arXiv AI

Beyond Skeletons: Learning Animation Directly from Driving Videos with Same2X Training Strategy

arXiv:2606. 06903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human image animation aims to generate a video from a static reference image, guided by pose information extracted from a driving video.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

DirectSwap: Paired, Mask-Free Video Head Swapping with Full-Reference Evaluation

The paper introduces DirectSwap, a mask‑free video head‑swapping method that leverages a newly created cross‑identity paired dataset, HeadSwapBench. By synthesizing expression‑synchronized video pairs from real footage, the authors provide frame‑aligned ground truth for full‑reference evaluation of identity, expression, pose, reconstruction fidelity, and temporal stability. DirectSwap outperforms traditional same‑identity masked reconstruction, especially when head silhouettes change, and can restore non‑head content without external segmentation.

By Yanan Wang, Shengcai Liao, Panwen Hu, Xin Li, Fan Yang, Guangxi Liu, Xiaodan Liang
arXiv AI
Jul 1

LUNA: Learning Universal 3D Human Animation Beyond Skinning

arXiv:2606. 31981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Creating photorealistic, animatable 3D human avatars from monocular images still largely depends on Linear Blend Skinning (LBS) and parametric body models, which constrain expressivity and often introduce artifacts due to imperfect fitting.

By Peng Li, Rawal Khirodkar, Junxuan Li, Yuan Dong, Chen Cao, Yuan Liu, Wenhan Luo, Yike Guo, Shunsuke Saito