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license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- MCG-NJU/X-Dance
base_model:
- Wan-AI/Wan2.1-I2V-14B-480P
pipeline_tag: image-to-video
library_name: diffusers
---

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  <h2 align="center">SteadyDancer: Harmonized and Coherent Human Image Animation with First-Frame Preservation</h2>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0lLB3fsAAAAJ"><strong>Jiaming Zhang</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://dblp.org/pid/316/8117.html"><strong>Shengming Cao</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://qianduoduolr.github.io/"><strong>Rui Li</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Xiaotong_Zhao1"><strong>Xiaotong Zhao</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TSMchWcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao"><strong>Yutao Cui</strong></a>
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    <a href=""><strong>Xinglin Hou</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://mcg.nju.edu.cn/member/gswu/en/index.html"><strong>Gangshan Wu</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Haolan_Chen1"><strong>Haolan Chen</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FHvejDIAAAAJ"><strong>Yu Xu</strong></a> 
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    <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TSMchWcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao"><strong>Limin Wang</strong></a>
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    <a href="https://openreview.net/profile?id=~Kai_Ma4"><strong>Kai Ma</strong></a>
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        <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19320"><img src='https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-2511.19320-red' alt='Paper PDF'></a>
        <a href='https://mcg-nju.github.io/steadydancer-web'><img src='https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-Page-blue' alt='Project Page'></a>
        <a href='https://github.com/MCG-NJU/SteadyDancer'><img src='https://img.shields.io/badge/Github-SteadyDancer-orange'></a>
        <a href='https://huggingface.co/MCG-NJU/SteadyDancer-14B'><img src='https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20HuggingFace-Model-yellow'></a>
        <a href='https://huggingface.co/datasets/MCG-NJU/X-Dance'><img src='https://img.shields.io/badge/%F0%9F%A4%97%20HuggingFace-X--Dance-green'></a>
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    <b></a>Multimedia Computing Group, Nanjing University &nbsp; | &nbsp; </a>Platform and Content Group (PCG), Tencent  </b>
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This repository is the `checkpoint` of paper "SteadyDancer: Harmonized and Coherent Human Image Animation with First-Frame Preservation". SteadyDancer is a strong animation framework based on **Image-to-Video paradigm**, ensuring **robust first-frame preservation**. In contrast to prior *Reference-to-Video* approaches that often suffer from identity drift due to **spatio-temporal misalignments** common in real-world applications, SteadyDancer generates **high-fidelity and temporally coherent** human animations, outperforming existing methods in visual quality and control while **requiring significantly fewer training resources**.

![teaser](assets/teaser.png?raw=true)