# Few-Shot Human Motion Transfer by Personalized Geometry and Texture Modeling

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14338 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.14338/

## Key facts

- Cited by 21 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 37 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 26 Mar 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 37)

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- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.03924/) (2018)
- [Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.07004/) (2016)
- [Encoder-Decoder with Atrous Separable Convolution for Semantic Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.02611/) (2018)
- [Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1603.08155/) (2016)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis and Semantic Manipulation with Conditional GANs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.11585/) (2017)
- [Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.08050/) (2016)
- [End-to-end Recovery of Human Shape and Pose](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.06584/) (2017)
- [PIFu: Pixel-Aligned Implicit Function for High-Resolution Clothed Human Digitization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.05172/) (2019)
- [Free-Form Image Inpainting with Gated Convolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.03589/) (2018)
- [DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.00434/) (2018)
- [Beyond Part Models: Person Retrieval with Refined Part Pooling (and a Strong Convolutional Baseline)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.09349/) (2017)
- [Video-to-Video Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.06601/) (2018)
- [Everybody Dance Now](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.07371/) (2018)
- [ARCH: Animatable Reconstruction of Clothed Humans](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.04572/) (2020)
- [Deferred Neural Rendering: Image Synthesis using Neural Textures](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.12356/) (2019)
- [Pose Guided Person Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.09368/) (2017)
- [Multi-Garment Net: Learning to Dress 3D People from Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.06903/) (2019)
- [Animating Arbitrary Objects via Deep Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.08861/) (2018)
- [Few-shot Video-to-Video Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.12713/) (2019)
- [Learning to Reconstruct People in Clothing from a Single RGB Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.05885/) (2019)
- [Deformable GANs for Pose-based Human Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.00055/) (2017)
- [Liquid Warping GAN: A Unified Framework for Human Motion Imitation, Appearance Transfer and Novel View Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.12224/) (2019)
- [Progressive Pose Attention Transfer for Person Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.03349/) (2019)
- [A Variational U-Net for Conditional Appearance and Shape Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.04694/) (2018)
- [Dense Intrinsic Appearance Flow for Human Pose Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.11326/) (2019)
- [Disentangled Person Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.02621/) (2017)
- [Synthesizing Images of Humans in Unseen Poses](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.07739/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 21 of 21)

- [StableAnimator: High-Quality Identity-Preserving Human Image Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.17697/) (2024)
- [MotionEditor: Editing Video Motion via Content-Aware Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.18830/) (2023)
- [MotionFollower: Editing Video Motion via Lightweight Score-Guided Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.20325/) (2024)
- [FlexiAct: Towards Flexible Action Control in Heterogeneous Scenarios](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.03730/) (2025)
- [Human MotionFormer: Transferring Human Motions with Vision Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.11306/) (2023)
- [StableAnimator++: Overcoming Pose Misalignment and Face Distortion for Human Image Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.15064/) (2025)
- [Copy Motion From One to Another: Fake Motion Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.01373/) (2022)
- [RANA: Relightable Articulated Neural Avatars](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.03237/) (2022)
- [Human Image Generation: A Comprehensive Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08896/) (2022)
- [Motion Transformer for Unsupervised Image Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14024/) (2022)
- [Do As I Do: Pose Guided Human Motion Copy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.16601/) (2024)
- [Motion and Appearance Adaptation for Cross-Domain Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14529/) (2022)
- [REMOT: A Region-to-Whole Framework for Realistic Human Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.00475/) (2022)
- [MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.10238/) (2025)
- [MotionWeaver: Holistic 4D-Anchored Framework for Multi-Humanoid Image Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.13326/) (2026)
- [DRaCoN -- Differentiable Rasterization Conditioned Neural Radiance Fields for Articulated Avatars](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.15798/) (2022)
- [An Identity-Preserved Framework for Human Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06862/) (2022)
- [Bidirectional Temporal Diffusion Model for Temporally Consistent Human Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.00574/) (2023)
- [UMFuse: Unified Multi View Fusion for Human Editing applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.10157/) (2022)
- [LatentMove: Towards Complex Human Movement Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.22046/) (2025)
- [DISPLAY: Directable Human-Object Interaction Video Generation via Sparse Motion Guidance and Multi-Task Auxiliary](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.09883/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present a new method for few-shot human motion transfer that achieves realistic human image generation with only a small number of appearance inputs. Despite recent advances in single person motion transfer, prior methods often require a large number of training images and take long training time. One promising direction is to perform few-shot human motion transfer, which only needs a few of source images for appearance transfer. However, it is particularly challenging to obtain satisfactory transfer results. In this paper, we address this issue by rendering a human texture map to a surface geometry (represented as a UV map), which is personalized to the source person. Our geometry generator combines the shape information from source images, and the pose information from 2D keypoints to synthesize the personalized UV map. A texture generator then generates the texture map conditioned on the texture of source images to fill out invisible parts. Furthermore, we may fine-tune the texture map on the manifold of the texture generator from a few source images at the test time, which improves the quality of the texture map without over-fitting or artifacts. Extensive experiments show the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods both qualitatively and quantitatively. Our code is available at https://github.com/HuangZhiChao95/FewShotMotionTransfer.