README.md

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  <h2 align="center">Animate-X: Universal Character Image Animation with Enhanced Motion Representation</h2>
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    <a href=""><strong>Shuai Tan</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BwdpTiQAAAAJ"><strong>Biao Gong</strong></a><sup>†</sup>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cQbXvkcAAAAJ"><strong>Xiang Wang</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZO3OQ-8AAAAJ"><strong>Shiwei Zhang</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://openreview.net/profile?id=~DanDan_Zheng1"><strong>Dandan Zheng</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=S8FmqTUAAAAJ"><strong>Ruobing Zheng</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hMDQifQAAAAJ"><strong>Kecheng Zheng</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Jingdong_Chen1"><strong>Jingdong Chen</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Ming_Yang2"><strong>Ming Yang</strong></a>            
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    <b></a>Ant Group &nbsp; | &nbsp; </a>Tongyi Lab  </b>
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## This repo include the checkpoints for Animate-X:

- "checkpoints/dw-ll_ucoco_384.onnx": the checkpoint for dwpose extraction.

- "checkpoints/open_clip_pytorch_model.bin": the checkpoint for clip embedding.

- "checkpoints/animate-x_ckpt.pth": the checkpoint for X-character image animation in Animate-X (32 frames).

- "checkpoints/yolox_l.onnx": the checkpoint for dwpose extraction.

- "checkpoints/v2-1_512-ema-pruned.ckpt": the checkpoint for Stable Diffusion.




## BibTeX

If this repo is useful to you, please cite our corresponding technical paper.

```bibtex
@article{AnimateX2025,
  title={Animate-X: Universal Character Image Animation with Enhanced Motion Representation},
  author={Tan, Shuai and Gong, Biao and Wang, Xiang and Zhang, Shiwei and Zheng, Dandan and Zheng, Ruobing and Zheng, Kecheng and Chen, Jingdong and Yang, Ming},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10306},
  year={2025}
}
```