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Portrait animation transfers a driver clip's facial expression and head pose onto a single reference image while preserving the reference's identity. State-of-the-art diffusion systems address this by stacking trained modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Pouyan Navard , Sernam Lim

Human pose information is a critical component in many downstream image processing tasks, such as activity recognition and motion tracking. Likewise, a pose estimator for the illustrated character domain would provide a valuable prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Shuhong Chen , Matthias Zwicker

Monocular 3D human pose estimation poses significant challenges due to the inherent depth ambiguities that arise during the reprojection process from 2D to 3D. Conventional approaches that rely on estimating an over-fit projection matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Junkun Jiang , Jie Chen

Image diffusion models, trained on massive image collections, have emerged as the most versatile image generator model in terms of quality and diversity. They support inverting real images and conditional (e.g., text) generation, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Duygu Ceylan , Chun-Hao Paul Huang , Niloy J. Mitra

Animating a still image offers an engaging visual experience. Traditional image animation techniques mainly focus on animating natural scenes with stochastic dynamics (e.g. clouds and fluid) or domain-specific motions (e.g. human hair or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jinbo Xing , Menghan Xia , Yong Zhang , Haoxin Chen , Wangbo Yu , Hanyuan Liu , Xintao Wang , Tien-Tsin Wong , Ying Shan

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

Motion in-betweening, a fundamental task in character animation, consists of generating motion sequences that plausibly interpolate user-provided keyframe constraints. It has long been recognized as a labor-intensive and challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Setareh Cohan , Guy Tevet , Daniele Reda , Xue Bin Peng , Michiel van de Panne

Current learning-based subject customization approaches, predominantly relying on U-Net architectures, suffer from limited generalization ability and compromised image quality. Meanwhile, optimization-based methods require subject-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jiale Tao , Yanbing Zhang , Qixun Wang , Yiji Cheng , Haofan Wang , Xu Bai , Zhengguang Zhou , Ruihuang Li , Linqing Wang , Chunyu Wang , Qin Lin , Qinglin Lu

We propose Uni-Animator, a novel Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based framework for unified image and video sketch colorization. Existing sketch colorization methods struggle to unify image and video tasks, suffering from imprecise color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xinyuan Chen , Yao Xu , Shaowen Wang , Pengjie Song , Bowen Deng

Real-time, streaming interactive avatars represent a critical yet challenging goal in digital human research. Although diffusion-based human avatar generation methods achieve remarkable success, their non-causal architecture and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyao Sun , Ziqiao Peng , Yifeng Ma , Yi Chen , Zhengguang Zhou , Zixiang Zhou , Guozhen Zhang , Youliang Zhang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Yong-Jin Liu

Suspect face generation remains a technical challenge in crime investigations. Traditional sketch-drawing workflows suffer from low efficiency and quality, while diffusion-based approaches still face intrinsic limitations on conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Weichen Liu , Yixin Yang , Changsheng Chen , Alex Kot

This report presents UniAnimate-DiT, an advanced project that leverages the cutting-edge and powerful capabilities of the open-source Wan2.1 model for consistent human image animation. Specifically, to preserve the robust generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Longxiang Tang , Yingya Zhang , Changxin Gao , Yuehuan Wang , Nong Sang

Facial appearance editing is crucial for digital avatars, AR/VR, and personalized content creation, driving realistic user experiences. However, preserving identity with generative models is challenging, especially in scenarios with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 MD Wahiduzzaman Khan , Mingshan Jia , Xiaolin Zhang , En Yu , Caifeng Shan , Kaska Musial-Gabrys

Animation of humanoid characters is essential in various graphics applications, but requires significant time and cost to create realistic animations. We propose an approach to synthesize 4D animated sequences of input static 3D humanoid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Marc Benedí San Millán , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Generating visual instructions in a given context is essential for developing interactive world simulators. While prior works address this problem through either text-guided image manipulation or video prediction, these tasks are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yujiang Pu , Zhanbo Huang , Vishnu Boddeti , Yu Kong

The field of photorealistic 3D avatar reconstruction and generation has garnered significant attention in recent years; however, animating such avatars remains challenging. Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced the…

Motion transfer enables controllable video generation by transferring temporal dynamics from a reference video to synthesize a new video conditioned on a target caption. However, existing Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Samuel Teodoro , Yun Chen , Agus Gunawan , Soo Ye Kim , Jihyong Oh , Munchurl Kim

In this paper, we present DreaMoving, a diffusion-based controllable video generation framework to produce high-quality customized human videos. Specifically, given target identity and posture sequences, DreaMoving can generate a video of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengyang Feng , Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Yuan Yao , Zheng Hui , Xiefan Guo , Xianhui Lin , Haolan Xue , Chen Shi , Xiaowen Li , Aojie Li , Xiaoyang Kang , Biwen Lei , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie

The diversity, quantity, and quality of manipulation data are critical for training effective robot policies. However, due to hardware and physical setup constraints, collecting large-scale real-world manipulation data remains difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Boyang Wang , Haoran Zhang , Shujie Zhang , Jinkun Hao , Mingda Jia , Qi Lv , Yucheng Mao , Zhaoyang Lyu , Jia Zeng , Xudong Xu , Jiangmiao Pang

We present X-MDPT ($\underline{Cross}$-view $\underline{M}$asked $\underline{D}$iffusion $\underline{P}$rediction $\underline{T}$ransformers), a novel diffusion model designed for pose-guided human image generation. X-MDPT distinguishes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Trung X. Pham , Zhang Kang , Chang D. Yoo