Title
Animating Arbitrary Objects Via Deep Motion Transfer
Abstract
This paper introduces a novel deep learning framework for image animation. Given an input image with a target object and a driving video sequence depicting a moving object, our framework generates a video in which the target object is animated according to the driving sequence. This is achieved through a deep architecture that decouples appearance and motion information. Our framework consists of three main modules: (i) a Keypoint Detector unsupervisely trained to extract object keypoints, (ii) a Dense Motion prediction network for generating dense heatmaps from sparse keypoints, in order to better encode motion information and (iii) a Motion Transfer Network, which uses the motion heatmaps and appearance information extracted from the input image to synthesize the output frames. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on several benchmark datasets, spanning a wide variety of object appearances, and show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art image animation and video generation methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00248
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,ENCODE,Computer science,Source code,Motion transfer,Animation,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Motion prediction,Detector
Journal
abs/1812.08861
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
11
0.55
References 
Authors
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aliaksandr Siarohin1283.06
Stéphane Lathuilière2335.98
Sergey Tulyakov3289.28
Elisa Ricci 00024139373.75
Nicu Sebe57013403.03