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Human image animation has witnessed significant advancements, yet generating high-fidelity hand motions remains a persistent challenge due to their high degrees of freedom and motion complexity. While reinforcement learning from human…

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Cartoons and animation domain videos have very different characteristics compared to real-life images and videos. In addition, this domain carries a large variability in styles. Current computer vision and deep-learning solutions often fail…

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Accurately reconstructing human behavior in close-interaction scenarios is crucial for enabling realistic virtual interactions in augmented reality, precise motion analysis in sports, and natural collaborative behavior in human-robot tasks.…

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Semantic image parsing, which refers to the process of decomposing images into semantic regions and constructing the structure representation of the input, has recently aroused widespread interest in the field of computer vision. The recent…

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