ReImagine: Rethinking Controllable High-Quality Human Video Generation via Image-First Synthesis

Zhengwentai Sun, Keru Zheng, Chenghong Li, Hongjie Liao, Xihe Yang, Heyuan Li, Yihao Zhi, Shuliang Ning, Shuguang Cui, Xiaoguang Han

ReImagine: Rethinking Controllable High-Quality Human Video Generation via Image-First Synthesis: 1 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #24 of 30 papers on 2026-04-23. Day-by-day upvote history.

Human video generation remains challenging due to the difficulty of jointly modeling human appearance, motion, and camera viewpoint under limited multi-view data. Existing methods often address these factors separately, resulting in limited controllability or reduced visual quality. We revisit this problem from an image-first perspective, where high-quality human appearance is learned via image generation and used as a prior for video synthesis, decoupling appearance modeling from temporal consistency. We propose a pose- and viewpoint-controllable pipeline that combines a pretrained image backbone with SMPL-X-based motion guidance, together with a training-free temporal refinement stage based on a pretrained video diffusion model. Our method produces high-quality, temporally consistent videos under diverse poses and viewpoints. We also release a canonical human dataset and an auxiliary model for compositional human image synthesis. Code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/Taited/ReImagine.

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