu Han , Jun Lu , Jane You , Lingsheng Kong

Motion artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) arise due to relatively long acquisition times and can compromise the clinical utility of acquired images. Traditional motion correction methods often fail to address severe motion,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Ziad Al-Haj Hemidi , Christian Weihsbach , Mattias P. Heinrich

Transferring human motion and appearance between videos of human actors remains one of the key challenges in Computer Vision. Despite the advances from recent image-to-image translation approaches, there are several transferring contexts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Thiago L. Gomes , Renato Martins , João Ferreira , Rafael Azevedo , Guilherme Torres , Erickson R. Nascimento

Motion is an important signal for agents in dynamic environments, but learning to represent motion from unlabeled video is a difficult and underconstrained problem. We propose a model of motion based on elementary group properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Andrew Jaegle , Stephen Phillips , Daphne Ippolito , Kostas Daniilidis

We propose SelfRecon, a clothed human body reconstruction method that combines implicit and explicit representations to recover space-time coherent geometries from a monocular self-rotating human video. Explicit methods require a predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Boyi Jiang , Yang Hong , Hujun Bao , Juyong Zhang

Due to the remarkable progress of deep generative models, animating images has become increasingly efficient, whereas associated results have become increasingly realistic. Current animation-approaches commonly exploit structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Yaohui Wang , Di Yang , Francois Bremond , Antitza Dantcheva