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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,…

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Existing for audio- and pose-driven human animation methods often struggle with stiff head movements and blurry hands, primarily due to the weak correlation between audio and head movements and the structural complexity of hands. To address…

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The creation of 3D human avatars from multi-view videos is a significant yet challenging task in computer vision. However, existing techniques rely on high-quality, sharp images as input, which are often impractical to obtain in real-world…

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The generation of talking avatars has achieved significant advancements in precise audio synchronization. However, crafting lifelike talking head videos requires capturing a broad spectrum of emotions and subtle facial expressions. Current…

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This report presents MagicAvatar, a framework for multimodal video generation and animation of human avatars. Unlike most existing methods that generate avatar-centric videos directly from multimodal inputs (e.g., text prompts), MagicAvatar…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jianfeng Zhang , Hanshu Yan , Zhongcong Xu , Jiashi Feng , Jun Hao Liew

Simple as it seems, moving an object to another location within an image is, in fact, a challenging image-editing task that requires re-harmonizing the lighting, adjusting the pose based on perspective, accurately filling occluded regions,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Xin Yu , Tianyu Wang , Soo Ye Kim , Paul Guerrero , Xi Chen , Qing Liu , Zhe Lin , Xiaojuan Qi

Despite tremendous recent progress in human video generation, generative video diffusion models still struggle to capture the dynamics and physics of human motions faithfully. In this paper, we propose a new framework for human video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tao Hu , Varun Jampani

Representing human performance at high-fidelity is an essential building block in diverse applications, such as film production, computer games or videoconferencing. To close the gap to production-level quality, we introduce HumanRF, a 4D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mustafa Işık , Martin Rünz , Markos Georgopoulos , Taras Khakhulin , Jonathan Starck , Lourdes Agapito , Matthias Nießner

Recent advances in 3D scene reconstruction and 4D human animation have broadened adoption, but integrating the two remains difficult. Key challenges include placing humans at plausible locations and scales without interpenetration, aligning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qingyang Liu , Bingjie Gao , Weiheng Huang , Jun Zhang , Zhongqian Sun , Yang Wei , Fengrui Liu , Zelin Peng , Qianli Ma , Shuai Yang , Zhaohe Liao , Haonan Zhao , Li Niu

We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Kaiyue Shen , Chen Guo , Manuel Kaufmann , Juan Jose Zarate , Julien Valentin , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

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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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Wentao Lei , Jinting Wang , Fengji Ma , Guanjie Huang , Li Liu

3D facial animation has attracted considerable attention due to its extensive applications in the multimedia field. Audio-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored with promising results. However, multi-modal 3D facial animation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Sijing Wu , Yunhao Li , Yichao Yan , Huiyu Duan , Ziwei Liu , Guangtao Zhai

We tackle the task of diverse 3D human motion prediction, that is, forecasting multiple plausible future 3D poses given a sequence of observed 3D poses. In this context, a popular approach consists of using a Conditional Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sadegh Aliakbarian , Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Lars Petersson , Stephen Gould , Mathieu Salzmann

We present PersonaCraft, a framework for controllable and occlusion-robust full-body personalized image synthesis of multiple individuals in complex scenes. Current methods struggle with occlusion-heavy scenarios and complete body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Gwanghyun Kim , Suh Yoon Jeon , Seunggyu Lee , Se Young Chun

Learning generic skills for humanoid robots interacting with 3D scenes by mimicking human data is a key research challenge with significant implications for robotics and real-world applications. However, existing methodologies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yun Liu , Bowen Yang , Licheng Zhong , He Wang , Li Yi

Rendering the visual appearance of moving humans from occluded monocular videos is a challenging task. Most existing research renders 3D humans under ideal conditions, requiring a clear and unobstructed scene. Those methods cannot be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Tiange Xiang , Adam Sun , Scott Delp , Kazuki Kozuka , Li Fei-Fei , Ehsan Adeli

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly pushed the state-of-the-art in photorealistic video animation given a single image. In this paper, we extrapolate those advances to the 3D domain, by studying 3D image-to-video translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Jiali Zheng , Stylianos Ploumpis , Giorgos Bouritsas , Evangelos Ververas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Recent advancements in character video synthesis still depend on extensive fine-tuning or complex 3D modeling processes, which can restrict accessibility and hinder real-time applicability. To address these challenges, we propose a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Di Qiu , Zheng Chen , Rui Wang , Mingyuan Fan , Changqian Yu , Junshi Huang , Xiang Wen

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…

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