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Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo

arXiv 1812.02246 ↗First posted 5 Dec 2018cs.CV cs.GRcited by 60

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We present a method and application for animating a human subject from a single photo. E.g., the character can walk out, run, sit, or jump in 3D. The key contributions of this paper are: 1) an application of viewing and animating humans in single photos in 3D, 2) a novel 2D warping method to deform a posable template body model to fit the person's complex silhouette to create an animatable mesh, and 3) a method for handling partial self occlusions. We compare to state-of-the-art related methods and evaluate results with human studies. Further, we present an interactive interface that allows re-posing the person in 3D, and an augmented reality setup where the animated 3D person can emerge from the photo into the real world. We demonstrate the method on photos, posters, and art.

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  9. 2024MOFA-Video: Controllable Image Animation via Generative Motion Field Adaptions in Frozen Image-to-Video Diffusion Modelcited by 87
  10. 2023AnimateAnything: Fine-Grained Open Domain Image Animation with Motion Guidancecited by 66
  11. 2025PhysGen3D: Crafting a Miniature Interactive World from a Single Imagecited by 65
  12. 2022Drivable Volumetric Avatars using Texel-Aligned Featurescited by 62
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  3. 2024Follow-Your-Click: Open-domain Regional Image Animation via Short Promptscited by 52
  4. 2023Breathing Life Into Sketches Using Text-to-Video Priorscited by 47
  5. 2021Multi-modal 3D Human Pose Estimation with 2D Weak Supervision in Autonomous Drivingcited by 39
  6. 2022Faster VoxelPose: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation by Orthographic Projectioncited by 39
  7. 2023High-Fidelity Clothed Avatar Reconstruction from a Single Imagecited by 38
  8. 2022Animatable Implicit Neural Representations for Creating Realistic Avatars from Videoscited by 33
  9. 2022Topologically-Aware Deformation Fields for Single-View 3D Reconstructioncited by 29
  10. 2024StoryAgent: Customized Storytelling Video Generation via Multi-Agent Collaborationcited by 28
  11. 2023D-IF: Uncertainty-aware Human Digitization via Implicit Distribution Fieldcited by 26
  12. 2021Out-of-Domain Human Mesh Reconstruction via Dynamic Bilevel Online Adaptationcited by 24
  13. 2025DIPO: Dual-State Images Controlled Articulated Object Generation Powered by Diverse Datacited by 21
  14. 2023A Method for Animating Children's Drawings of the Human Figurecited by 20
  15. 2023Vision-Based Human Pose Estimation via Deep Learning: A Surveycited by 20
  16. 2022Audio-driven Neural Gesture Reenactment with Video Motion Graphscited by 18
  17. 2021HUMBI: A Large Multiview Dataset of Human Body Expressions and Benchmark Challengecited by 17
  18. 2021Action2video: Generating Videos of Human 3D Actionscited by 15
  19. 2022H4D: Human 4D Modeling by Learning Neural Compositional Representationcited by 15
  20. 2024Survey on Modeling of Human-made Articulated Objectscited by 14
  21. 2021MoCaNet: Motion Retargeting in-the-wild via Canonicalization Networkscited by 13
  22. 2023Automatic Animation of Hair Blowing in Still Portrait Photoscited by 13
  23. 2024CanonicalFusion: Generating Drivable 3D Human Avatars from Multiple Imagescited by 12
  24. 2024SpatialDreamer: Self-supervised Stereo Video Synthesis from Monocular Inputcited by 11
  25. 2021UltraPose: Synthesizing Dense Pose with 1 Billion Points by Human-body Decoupling 3D Modelcited by 9
  26. 2021Object Wake-up: 3D Object Rigging from a Single Imagecited by 8
  27. 2021Endless Loops: Detecting and Animating Periodic Patterns in Still Imagescited by 7
  28. 2022WarpingGAN: Warping Multiple Uniform Priors for Adversarial 3D Point Cloud Generationcited by 7
  29. 2023What Happened 3 Seconds Ago? Inferring the Past with Thermal Imagingcited by 7
  30. 2024Domain-Adaptive 2D Human Pose Estimation via Dual Teachers in Extremely Low-Light Conditionscited by 7
  31. 20253D Object Manipulation in a Single Image using Generative Modelscited by 7
  32. 2022Quantification of Occlusion Handling Capability of a 3D Human Pose Estimation Frameworkcited by 5
  33. 2022Bottom-Up 2D Pose Estimation via Dual Anatomical Centers for Small-Scale Personscited by 5
  34. 2023HMC: Hierarchical Mesh Coarsening for Skeleton-free Motion Retargetingcited by 5
  35. 2023Animating Street Viewcited by 3
  36. 2024PADS: Plug-and-Play 3D Human Pose Analysis via Diffusion Generative Modelingcited by 3
  37. 2024MoCap-to-Visual Domain Adaptation for Efficient Human Mesh Estimation from 2D Keypointscited by 3
  38. 2025MultiModal Action Conditioned Video Generationcited by 3

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