Person-In-Situ: Scene-Consistent Human Image Insertion with Occlusion-Aware Pose Control

University of Tsukuba
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We tackle a novel problem of occlusion-aware human image insertion with explicit pose control, which cannot be handled by the state-of-the-art method. Our method can insert a person in a specified pose at an appropriate depth within a scene, without altering the scene’s appearance.

Abstract

Compositing human figures into scene images has broad applications in areas such as entertainment and advertising. However, existing methods often cannot handle occlusion of the inserted person by foreground objects and unnaturally place the person in the frontmost layer. Moreover, they offer limited control over the inserted person's pose. To address these challenges, we propose two methods. Both allow explicit pose control via a 3D body model and leverage latent diffusion models to synthesize the person at a contextually appropriate depth, naturally handling occlusions without requiring occlusion masks. The first is a two-stage approach: the model first learns a depth map of the scene with the person through supervised learning, and then synthesizes the person accordingly. The second method learns occlusion implicitly and synthesizes the person directly from input data without explicit depth supervision. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations show that both methods outperform existing approaches by better preserving scene consistency while accurately reflecting occlusions and user-specified poses.

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Our two methods for human image composition: (1) a two-stage estimation method, which first estimates an intermediate depth map and then composites the final output; and (2) a direct estimation method, which synthesizes the composited image in a single step.

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Overview of the dataset creation process. Two frames are randomly sampled from a single video: one is used as the reference human image, and the other as the ground-truth image, enabling training with paired images (and relevant data) of the same person in different poses.

BibTeX


        
        @article{shun2025personinsitu,
          title={{Person-In-Situ: Scene-Consistent Human Image Insertion with Occlusion-Aware Pose Control}},
          author={Shun Masuda and Yuki Endo and Yoshihiro Kanamori},
          journal={arXiv:2505.04052},
          year={2025}
        }