概要 About
Animation is no longer only hand-drawn anime. Models can now animate a still photo or synthesize stylized sequences — yet we still lack shared answers: How do we assess natural movement versus generated movement? What benchmarks capture temporal coherence, identity, and style? How do we control motion and animation with diffusion models and world models?
AINIME is, to our knowledge, the first workshop on this dual agenda: traditional anime/manga and natural-video animation. Creators need the tools; researchers need the venue. We bring generation, post-production, restoration, and quality evaluation onto one WACV stage — with a flagship Anime Restoration Challenge on Re-Anime600.
Built on the Re-Anime600 dataset and the AIGENS workshop at CVPR 2026.
募集 Call for Papers
We cover the whole production pipeline — from generation and post-processing to restoration and quality evaluation of natural and anime-style videos.
- Image-/text-to-video animation — natural and stylized
- Motion control — diffusion models and world models
- Natural movement vs. animation — new metrics and studies
- Benchmarks & datasets — temporal quality, identity, style
- Anime post-production — restoration, upscaling, colorization
- Responsible creative AI — authorship, consent, production tools
Regular papers, 5–8 pages (excl. references), double-blind review via OpenReview. The track is archival — accepted papers appear in the WACV 2027 workshop proceedings / IEEE Xplore.
| Submission deadline | October 6, 2026 |
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| Notification | October 30, 2026 |
| Camera-ready | November 20, 2026 |
| Workshop | January 4–5, 2027 · WACV Disney Springs |
OpenReview link will be announced here. Dates follow WACV workshop guidelines.
挑戦 Anime Restoration Challenge
Flagship challenge on Re-Anime600: video restoration and upscaling of anime, building on AIGENS at CVPR. Public baselines, a leaderboard, and prizes for the top teams.
600 curated high-fidelity clips for NR-IQA and super-resolution — the missing standard the community has been waiting for.
Results session during the workshop. Stay tuned for the challenge kit. 🏆
Re-Anime600 — clips spanning low, median, and high quality across four NR-IQA axes.
日程 Tentative Schedule
Half-day · times relative to the slot assigned by WACV (tentative morning).
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome & overview |
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Invited talk — academia (animation / media / evaluation) |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Invited talk — industry (production AI / localization) |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Coffee & posters |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Anime Restoration Challenge — results & baselines |
| 11:00 – 11:35 | Contributed orals / spotlights |
| 11:35 – 12:00 | Panel (metrics, motion control, data/IP, creator tools) & closing |
主催 Organizers
Primary contact: marcos.conde@uni-wuerzburg.de · georgia.fargetta@unict.it