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In this work, we propose MagicPose, a diffusion-based model for 2D human pose and facial expression retargeting. Specifically, given a reference image, we aim to generate a person's new images by controlling the poses and facial expressions…

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Style-conditioned text-to-image (T2I) generation with diffusion models requires both stable character structure and consistent, fine-grained style expression across diverse prompts. Existing approaches either rely on text-only prompting,…

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Talking face generation has historically struggled to produce head movements and natural facial expressions without guidance from additional reference videos. Recent developments in diffusion-based generative models allow for more realistic…

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Current diffusion models for human image animation often struggle to maintain identity (ID) consistency, especially when the reference image and driving video differ significantly in body size or position. We introduce StableAnimator++, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shuyuan Tu , Zhen Xing , Xintong Han , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Many applications can benefit from personalized image generation models, including image enhancement, video conferences, just to name a few. Existing works achieved personalization by fine-tuning one model for each person. While being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yu-Chuan Su , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yandong Li , Yang Zhao , Han Zhang , Boqing Gong , Huisheng Wang , Xuhui Jia

Pose-driven human-image animation diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities in realistic human video synthesis. Despite the promising results achieved by previous approaches, challenges persist in achieving temporally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jeongho Kim , Min-Jung Kim , Junsoo Lee , Jaegul Choo

DiffusionAvatars synthesizes a high-fidelity 3D head avatar of a person, offering intuitive control over both pose and expression. We propose a diffusion-based neural renderer that leverages generic 2D priors to produce compelling images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Matthias Nießner

Imitation learning is promising for robotic manipulation, but \emph{precise insertion} in the real world remains difficult due to contact-rich dynamics, tight clearances, and limited demonstrations. Many existing visuomotor policies depend…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Han Sun , Sheng Liu , Yizhao Wang , Zhenning Zhou , Shuai Wang , Haibo Yang , Jingyuan Sun , Qixin Cao

Recent progress in video diffusion models has markedly advanced character animation, which synthesizes motioned videos by animating a static identity image according to a driving video. Explicit methods represent motion using skeleton,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhufeng Xu , Xuan Gao , Feng-Lin Liu , Haoxian Zhang , Zhixue Fang , Yu-Kun Lai , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Lin Gao

This study delves into the intricacies of synchronizing facial dynamics with multilingual audio inputs, focusing on the creation of visually compelling, time-synchronized animations through diffusion-based techniques. Diverging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Rui Zhang , Yixiao Fang , Zhengnan Lu , Pei Cheng , Zebiao Huang , Bin Fu

Creating a realistic animatable avatar from a single static portrait remains challenging. Existing approaches often struggle to capture subtle facial expressions, the associated global body movements, and the dynamic background. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Mengchao Wang , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Yaqi Fan , Yunpeng Zhang , Yonggang Qi , Kun Zhao , Mu Xu

Generating diverse and realistic human motion that can physically interact with an environment remains a challenging research area in character animation. Meanwhile, diffusion-based methods, as proposed by the robotics community, have…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Takara E. Truong , Michael Piseno , Zhaoming Xie , C. Karen Liu

Face editing methods, essential for tasks like virtual avatars, digital human synthesis and identity preservation, have traditionally been built upon GAN-based techniques, while recent focus has shifted to diffusion-based models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengting Wei , Tuomas Varanka , Yante Li , Xingxun Jiang , Huai-Qian Khor , Guoying Zhao

Producing prompt-faithful videos that preserve a user-specified identity remains challenging: models need to extrapolate facial dynamics from sparse reference while balancing the tension between identity preservation and motion naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yixuan Lai , He Wang , Kun Zhou , Tianjia Shao

We introduce LOKI, a compute-efficient framework for co-designing morphologies and control policies that generalize across unseen tasks. Inspired by biological adaptation -- where animals quickly adjust to morphological changes -- our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Hyeonseong Jeon , Ainaz Eftekhar , Aaron Walsman , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Ali Farhadi , Ranjay Krishna

Recent advances in video diffusion models have unlocked new potential for realistic audio-driven talking video generation. However, achieving seamless audio-lip synchronization, maintaining long-term identity consistency, and producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Longtao Zheng , Yifan Zhang , Hanzhong Guo , Jiachun Pan , Zhenxiong Tan , Jiahao Lu , Chuanxin Tang , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan

Portrait animation aims to synthesize talking videos from a static reference face, conditioned on audio and style frame cues (e.g., emotion and head poses), while ensuring precise lip synchronization and faithful reproduction of speaking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 He Feng , Yongjia Ma , Donglin Di , Lei Fan , Tonghua Su , Xiangqian Wu

We present a deep learning-based framework for portrait reenactment from a single picture of a target (one-shot) and a video of a driving subject. Existing facial reenactment methods suffer from identity mismatch and produce inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Sitao Xiang , Yuming Gu , Pengda Xiang , Mingming He , Koki Nagano , Haiwei Chen , Hao Li

Diffusion models revolutionize image generation by leveraging natural language to guide the creation of multimedia content. Despite significant advancements in such generative models, challenges persist in depicting detailed human-object…

The rising demand for creating lifelike avatars in the digital realm has led to an increased need for generating high-quality human videos guided by textual descriptions and poses. We propose Dancing Avatar, designed to fabricate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bosheng Qin , Wentao Ye , Qifan Yu , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang