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We present a novel character control framework that effectively utilizes motion diffusion probabilistic models to generate high-quality and diverse character animations, responding in real-time to a variety of dynamic user-supplied control…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Rui Chen , Mingyi Shi , Shaoli Huang , Ping Tan , Taku Komura , Xuelin Chen

Recent advances in diffusion-based text-to-video models, particularly those built on the diffusion transformer architecture, have achieved remarkable progress in generating high-quality and temporally coherent videos. However, transferring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhexin Zhang , Yangyang Xu , Yifeng Zhu , Long Chen , Yong Du , Shengfeng He , Jun Yu

Character image animation, which generates high-quality videos from a reference image and target pose sequence, has seen significant progress in recent years. However, most existing methods only apply to human figures, which usually do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Shuai Tan , Biao Gong , Xiang Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Dandan Zheng , Ruobing Zheng , Kecheng Zheng , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang

Generating natural human motion from a story has the potential to transform the landscape of animation, gaming, and film industries. A new and challenging task, Story-to-Motion, arises when characters are required to move to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhongfei Qing , Zhongang Cai , Zhitao Yang , Lei Yang

Over the past few years, the automatic generation of facial animation for virtual characters has garnered interest among the animation research and industry communities. Recent research contributions leverage machine-learning approaches to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Eloïse Berson , Catherine Soladié , Vincent Barrielle , Nicolas Stoiber

Real-time character animation in dynamic environments requires the generation of plausible upper-body movements regardless of the nature of the environment, including non-rigid obstacles such as vegetation. We propose a flexible model for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Eduardo Alvarado , Damien Rohmer , Marie-Paule Cani

Portrait Animation aims to synthesize a lifelike video from a single source image, using it as an appearance reference, with motion (i.e., facial expressions and head pose) derived from a driving video, audio, text, or generation. Instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jianzhu Guo , Dingyun Zhang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Zhizhou Zhong , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Recent advances in learning reusable motion priors have demonstrated their effectiveness in generating naturalistic behaviors. In this paper, we propose a new learning framework in this paradigm for controlling physics-based characters with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qingxu Zhu , He Zhang , Mengting Lan , Lei Han

Text animation serves as an expressive medium, transforming static communication into dynamic experiences by infusing words with motion to evoke emotions, emphasize meanings, and construct compelling narratives. Crafting animations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zichen Liu , Yihao Meng , Hao Ouyang , Yue Yu , Bolin Zhao , Daniel Cohen-Or , Huamin Qu

Image animation is a key task in computer vision which aims to generate dynamic visual content from static image. Recent image animation methods employ neural based rendering technique to generate realistic animations. Despite these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zuozhuo Dai , Zhenghao Zhang , Yao Yao , Bingxue Qiu , Siyu Zhu , Long Qin , Weizhi Wang

We propose an attention-based networks for transferring motions between arbitrary objects. Given a source image(s) and a driving video, our networks animate the subject in the source images according to the motion in the driving video. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Subin Jeon , Seonghyeon Nam , Seoung Wug Oh , Seon Joo Kim

Recent diffusion-based methods have achieved impressive results on animating images of human subjects. However, most of that success has built on human-specific body pose representations and extensive training with labeled real videos. In…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zeqi Gu , Difan Liu , Timothy Langlois , Matthew Fisher , Abe Davis

With diffusion transformer (DiT) excelling in video generation, its use in specific tasks has drawn increasing attention. However, adapting DiT for pose-guided human image animation faces two core challenges: (a) existing U-Net-based pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haoyu Zhao , Zhongang Qi , Cong Wang , Qingping Zheng , Guansong Lu , Fei Chen , Hang Xu , Zuxuan Wu

We propose MikuDance, a diffusion-based pipeline incorporating mixed motion dynamics to animate stylized character art. MikuDance consists of two key techniques: Mixed Motion Modeling and Mixed-Control Diffusion, to address the challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Jiaxu Zhang , Xianfang Zeng , Xin Chen , Wei Zuo , Gang Yu , Zhigang Tu

Recent advances in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models (e.g., FLUX.1) have greatly improved visual fidelity in consistent character generation and editing. However, existing methods rarely unify these tasks within a single framework.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Benjia Zhou , Bin Fu , Pei Cheng , Yanru Wang , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

Video generative models can be regarded as world simulators due to their ability to capture dynamic, continuous changes inherent in real-world environments. These models integrate high-dimensional information across visual, temporal,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hengyuan Cao , Yutong Feng , Biao Gong , Yijing Tian , Yunhong Lu , Chuang Liu , Bin Wang

Animated movies are captivating for their unique character designs and imaginative storytelling, yet they pose significant challenges for existing recognition systems. Unlike the consistent visual patterns detected by conventional face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhongrui Gui , Junyu Xie , Tengda Han , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Text-driven human motion generation is an emerging task in animation and humanoid robot design. Existing algorithms directly generate the full sequence which is computationally expensive and prone to errors as it does not pay special…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Zichen Geng , Caren Han , Zeeshan Hayder , Jian Liu , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian