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AwesomeAnimeResearch

Everything related to Anime.
For the Comics/Manga papers, please refer to 🔥 Awesome Comics Understanding
For the 2D cartoon video research, please refer to 🚀 Awesome-Animation-Research

📂 Datasets

Overview of Anime/Comic/Manga Datasets

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2025 | arXiv | [AnimeScore: A Preference-Based Dataset and Framework for Evaluating Anime-Like Speech Style](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11482) | [Github](https://github.com/sizigi/animescore) |
  | 2025 | arXiv | [MagicAnime: A Hierarchically Annotated, Multimodal and Multitasking Dataset with Benchmarks for Cartoon Animation Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20368) | |
  | 2025 | arXiv | [ComicScene154: A Scene Dataset for Comic Analysis](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16190) | |
  | 2025 | COLING | [AnimeDL-2M: Million-Scale AI-Generated Anime Image Detection and Localization in Diffusion Era](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11015) | [HP](https://flytweety.github.io/AnimeDL2M/) |
  | 2025 | COLING | [Context-Informed Machine Translation of Manga using Multimodal Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02589) | [GitHub](https://github.com/plippmann/multimodal-manga-translation) |
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [Tails Tell Tales: Chapter-Wide Manga Transcriptions with Character Names](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00298) | [GitHub](https://github.com/ragavsachdeva/magi) |
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [CoMix: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Task Comic Understanding](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03550) | [GitHub](https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/comix-dataset) |
  | 2023 | CVPR | [Human-Art: A Versatile Human-Centric Dataset Bridging Natural and Artificial Scenes](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2023/papers/Ju_Human-Art_A_Versatile_Human-Centric_Dataset_Bridging_Natural_and_Artificial_Scenes_CVPR_2023_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/IDEA-Research/HumanArt) | 
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [Manga109Dialog: A Large-scale Dialogue Dataset for Comics Speaker Detection](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17469.pdf) |  [Github](https://github.com/manga109/public-annotations) |
  | 2023 | ACM-TG | [Semi-supervised reference-based sketch extraction using a contrastive learning framework](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FELTVl73OrQ9Q0uBXN7jLbRStSsF-NgM/view?pli=1) |  [Github](https://github.com/Chanuku/4skst) |
  | 2023 | ACM-TG |  [Parsing-Conditioned Anime Translation: A New Dataset and Method](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3585002) | [Github](https://github.com/zsl2018/StyleAnime) | 
  | 2022 | NeurIPS-DB | [AnimeRun: 2D Animation Visual Correspondence from Open Source 3D Movies](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=04OPxj0jGN_) |  [HP](https://lisiyao21.github.io/projects/AnimeRun) |
  | 2022 | ECCV | [COO: Comic Onomatopoeia Dataset for Recognizing Arbitrary or Truncated Texts](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.04675.pdf) |   [Github](https://github.com/ku21fan/COO-Comic-Onomatopoeia) |
  | 2022 | CVPR Workshop |[A Challenging Benchmark of Anime Style Recognition](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022W/VDU/papers/Li_A_Challenging_Benchmark_of_Anime_Style_Recognition_CVPRW_2022_paper.pdf) |  | 
  | 2022 | ECCV | [AnimeCeleb: Large-Scale Animation CelebHeads Dataset for Head Reenactment](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.07640.pdf) |   [Github](https://github.com/kangyeolk/AnimeCeleb) |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [DAF:RE: A CHALLENGING, CROWD-SOURCED, LARGE-SCALE, LONG-TAILED DATASET FOR ANIME CHARACTER RECOGNITION](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.08674.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/arkel23/animesion) |
  | 2020 | ACM-MM | [Cartoon Face Recognition: A Benchmark Dataset](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.13394.pdf) |   [Github](https://github.com/luxiangju-PersonAI/iCartoonFace) |
  | 2020 | ECCV Workshop | [Unconstrained Text Detection in Manga: a New Dataset and Baseline](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.04042.pdf) |  [Github](https://github.com/juvian/Manga-Text-Segmentation) |
  | 2020 | ECCV | [DanbooRegion: An Illustration Region Dataset](https://lllyasviel.github.io/DanbooRegion/paper/paper.pdf) |  [Github](https://github.com/lllyasviel/DanbooRegion) |
  | 2020 | MMUL | [Building a Manga Dataset ”Manga109” with Annotations for Multimedia Applications](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.04425.pdf) |  [HP](http://www.manga109.org/ja/download_s.html) |
  | 2019 | CVPR | [Creative Flow+ Dataset](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/papers/Shugrina_Creative_Flow_Dataset_CVPR_2019_paper.pdf) |  [HP](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/creativeflow/) |
  | 2017 | CVPR | [The Amazing Mysteries of the Gutter: Drawing Inferences Between Panels in Comic Book Narratives](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.05118.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/miyyer/comics) |

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Benchmarks

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2026 | arXiv | [AnimationBench: Are Video Models Good at Character-Centric Animation?](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.15299) | [Github](https://github.com/VideoVerses/AnimationBench) |

📜 Papers

Anime Production

End-to-end Anime Generation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
  | 2025 | SIGGRAPH | [AniME: Adaptive Multi-Agent Planning for Long AnimationGeneration](https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3757374.3771455) | |
  | 2025 | SIGGRAPH | [AniMaker: Multi-Agent Animated Storytelling with MCTS-Driven Clip Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10540) | [Github](https://github.com/HITsz-TMG/Anim-Director) |
  | 2025 | arXiv | [CartoonAlive: Towards Expressive Live2D Modeling from Single Portraits](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17327) |[HP](https://human3daigc.github.io/CartoonAlive_webpage/) |
  | 2024 | SIGGRAPH | [Anim-Director: A Large Multimodal Model Powered Agent for Controllable Animation Video Generation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3680528.3687688) | [Github](https://github.com/HITsz-TMG/Anim-Director) |

Image Generation

Generation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [SakugaFlow: A Stagewise Illustration Framework Emulating the Human Drawing Process and Providing Interactive Tutoring for Novice Drawing Skills](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08443) | | |
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [Interactive Drawing Guidance for Anime Illustrations with Diffusion Model](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09140) |  |
  | 2022 | Arxiv | [Combating Mode Collapse in GANs via Manifold Entropy Estimation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.12055.pdf) | | [Github](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.12055.pdf) |
  | 2022 | SIGGRAPH | [StyleGAN-NADA: CLIP-Guided Domain Adaptation of Image Generators](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.00946.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/rinongal/StyleGAN-nada) |
  | 2021 | ICCV | [DisUnknown: Distilling Unknown Factors for Disentanglement Learning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.08090.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/stormraiser/disunknown) |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [CoPE: Conditional image generation using Polynomial Expansions](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.05077.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [Efficient Continual Adaptation for Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.04032.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | ElConRus | [Generating "Ideal" Anime Opening Frames Using Neural Networks](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9396557) | |
  | 2021 | CVPR | [HistoGAN: Controlling Colors of GAN-Generated and Real Images via Color Histograms](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.11731.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/mahmoudnafifi/HistoGAN) |
  | 2020 |  | [Generating Full-Body Standing Figures of Anime Characters and Its Style Transfer by GAN](https://waseda.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=58145&item_no=1&page_id=13&block_id=21) | |
  | 2020 | NeurIPS | [GAN Memory with No Forgetting](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07543.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/MiaoyunZhao/GANmemory_LifelongLearning) |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [Classification Representations Can be Reused for Downstream Generations](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.07543.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [Autoencoding Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.05472.pdf) | | [Github](https://github.com/ConorLazarou/AEGAN-keras) |
  | 2019 | IEEE Access | [An Adaptive Control Algorithm for Stable Training of Generative Adversarial Networks](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8936350) | |
  | 2019 | Arxiv | [Overcoming Long-term Catastrophic Forgetting through Adversarial Neural Pruning and Synaptic Consolidation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.09091.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | EG | [Towards Diverse Anime Face Generation: Active Label Completion and Style Feature Network](https://diglib.eg.org/bitstream/handle/10.2312/egs20191016/065-068.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) | |
  | 2018 | IJCNN | [Generate Novel Image Styles using Weighted Hybrid Generative Adversarial Nets](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8489080) | |
  | 2018 | ECCV Workshop | [Full-body High-resolution Anime Generation with Progressive Structure-conditional Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.01890v1.pdf) | [HP](https://dena.com/intl/anime-generation/) |
  | 2017 | Comiket92 | [Towards the Automatic Anime Characters Creation with Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05509.pdf) | [HP](https://make.girls.moe/#/) |

Few-shot

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | CAVW | [Controlling StyleGANs Using Rough Scribbles via One-shot Learning](http://www.cgg.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~endo/projects/StyleGANSparseControl/CAVW_endo22_preprint.pdf)  | [HP](http://www.cgg.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~endo/projects/StyleGANSparseControl/) |
  | 2022 | WACV | [Data InStance Prior (DISP) in Generative Adversarial Networks](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2022/papers/Mangla_Data_InStance_Prior_DISP_in_Generative_Adversarial_Networks_WACV_2022_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [MineGAN++: Mining Generative Models for Efficient Knowledge Transfer to Limited Data Domains](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13742.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [DATA INSTANCE PRIOR FOR TRANSFER LEARNING IN GANS](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.04256.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | CVPR Workshop | [Freeze the Discriminator: a Simple Baseline for Fine-Tuning GANs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.10964.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/sangwoomo/FreezeD) |
  | 2020 | CVPR | [MineGAN: effective knowledge transfer from GANs to target domains with few images](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/papers/Wang_MineGAN_Effective_Knowledge_Transfer_From_GANs_to_Target_Domains_With_CVPR_2020_paper.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/yaxingwang/MineGAN) |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [FEW-SHOT ADAPTATION OF GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11943.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/e-271/few-shot-gan) |
  | 2019 | ICCV | [Image Generation From Small Datasets via Batch Statistics Adaptation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/papers/Noguchi_Image_Generation_From_Small_Datasets_via_Batch_Statistics_Adaptation_ICCV_2019_paper.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/nogu-atsu/small-dataset-image-generation) |

Interpretability

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | Big Data | [Unsupervised Discovery of Disentangled Interpretable Directions for Layer-Wise GAN](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-8331-3_2) | |
  | 2022 | AAAI | [Self-supervised Enhancement of Latent Discovery in GANs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.08835.pdf) | | 
  | 2021 | ACM-MM | [Discovering Density-Preserving Latent Space Walks in GANs for Semantic Image Transformations](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3474085.3475293) | | |
  | 2021 | CVPR | [Discovering Interpretable Latent Space Directions of GANs Beyond Binary Attributes](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Yang_Discovering_Interpretable_Latent_Space_Directions_of_GANs_Beyond_Binary_Attributes_CVPR_2021_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [EigenGAN: Layer-Wise Eigen-Learning for GANs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12476.pdf) | | [Github](https://github.com/LynnHo/EigenGAN-Tensorflow) |
  | 2021 | CVPR | [Surrogate Gradient Field for Latent Space Manipulation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.09065.pdf)  | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [Do Generative Models Know Disentanglement? Contrastive Learning is All You Need](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.10543.pdf) | | [Github](https://github.com/xrenaa/DisCo) |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [Unsupervised Discovery of Disentangled Manifolds in GANs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.11842.pdf) | | |
  | 2021 | CVPR | [Closed-Form Factorization of Latent Semantics in GANs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.06600.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/genforce/sefa) |
  | 2020 | ICML | [Unsupervised Discovery of Interpretable Directions in the GAN Latent Space](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.03754.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/anvoynov/GANLatentDiscovery) |
  | 2019 | Arxiv | [RPGAN: GANs Interpretability via Random Routing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.10920.pdf) | | [Github](https://github.com/anvoynov/RandomPathGAN) |

Montage

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | ICPR | [MontageGAN: Generation and Assembly of Multiple Components by GANs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.15577.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/uchidalab/docker-montage-gan)|
  | 2022 | TOG | [Sprite-from-Sprite: Cartoon Animation Decomposition with Self-supervised Sprite Estimation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3550454.3555439) | |

Text-to-Image

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05543.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet) |
  | 2022 | Arxiv | [DreamArtist: Towards Controllable One-Shot Text-to-Image Generation via Positive-Negative Prompt-Tuning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.11337.pdf) |  [Github](https://github.com/7eu7d7/DreamArtist-stable-diffusion) |

Image 2 Image Translation

Face 2 Anime

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [StyO: Stylize Your Face in Only One-Shot](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.03231.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | TVCG | [Appearance-preserved Portrait-to-anime Translation via Proxy-guided Domain Adaptation](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9982378) | |
  | 2022 | Arxiv | [Neural Optimal Transport](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.12220.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | CVPR Workshop | [Cross-Domain Style Mixing for Face Cartoonization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.12450.pdf) | [HP](https://webtoon.github.io/WebtoonMe/en)|
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [A Domain Gap Aware Generative Adversarial Network for Multi-domain Image Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10837.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | ACM-TG| [AgileGAN: Stylizing Portraits by Inversion-Consistent Transfer Learning](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3450626.3459771) | [Github](https://github.com/GuoxianSong/AgileGAN) |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [FINE-TUNING STYLEGAN2 FOR CARTOON FACE GENERATION](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.12445.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/happy-jihye/Cartoon-StyleGAN) |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [GANs N’ Roses: Stable, Controllable, Diverse Image to Image Translation (works for videos too!)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.06561.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/mchong6/GANsNRoses) |
  | 2021 | JSAI | [Multi-CartoonGAN for Conditional Artistic Face Translation ](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjsai/JSAI2021/0/JSAI2021_2N1IS2a01/_pdf) | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [AniGAN: Style-Guided Generative Adversarial Networks for Unsupervised Anime Face Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12593.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/bing-li-ai/AniGAN) |
  | 2021 | ICCECE | [Turn Real People into Anime Cartoonization](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9342433)  | |
  | 2020 | NeurIPS Workshop | [A Note on Data Biases in Generative Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.02516.pdf) |  |
  |  2020 | Arxiv | [Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation via Pre-trained StyleGAN2 Network](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.05713.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/HideUnderBush/UI2I_via_StyleGAN2) |
  |  2020 | Arxiv | [Few-shot Knowledge Transfer for Fine-grained Cartoon Face Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.13332.pdf) | | 
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [Auto-Encoding for Shared Cross Domain Feature Representation and Image-to-Image Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11404.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | ICASERT | [Generating Anime from Real Human Image with Adversarial Training](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8934465) | |
  | 2019 | Arxiv | [Landmark Assisted CycleGAN for Cartoon Face Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.01424v1.pdf) | |
  | 2018 | CVPR | [DA-GAN: Instance-level Image Translation by Deep Attention Generative Adversarial Networks](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Ma_DA-GAN_Instance-Level_Image_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/Rongpeng-Lin/A-DA-GAN-architecture) |
  | 2018 | Arxiv | [Twin-GAN – Unpaired Cross-Domain Image Translation with Weight-Sharing GANs](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.00946.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/jerryli27/TwinGAN) |
  | 2018 | ECCV | [Improving Shape Deformation in Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCV_2018/papers/Aaron_Gokaslan_Improving_Shape_Deformation_ECCV_2018_paper.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/brownvc/ganimorph) |

Selfie 2 Anime

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | CVPR | [Alleviating Semantics Distortion in Unsupervised Low-Level Image-to-Image Translation via Structure Consistency Constraint](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/papers/Guo_Alleviating_Semantics_Distortion_in_Unsupervised_Low-Level_Image-to-Image_Translation_via_Structure_CVPR_2022_paper.pdf)  | |
  | 2022 | ICIP | [Hyprogan: Breaking the Dimensional wall From Human to Anime](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9897973)  | |
  | 2022 | MMUL | [Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Negative Learning for Noisy Patches](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9780547) | |
  | 2022 | CVPR | [Unpaired Cartoon Image Synthesis via Gated Cycle Mapping](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2022/papers/Men_Unpaired_Cartoon_Image_Synthesis_via_Gated_Cycle_Mapping_CVPR_2022_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | Arxiv | [UVCGAN: UNET VISION TRANSFORMER CYCLE-CONSISTENT GAN FOR UNPAIRED IMAGE-TO-IMAGE TRANSLATION](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02557.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | ICCV | [Unaligned Image-to-Image Translation by Learning to Reweight](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.11736.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal: Model Extraction Attacks Against Image Translation Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12623.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [SPatchGAN: A Statistical Feature Based Discriminator for Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.16219.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | MAPR | [Interpolation based Anime Face Style Transfer](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9237764) | |
  | 2020 | ICML | [Feature Quantization Improves GAN Training](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.02088.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/YangNaruto/FQ-GAN) |
  | 2020 | ECCV | [Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Adversarial Consistency Loss](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.04858.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/hyperplane-lab/ACL-GAN) |
  | 2019 | IJCNN | [AttentionGAN: Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Attention-Guided Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.11897.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/Ha0Tang/AttentionGAN) |
  | 2020 | CVPR | [Breaking the cycle—Colleagues are all you need](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.10538.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/Onr/Council-GAN) |
  | 2020 | ICLR | [U-GAT-IT: Unsupervised Generative Attentional Networks with Adaptive Layer-Instance Normalization for Image-to-Image Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10830.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT) |

Photo 2 Anime

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2024 | IEICE TIS | [A Novel Double-Tail Generative Adversarial Network for Fast Photo Animation](https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/transinf/E107.D/1/E107.D_2023EDP7061/_pdf) |[HP](https://tachibanayoshino.github.io/AnimeGANv3/) |
  | 2023 | ICCV | [Scenimefy: Learning to Craft Anime Scene via Semi-Supervised Image-to-Image Translation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12968) | [Github](https://github.com/Yuxinn-J/Scenimefy) |
  | 2023 | CVPR | [Interactive Cartoonization with Controllable Perceptual Factors](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2023/papers/Ahn_Interactive_Cartoonization_With_Controllable_Perceptual_Factors_CVPR_2023_paper.pdf)  | |
  | 2022 | ACM-MM | [Cartoon-Flow: A Flow-Based Generative Adversarial Network for Arbitrary-Style Photo Cartoonization](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3503161.3548094)  | |
  | 2022 | ICML | [Learning to Incorporate Texture Saliency Adaptive Attention to Image Cartoonization](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/gao22k/gao22k.pdf)  | |
  | 2022 | AAAI | [Unsupervised Coherent Video Cartoonization with Perceptual Motion Consistency](https://www.aaai.org/AAAI22Papers/AAAI-6861.ZhenahuanL.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | MVIP | [ARGAN: Fast Converging GAN for Animation Style Transfer](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9738752)  | [Github](https://github.com/amirzenoozi/ARGAN) |
  | 2022 | ICCECE | [Transfer photo to anime with dual discriminators GAN](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9712766) | |
  | 2021 | 3ICT | [Cartoonize Images using TinyML Strategies with Transfer Learning](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9581835)  | |
  | 2021 | IEEE Access | [Pseudo-Supervised Learning for Semantic Multi-Style Transfer](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9316188)  |
  | 2021 | TVCG | [GAN-based Multi-Style Photo Cartoonization](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9382902)  | |
  | 2020 | ISICA | [AnimeGAN: a novel lightweight GAN for photo animation](https://github.com/TachibanaYoshino/AnimeGAN/blob/master/doc/Chen2020_Chapter_AnimeGAN.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/TachibanaYoshino/AnimeGAN) |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [Generative Adversarial Networks for photo to Hayao Miyazaki style cartoons](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.07702.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/FilipAndersson245/cartoon-gan) |
  | 2020 | CVPR | [Learning to Cartoonize Using White-box Cartoon Representations](https://github.com/SystemErrorWang/White-box-Cartoonization/blob/master/paper/06791.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/SystemErrorWang/White-box-Cartoonization) |
  | 2020 | MMM | [CartoonRenderer: An Instance-based Multi-Style Cartoon Image Translator](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.06102.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [GANILLA: Generative adversarial networks for image to illustration translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.05638.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/giddyyupp/ganilla) |
  | 2018 | Arxiv | [Comixify: Transform video into a comics](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03473.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/maciej3031/comixify) |
  | 2018 | CVPR | [CartoonGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Photo Cartoonization](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Chen_CartoonGAN_Generative_Adversarial_CVPR_2018_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/znxlwm/pytorch-CartoonGAN) |

Sketch 2 Anime

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | ACM-TG | [AniFaceDrawing: Anime Portrait Exploration during Your Sketching](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07476) | [HP](http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~xie/AniFaceDrawing.html) |
  | 2022 | TNNLS | [PMSGAN: Parallel Multistage GANs for Face Image Translation](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10014017)  | |
  | 2022 | FDG | [SketchBetween: Video-to-Video Synthesis for Sprite Animation via Sketches](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.00185.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | TVCG | [Deep Sketch-guided Cartoon Video Inbetweening](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04149.pdf)  | |
  | 2020 | NeurIPS | [How to train your conditional GAN: An approach using geometrically structured latent manifolds](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.13055.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | ECCV | [Modeling Artistic Workflows for Image Generation and Editing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.07238.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/hytseng0509/ArtEditing) |
  | 2019 | Arxiv | [PI-REC: Progressive Image Reconstruction Network With Edge and Color Domain](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.10146.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/youyuge34/PI-REC) |
  | 2019 | FITEE | [SmartPaint: a co-creative drawing system based on generative adversarial networks](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1631/FITEE.1900386.pdf) | |

Photo 2 Manga

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2021 | AAAI | [MangaGAN: Unpaired Photo-to-Manga Translation Based on The Methodology of Manga Drawing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.10634.pdf) | |

Anime 2 Costume

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation via Image-to-Image Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.11479.pdf) | |

Style transfer

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2024 | IJCAI | [Diffutoon: High-Resolution Editable Toon Shading via Diffusion Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.16224) | [HP](https://ecnu-cilab.github.io/DiffutoonProjectPage/) |
  | 2023 | CVPR | [LANIT: Language-Driven Image-to-Image Translation for Unlabeled Data](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.14889.pdf) | | [Github](https://github.com/KU-CVLAB/LANIT) |
  | 2022 | TCSVT | [HRInversion: High-Resolution GAN Inversion for Cross-Domain Image Synthesis](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9953153) | |
  | 2022 | NeurIPS | [Towards Diverse and Faithful One-shot Adaption of Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.08736.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/1170300521/DiFa) |
  | 2022 | CVPR | [Pastiche Master: Exemplar-Based High-Resolution Portrait Style Transfer](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.13248.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/williamyang1991/DualStyleGAN) |
  | 2022 | ICLR | [Mind the Gap: Domain Gap Control for Single Shot Domain Adaptation for Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.08398.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/ZPdesu/MindTheGap) |
  | 2022 | Arxiv | [Styleverse: Towards Identity Stylization across Heterogeneous Domains](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.00861.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | ICCECE | [Unsupersived Image Texture Transfer Based On Generative Adversarial Network](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9712754) | |
  | 2021 | VSIP | [Cross-modal and Semantics-Augmented Asymmetric CycleGAN for Data-Imbalanced Anime Style Face Translation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3503961.3503969) |  |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [JoJoGAN: One Shot Face Stylization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.11641.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/mchong6/JoJoGAN) |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [Fine-Grained Control of Artistic Styles in Image Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10278.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [Few-shot Semantic Image Synthesis Using StyleGAN Prior](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.14877.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/endo-yuki-t/Fewshot-SMIS) |
  | 2020 | CSICC | [StarGAN Based Facial Expression Transfer for Anime Characters](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9050061) | |
  | 2019 | IEEE Access | [RAG: Facial Attribute Editing by Learning Residual Attributes](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334058885_RAG_Facial_Attribute_Editing_by_Learning_Residual_Attributes) | |
  | 2019 | Arxiv| [Disentangling Style and Content in Anime Illustrations](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.10742v2.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/stormraiser/adversarial-disentangle) |
  | 2018 | Arxiv  | [Anime Style Space Exploration Using Metric Learning and Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.07997v1.pdf) | |

Author Style transfer

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | ICIP | [Translation of Illustration Artist Style Using Sailormoonredraw Data](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9897787) |  |

Video Generation

Text-to-Video

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2026 | Arxiv | [ANIMATRIX: AN ANIME VIDEO GENERATION MODEL THATTHINKS IN ART, NOT PHYSICS](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.03652) | |
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [PTTA: A PURE TEXT-TO-ANIMATION FRAMEWORK FOR HIGH-QUALITY CREATION](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.18614) | |
  | 2025 | IJCAI | [AniSora: Exploring the Frontiers of Animation Video Generation in the Sora Era](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.10255) | [Github](https://github.com/bilibili/Index-anisora) |
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [Aligning Anime Video Generation with Human Feedback](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.10044v2) | [Github](https://github.com/bilibili/Index-anisora) |

Image-to-Video

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2025 | ICCV | [VACE: All-in-One Video Creation and Editing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07598) | [Github](https://github.com/ali-vilab/VACE) |
  | 2025 | ICCV | [LayerAnimate: Layer-level Control for Animation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/papers/Yang_LayerAnimate_Layer-level_Control_for_Animation_ICCV_2025_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/IamCreateAI/LayerAnimate) |
  | 2025 | CVPR | [PhysAnimator: Physics-Guided Generative Cartoon Animation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Xie_PhysAnimator_Physics-Guided_Generative_Cartoon_Animation_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf) | [HP](https://xpandora.github.io/PhysAnimator/) |
  | 2024 | ICLR | [ANIMATEDIFF: ANIMATE YOUR PERSONALIZEDTEXT-TO-IMAGE DIFFUSION MODELS WITHOUTSPECIFIC TUNING](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.04725) | [Github](https://github.com/guoyww/AnimateDiff) |
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [AnimateDiff-Lightning: Cross-Model Diffusion Distillation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12706) | [HF](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance/AnimateDiff-Lightning) |
  | 2024 | TCSVT | [Hierarchical Feature Warping and Blending for Talking Head Animation](https://gwern.net/doc/ai/anime/2024-zhang.pdf) | |
  | 2023 | TMM | [Language-Guided Face Animation by Recurrent StyleGAN-based Generator](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.05617.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/TiankaiHang/language-guided-animation) |
  | 2023 | IJCAI | [Collaborative Neural Rendering using Anime Character Sheets](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.05378.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/megvii-research/CONR) |
  | 2020 | ACCV | [CPTNet: Cascade Pose Transform Network for Single Image Talking Head Animation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ACCV2020/papers/Zhang_CPTNet_Cascade_Pose_Transform_Network_for_Single_Image_Talking_Head_ACCV_2020_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | SIGGRAPH Asia | [MakeItTalk: Speaker-Aware Talking-Head Animation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.12992.pdf) | |

Colorization

NoHint

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2018 | ISCID | [Automatic Sketch Colorization with Tandem Conditional Adversarial Networks](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8695564) | |
  | 2019 | IJNDC | [Do You Like Sclera? Sclera-region Detection and Colorization for Anime Character Line Drawings](https://www.atlantis-press.com/journals/ijndc/125913573) | |
  | 2019 | IJPE | [Colorization for Anime Sketches with Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Network](http://www.ijpe-online.com/EN/abstract/abstract4089.shtml) | |
  | 2021 | MDPI-AS | [Seg2pix: Few Shot Training Line Art Colorization with Segmented Image Data](https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/4/1464) | |
  | 2021 | - | [Semi-automatic Manga Colorization Using Conditional Adversarial Networks](https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/anime/2021-golyadkin.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/qweasdd/manga-colorization) |
  | 2021 | ICPR | [Stylized-Colorization for Line Arts](https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/anime/2021-fang.pdf)  | |
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [Generative Probabilistic Image Colorization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14518.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | CHI | [FlatMagic: Improving Flat Colorization through AI-driven Design for Digital Comic Professionals](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3502075) | [Github](https://cragl.cs.gmu.edu/flatmagic/) |
  | 2022 | ICCIR | [Attention-Based Unsupervised Sketch Colorization of Anime Avatar](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3548608.3559316) | |
  | 2023 | IEEE Access| [Robust Manga Page Colorization via Coloring Latent Space](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10278137)| |
  | 2026 | CHI | [No Pixel Left Behind: Filling Gaps in Anime Colorization](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3772318.3790968) | [Github](https://github.com/marc2825/GapFill) |
  | 2026 | WACV | [Diverse Sketch Colorization with Content-Enhanced Style Representation and Recolorization Distillation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2026/papers/Mao_Diverse_Sketch_Colorization_with_Content-Enhanced_Style_Representation_and_Recolorization_Distillation_WACV_2026_paper.pdf) | [Github]() |

Atari

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | CVPR Workshop | [Diffusart: Enhancing Line Art Colorization with Conditional Diffusion Models](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2023W/CVFAD/papers/Carrillo_Diffusart_Enhancing_Line_Art_Colorization_With_Conditional_Diffusion_Models_CVPRW_2023_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2023 | WACV | [Guiding Users to Where to Give Color Hints for Efficient Interactive Sketch Colorization via Unsupervised Region Prioritization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.14270.pdf)| |
  | 2022 | IVCNZ | [StencilTorch: An Iterative and User-Guided Framework for Anime Lineart Colorization](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1007/978-3-031-25825-1_1) | |
  | 2022 | WACV | [Late-resizing: A Simple but Effective Sketch Extraction Strategy for Improving Generalization of Line-art Colorization](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2022/papers/Kim_Late-Resizing_A_Simple_but_Effective_Sketch_Extraction_Strategy_for_Improving_WACV_2022_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | SIGGRAPH Asia | [Interactive Manga Colorization with Fast Flat Coloring](https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3476124.3488628) | |
  | 2021 | TIP | [Dual Color Space Guided Sketch Colorization](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9515572) | |
  | 2021 | ICCV | [Deep Edge-Aware Interactive Colorization against Color-Bleeding Effects](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.01619.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | CVPR | [User-Guided Line Art Flat Filling with Split Filling Mechanism](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Zhang_User-Guided_Line_Art_Flat_Filling_With_Split_Filling_Mechanism_CVPR_2021_paper.pdf) | [HP](https://lllyasviel.github.io/SplitFilling/) |
  | 2021 | CVPR Workshop | [Line Art Colorization with Concatenated Spatial Attention](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021W/CVFAD/papers/Yuan_Line_Art_Colorization_With_Concatenated_Spatial_Attention_CVPRW_2021_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | MDPI-AS | [Automatic Colorization of Anime Style Illustrations Using a Two-Stage Generator](https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/23/8699) | |
  | 2020 | ICCST | [Cartoon image colorization based on emotion recognition and superpixel color resolution](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9262834) | |
  | 2019 | CSAI | [User Guided Digital Artwork Colorization](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3374587.3374604) | |
  | 2019 | IEEE Access | [Two-Stage Sketch Colorization With Color Parsing](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8944253)  | |
  | 2019 | ICIP | [MANGAN: ASSISTING COLORIZATION OF MANGA CHARACTERS CONCEPT ART USING CONDITIONAL GAN](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8803667) | [Github](https://github.com/felipelodur/ManGAN) |
  | 2019 | CISP-BMEI | [Semi-Auto Sketch Colorization Based on Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8965999) | |
  | 2019 | TAAI | [Interactive Anime Sketch Colorization with Style Consistency via a Deep Residual Neural Network](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8959911) | |
  | 2019 | CVMP | [PaintsTorch: a User-Guided Anime Line Art Colorization Tool with Double Generator Conditional Adversarial Network](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359998.3369401) | |
  | 2019 | Engineering Letters | [Anime Sketch Coloring with Swish-gated Residual U-net and Spectrally Normalized GAN](http://www.engineeringletters.com/issues_v27/issue_3/EL_27_3_01.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/pradeeplam/Anime-Sketch-Coloring-with-Swish-Gated-Residual-UNet) |
  | 2018 | ACM-TG | [Two-stage Sketch Colorization](https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints/blob/master/papers/sa.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints) |
  | 2018 | ACM-MC | [User-Guided Deep Anime Line Art Colorization with Conditional Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.03240.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/orashi/AlacGAN) |
  | 2018 | Neurocomputing | [Auto-painter: Cartoon Image Generation from Sketch by Using Conditional Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.01908.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/irfanICMLL/Auto_painter) |
  | 2018 | EG | [A Fast and Efficient Semi-guided Algorithm for Flat Coloring Line-arts](https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01891876/document)| |
  | 2017 | Arxiv | [Outline Colorization through Tandem Adversarial Networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.08834.pdf) | |
  | 2011 | NPAR | [TexToons: Practical Texture Mapping for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations](https://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/Sykora11-NPAR.pdf) | |
  | 2006 | ACM-TG | [Manga Colorization](http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/manga/manga.pdf) | |

Reference

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
  | 2026 | CVPR | [Towards High-resolution and Disentangled Reference-based Sketch Colorization](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/papers/Yan_Towards_High-resolution_and_Disentangled_Reference-based_Sketch_Colorization_CVPR_2026_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/tellurion-kanata/ColorizeDiffusionXL) | 
  | 2025 | ICCV | [MagicColor: Multi-Instance Sketch Colorization](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/papers/Zhang_MagicColor_Multi-Instance_Sketch_Colorization_ICCV_2025_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/YinHan-Zhang/MagicColor) | 
  | 2025 | CVPR | [Image Referenced Sketch Colorization Based on Animation Creation Workflow](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Yan_Image_Referenced_Sketch_Colorization_Based_on_Animation_Creation_Workflow_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/tellurion-kanata/colorizeDiffusion) | 
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04283) | [GitHub](https://github.com/Giventicket/SSIMBaD-Sigma-Scaling-with-SSIM-Guided-Balanced-Diffusion-for-AnimeFace-Colorization) |
  | 2025 | SIGGRAPH | [Cobra: Efficient Line Art COlorization with BRoAder References](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12240) | [HP](https://zhuang2002.github.io/Cobra/) |
  | 2025 | ACM-TG | [ColorizeDiffusion v2: Enhancing Reference-based Sketch Colorization Through Separating Utilities](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06895) | [GitHub](https://github.com/tellurion-kanata/colorizeDiffusion) |
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [MangaNinja: Line Art Colorization with Precise Reference Following](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08332) | [HP](https://johanan528.github.io/MangaNinjia/) |
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [MangaDiT: Reference-Guided Line Art Colorization with Hierarchical Attention in Diffusion Transformers](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09709?) | [Github](https://github.com/CyberAgentAILab/MangaDiT) |
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [ColorFlow: Retrieval-Augmented Image Sequence Colorization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11815) | [Github](https://github.com/TencentARC/ColorFlow) |
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [ColorizeDiffusion: Adjustable Sketch Colorization with Reference Image and Text](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.01456.pdf) | |
  | 2024 | CVPR | [Learning Inclusion Matching for Animation Paint Bucket Coloriation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.18342) | [HP](https://ykdai.github.io/projects/InclusionMatching) |
  | 2023 | CGF | [Two-Step Training: Adjustable Sketch Colourization via Reference Image and Text Tag](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/cgf.14791) | [Github](https://github.com/ydk-tellurion/sketch_colorizer) |
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [AnimeDiffusion: Anime Face Line Drawing Colorization via Diffusion Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11137.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | ICME  | [ATTENTION-AWARE ANIME LINE DRAWING COLORIZATION](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.10988.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | NicoInt | [Semi-Automatic Colorization Pipeline for Anime Characters and its Evaluation in Production](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9848507) | |
  | 2022 | ICASSP | [Improving Reference-Based Image Colorization For Line Arts Via Feature Aggregation And Contrastive Learning](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9746326) | |
  | 2022 | ECCV | [Eliminating Gradient Conflict in Reference-based Line-Art Colorization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.06095.pdf)| [Github](https://github.com/kunkun0w0/SGA) |
  | 2022 | Mathematics | [Exemplar-Based Sketch Colorization with Cross-Domain Dense Semantic Correspondence](https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/10/12/1988/htm) | |
  | 2022 | CVM | [Reference-guided structure-aware deep sketch colorization for cartoons](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41095-021-0228-6.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | TMM | [Multi-Density Sketch-to-Image Translation Network](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.10649.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | SIGGRAPH Asia | [Anime Character Colorization using Few-shot Learning](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3478512.3488604) | |
  | 2021 | IET-IP | [Disentangled and controllable sketch creation based ondisentangling the structure and color enhancement](https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ipr2.12343) | |
  | 2021 | ICIP | [PAINTING STYLE-AWARE MANGA COLORIZATION BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.07943.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | CGI | [Exploring Sketch-based Character Design Guided by Automatic Colorization](https://rawanmg.github.io/pdf/gi21.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | ICME | [Anime Style Transfer With Spatially-Adaptive Normalization](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9428305)  | |
  | 2021 | ICPR | [Anime Sketch Colorization by Component-based Matching using Deep Appearance Features and Graph Representation](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9412507) | |
  | 2020 | EG | [Colorization of Line Drawings with Empty Pupils](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347703757_Colorization_of_Line_Drawings_with_Empty_Pupils) | |
  | 2020 | EG | [Deep-Eyes: Fully Automatic Anime Character Colorization with Painting of Details on Empty Pupils](https://www.gwern.net/docs/ai/anime/2020-akita.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | CVPR | [Reference-Based Sketch Image Colorization using Augmented-Self Reference and Dense Semantic Correspondence](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05207.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/Jungjaewon/Reference_based_Skectch_Image_Colorization) |
  | 2020 | TMM | [Semantic Example Guided Image-to-Image Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.13028.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | SIGGRAPH | [Graph Matching based Anime Colorization with Multiple References](https://ahcweb01.naist.jp/papers/conference/2019/201907_SIGGRAPH2019_s-nakamura/201907_SIGGRAPH_s-nakamura.slides.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | SIGGRAPH | [Fully Automatic Colorization for Anime Character Considering Accurate Eye Colors](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3306214.3338585) | |
  | 2018 | - | [Attentioned Deep Paint](https://github.com/ktaebum/AttentionedDeepPaint/blob/master/poster.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/ktaebum/AttentionedDeepPaint) |
  | 2017 | ACIS SNPD | [Automatic manga colorization with color style by generative adversarial nets](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8022768) | |
  | 2017 | SIGGRAPH | [Comicolorization: Semi-Automatic Manga Colorization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06759.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/DwangoMediaVillage/Comicolorization) |
  | 2017 | ICDAR | [cGAN-based Manga Colorization Using a Single Training Image](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06918.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/sudheerachary/Manga_Colorization) |
  | 2017 | ACPR | [Style Transfer for Anime Sketches with Enhanced Residual U-net and Auxiliary Classifier GAN](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03319.pdf) | |
  | 2017 | IIAI | [Deep Manga Colorization with Color Style Extraction by Conditional Adversarially Learned Inference](http://www.iaiai.org/journals/index.php/IEE/article/view/214) | |
  | 2014 | SIGGRAPH | [Reference-based Manga Colorization by Graph Correspondence Using Quadratic Programming](http://yusukematsui.me/pdf/sato_sa2014.pdf) | |
  | 2004 | NPAR | [Unsupervised Colorization of Black-and-White Cartoons](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.95.2629&rep=rep1&type=pdf) | |

Tag

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2021 | PG | [Line Art Colorization Based on Explicit Region Segmentation](https://www.sysu-imsl.com/files/PG2021/line_art_colorization_pg2021_main.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | ICCV | [Tag2Pix: Line Art Colorization Using Text Tag With SECat and Changing Loss](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/papers/Kim_Tag2Pix_Line_Art_Colorization_Using_Text_Tag_With_SECat_and_ICCV_2019_paper.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/blandocs/Tag2Pix) |

Video

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
  | 2026 | arXiv | [Uni-Animator: Towards Unified Visual Colorization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23191) | | 
  | 2026 | arXiv | [OmniColor: A Unified Framework for Multi-modal Lineart Colorization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27531) | [Github](https://github.com/zhangxulu1996/OmniColor) |
  | 2026 | ICLR | [ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10881?) | [Github](https://github.com/TencentARC/ToonComposer) |
  | 2025 | ICCV | [A Unified Framework for Industrial Cel-Animation Colorization with Temporal-Structural Awareness](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/papers/Feng_A_Unified_Framework_for_Industrial_Cel-Animation_Colorization_with_Temporal-Structural_Awareness_ICCV_2025_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2025 | ICCV | [LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/papers/Chen_LongAnimation_Long_Animation_Generation_with_Dynamic_Global-Local_Memory_ICCV_2025_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/CN-makers/LongAnimation) |
  | 2025 | CVPR | [AniDoc: Animation Creation Made Easier](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/papers/Meng_AniDoc_Animation_Creation_Made_Easier_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/ant-research/AniDoc) | 
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [InstanceAnimator: Multi-Instance Sketch Video Colorization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25357) | [Github](https://github.com/YinHan-Zhang/InstanceAnimator) | 
  | 2024 | ACM-TG | [LVCD: Reference-based Lineart Video Colorization with Diffusion Models](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3687910) | [Github](https://github.com/luckyhzt/LVCD) |
  | 2023 | PR | [Coloring anime line art videos with transformation region enhancement network](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320323002625?casa_token=evjknkPkujoAAAAA:a0kjRw6hy3aaO9UAkINCtXYlELCDMDQu5RykR6k7qNeRPaYsaBfR8_PNSg0R-MsIs3vOCePOTfYh) |  |
  | 2021 | ICCV | [The Animation Transformer: Visual Correspondence via Segment Matching](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.02614.pdf)  | [Video](https://cadmium.app/) |
  | 2021 | WACV  | [Line Art Correlation Matching Feature Transfer Network for Automatic Animation Colorization](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2021/papers/Zhang_Line_Art_Correlation_Matching_Feature_Transfer_Network_for_Automatic_Animation_WACV_2021_paper.pdf) | |  
  | 2020 | TVCG | [Deep Line Art Video Colorization with a Few References](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.10685.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | ICCV Workshop | [Artist-Guided Semiautomatic Animation Colorization](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCVW_2019/papers/CVFAD/Thasarathan_Artist-Guided_Semiautomatic_Animation_Colorization_ICCVW_2019_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | CCCRV | [Automatic Temporally Coherent Video Colorization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09527.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/Harry-Thasarathan/TCVC) |

Editing

Lighting

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | ICIP | [Automatic Illumination of Flat-Colored Drawings by 3D Augmentation of 2D Silhouettes](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9897386) | |
  | 2021 | ICCV | [SmartShadow: Artistic Shadow Drawing Tool for Line Drawings](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/papers/Zhang_SmartShadow_Artistic_Shadow_Drawing_Tool_for_Line_Drawings_ICCV_2021_paper.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | CVPR | [Learning to Shadow Hand-drawn Sketches](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11812.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/qyzdao/ShadeSketch) |
  | 2020 | ACM-TG | [Generating Digital Painting Lighting Effects via RGB-space Geometry](https://lllyasviel.github.io/PaintingLight/files/TOG20PaintingLight.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/lllyasviel/PaintingLight) |
  | 2019 | CVMP | [Augmenting Hand-Drawn Art with Global Illumination Effects through Surface Inflation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3359998.3369400) | [HP](https://v-sense.scss.tcd.ie/research/augmenting-hand-drawn-art-with-global-illumination-effects-through-surface-inflation/) |
  | 2018 | NPAR | [2D shading for cel animation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229147.3229148) | [HP](https://v-sense.scss.tcd.ie/research/vfx-animation/2d-shading-for-cel-animation/) |
  | 2018 | NeurIPS Workshop | [Automatic Illumination Effects for 2D Characters](https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/Automatic_Illumination_Effects_for_2D_Characters.pdf) | |
  | 2018 | ECCV Workshop | [Deep Normal Estimation for Automatic Shading of Hand-Drawn Characters](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ECCVW_2018/papers/11131/Hudon_Deep_Normal_Estimation_for_Automatic_Shading_of_Hand-Drawn_Characters_ECCVW_2018_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/V-Sense/DeepNormals) |
  | 2014 | ACM-TG | [Ink-and-Ray: Bas-Relief Meshes for Adding Global Illumination Effects to Hand-Drawn Characters](https://dcgi.fel.cvut.cz/home/sykorad/Sykora14-TOG.pdf) |  |

Illustration Editing

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2026 | SIGGRAPH | [See-through: Single-image Layer Decomposition for Anime Characters](https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3799902.3811209) | [Github](https://github.com/shitagaki-lab/see-through) | 
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [Re:Draw - Context Aware Translation as a Controllable Method for Artistic Production](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03499.pdf) | | |
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [DreamTuner: Single Image is Enough for Subject-Driven Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.13691) | | |
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [Instance-guided Cartoon Editing with a Large-scale Dataset](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.01943.pdf) | | |
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [Reference-base Image Composition with Sketch via Structure-aware Diffusion Model](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.09748.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/kangyeolk/Paint-by-Sketch) |
  | 2023 | WACV | [DyStyle: Dynamic Neural Network for Multi-Attribute-Conditioned Style Editing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.10737.pdf) | | |
  | 2021 | NeurIPS | [Unsupervised Learning of Compositional Energy Concepts](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.03042.pdf) |  [Github](https://github.com/yilundu/comet) |
  | 2021 | ICME | [Universal Face Restoration With Memorized Modulation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01033.pdf) | | |
  | 2021 | ICIP | [Improving The Quality Of Illustrations: Transforming Amateur Illustrations To A Professional Standard](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9506615) | |
  | 2021 | NicoInt | [Sketch-based Anime Hairstyle Editing with Generative Inpainting](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9515963) | |
  | 2021 | TSP | [Deep Unfolding with Normalizing Flow Priors for Inverse Problems](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02848.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | CVPR | [L2M-GAN: Learning to Manipulate Latent Space Semantics for Facial Attribute Editing](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Yang_L2M-GAN_Learning_To_Manipulate_Latent_Space_Semantics_for_Facial_Attribute_CVPR_2021_paper.pdf)  | |
  | 2021 | TVCG | [Cross-Domain and Disentangled Face Manipulation with 3D Guidance](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.11228.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/cassiePython/cddfm3d) |
  | 2020 | ECCV | [Erasing Appearance Preservation in Optimization-based Smoothing](https://lllyasviel.github.io/AppearanceEraser/paper/paper.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/lllyasviel/AppearanceEraser) |
  | 2018 | Arxiv | [Spatially Controllable Image Synthesis with Internal Representation Collaging](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.10153.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/quolc/neural-collage) |
  | 2018 | PG | [Decomposing Images into Layers with Advanced Color Blending](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cgf.13577) | [Github](https://github.com/yuki-koyama/unblending) |

Sketch Editing

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | ICMR |  [Joint Geometric-Semantic Driven Character Line Drawing Generation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3591106.3592216) | 
  | 2023 | ACM-TG | [Semi-supervised reference-based sketch extraction using a contrastive learning framework](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FELTVl73OrQ9Q0uBXN7jLbRStSsF-NgM/view?pli=1)  | [Github](https://github.com/Chanuku/semi_ref2sketch_code) |
  | 2022 | ACM-TG | [Reference Based Sketch Extraction via Attention Mechanism](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3550454.3555504) | [Github](https://github.com/ref2sketch/ref2sketch) |
  | 2022 | AAAI | [End-to-End Line Drawing Vectorization](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/download/20379/20138)  | |
  | 2022 | CW |  [A Drawing Support System for Sketching Aging Anime Faces](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9937356) | |
  | 2021 | NicoInt | [One-shot Line Extraction from Color Illustrations](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9515964) | |
  | 2020 | ACM-MM | [SketchMan: Learning to Create Professional Sketches](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3394171.3413720)  | [Github](https://github.com/LCXCUC/SketchMan2020) |
  | 2020 | MDPI-AS | [Progressive Full Data Convolutional Neural Networks for Line Extraction from Anime-Style Illustrations](https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/1/41) | |
  | 2019 | TVCG | [Perceptual-aware Sketch Simplification Based on Integrated VGG Layers](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8771128) | |
  | 2019 | SIGGRAPH | [Unpaired Sketch-to-Line Translation via Synthesis of Sketches](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3355088.3365163)  | |
  | 2018 | ACM-TG| [Real-Time Data-Driven Interactive Rough Sketch Inking](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3197517.3201370) | [Github](https://github.com/bobbens/line_thinning) |
  | 2018 | ACM-TG| [Mastering Sketching: Adversarial Augmentation for Structured Prediction](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.08966.pdf) |  [Github](https://github.com/bobbens/sketch_simplification) |
  | 2017 | ACM-TG | [Deep Extraction of Manga Structural Lines](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3072959.3073675) | [Github](https://github.com/ljsabc/MangaLineExtraction) |
  | 2016 | ACM-TG | [Learning to Simplify: Fully Convolutional Networks for Rough Sketch Cleanup](https://esslab.jp/~ess/publications/SimoSerraSIGGRAPH2016.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/bobbens/sketch_simplification) |
  | 2011 | NPAR | [Temporal Noise Control for Sketchy Animation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2024676.2024691)  |

Interpolation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2024 | ACM-TG | [ToonCrafter: Generative Cartoon Interpolation](https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3687761) | [Github](https://github.com/Doubiiu/ToonCrafter) |
  | 2023 | MTA | [Automatic Animation Inbetweening](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-023-17354-x) | |
  | 2023 | ICCV | [Deep Geometrized Cartoon Line Inbetweening](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2023/papers/Siyao_Deep_Geometrized_Cartoon_Line_Inbetweening_ICCV_2023_paper.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/lisiyao21/animeinbet) |
  | 2022 | ICIP | [Enhanced Deep Animation Video Interpolation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.12657.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/laomao0/AutoSktFI) |
  | 2022 | ECCV | [Improving the Perceptual Quality of 2D Animation Interpolation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.12792.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/ShuhongChen/eisai-anime-interpolator/) |
  | 2021 | CVPR | [Deep Animation Video Interpolation in the Wild](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.02495.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/lisiyao21/AnimeInterp/) |
  | 2019 | ICIP | [Optical Flow Based Line Drawing Frame Interpolation Using Distance Transform to Support Inbetweenings](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8803506) | |
  | 2017 | CMV | [DiLight: Digital light table – Inbetweening for 2D animations using guidelines](http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2017/CMV17/pdf.pdf) | |

Automatic Image Enhancement

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2024 | CVPR | [APISR: Anime Production Inspired Real-World Anime Super-Resolution](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.01598.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/Kiteretsu77/APISR) |
  | 2022 | NeurIPS | [AnimeSR: Learning Real-World Super-Resolution Models for Animation Videos](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07038.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/TencentARC/AnimeSR) |
  | 2022 | Sensors | [A Transformer-Based Model for Super-Resolution of Anime Image](https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/21/8126) | |
  | 2021 | ICCV Workshop | [Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10833.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN) |
  | 2021 | JSCI | [Enhancement of Anime Imaging Enlargement using Modified Super-Resolution CNN](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.02321.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/TanakitInt/SRCNN-anime) |

Background Removal

| **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
| 2025 | arXiv | [ToonOut: Fine-tuned Background-Removal for Anime Characters](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06839) |[Github](https://github.com/MatteoKartoon/BiRefNet) |

Manga Application

Classification

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | TIP | [Panel-Page-Aware Comic Genre Understanding](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10112648) |  |

Generation

| **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 2025 | Arxiv | [DreamingComics: A Story Visualization Pipeline via Subject and Layout Customized Generation using Video Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.01686) |  |
| 2025 | Arxiv | [Panel-by-Panel Souls: A Performative Workflow for Expressive Faces in AI-Assisted Manga Creation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16038) |  |
| 2025 | Arxiv | [Retrieval Augmented Comic Image Generation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09140) |  |
| 2024 | Arxiv | [Sketch2Manga: Shaded Manga Screening from Sketch with Diffusion Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08266) | [Github](https://github.com/dmMaze/sketch2manga) |
| 2021 | CVPR | [Generating Manga from Illustrations via Mimicking Manga Workflow](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Zhang_Generating_Manga_From_Illustrations_via_Mimicking_Manga_Creation_Workflow_CVPR_2021_paper.pdf) | [HP](https://lllyasviel.github.io/MangaFilter/) |
| 2020 | ICAART | [Hair Shading Style Transfer for Manga with cGAN](https://www.scitepress.org/Papers/2020/89614/89614.pdf) | |
| 2020 | SIGGRAPH | [Manga Filling Style Conversion with Screentone Variational Autoencoder](http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/screenstyle/screenstyle.pdf) | |
| 2019 | ISM | [Synthesis of Screentone Patterns of Manga Characters](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8959008)  | |

Colorization

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | 2025 | arXiv | [Region-Wise Correspondence Prediction between Manga Line Art Images](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09501) |  |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2025 | arXiv | [MangaDiT: Reference-Guided Line Art Colorization with Hierarchical Attention in Diffusion Transformers](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09709) |  |

Restoration

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2021 | CVPR | [Exploiting Aliasing for Manga Restoration](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/papers/Xie_Exploiting_Aliasing_for_Manga_Restoration_CVPR_2021_paper.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/msxie92/MangaRestoration) |

Understanding

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2026 | arXiv | [CHROMIC: Chronological Reasoning Across Multi-Panel Comics](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.205.pdf)  | |
  | 2025 | arXiv | [Re:Verse - Can Your VLM Read a Manga?](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08508)  | |

Inpainting

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2021 | TOG | [Seamless Manga Inpainting with Semantics Awareness](http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/mangainpaint/mangainpaint.pdf)  | |

Editing

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2026 | Proceeding | [Inference-time Trajectory Optimization for Manga Image Editing](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27790) | |
  | 2023 | Arxiv | [Manga Rescreening with Interpretable Screentone Representation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.04114.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | SIGGRAPH Asia | [Comic Image Inpainting via Distance Transform](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3478512.3488607) | |

Text detection

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2020 | ACM-MM | [Learning from the Past: Meta-Continual Learning withKnowledge Embedding for Jointly Sketch, Cartoon, andCaricature Face Recognition](https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3394171.3413892) | |
  | 2020 | TST | [Deep Learning-Based Classification of the Polar Emotions of “Moe”-Style Cartoon Pictures](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9220754) | |
  | 2019 | ICDAR Worshop | [CNN based Extraction of Panels/Characters from Bengali Comic Book Page Images](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8893046)  | |
  | 2011 | IJIP | [Method for Real Time Text Extraction of Digital Manga Comic](https://www.cscjournals.org/manuscript/Journals/IJIP/Volume4/Issue6/IJIP-290.pdf) | |

Landmark detection

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2018 | Arxiv | [Facial Landmark Detection for Manga Images](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.03214.pdf) | [GitHub](https://github.com/oaugereau/FacialLandmarkManga) |

Segmentation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
  | 2025 | Arxiv | [Advancing Manga Analysis: Comprehensive Segmentation Annotations for the Manga109 Dataset](https://openaccess.thecvf.com//content/CVPR2025/papers/Xie_Advancing_Manga_Analysis_Comprehensive_Segmentation_Annotations_for_the_Manga109_Dataset_CVPR_2025_paper.pdf) | [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/MS92/MangaSegmentation) |
  | 2022 | ICPR | [Towards Content-Aware Pixel-Wise Comic Panel Segmentation](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-37742-6_1) | |
  | 2020 | ISM | [Extraction of Frame Sequences in the Manga Context](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9327968) | |

Translation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2021 | AAAI | [Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.14271.pdf)  | |

Depth Estimation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | WACV | [Estimating Image Depth in the Comics Domain](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.03575.pdf) | |

Vectorization

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [Raster Manga Vectorization via Primitive-wise Deep Reinforcement Learning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.04830.pdf) | |

Re-Identification

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2024 | ACM-MM | [Zero-Shot Character Identification and Speaker Prediction in Comics via Iterative Multimodal Fusion](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.13993) | |
  | 2022 | Arxiv | [Unsupervised Manga Character Re-identification via Face-body and Spatial-temporal Associated Clustering](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.04621.pdf) | |

Representation Learning

Representation Learning

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2015 | SIGGRAPH | [Illustration2Vec: A Semantic Vector Representation of Illustrations](https://www.gwern.net/docs/anime/2015-saito.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/rezoo/illustration2vec) |

Pose Estimation

Pose Estimation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2024 | Arxiv | [VLPose: Bridging the Domain Gap in Pose Estimation with Language-Vision Tuning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14456) | |
  | 2022 | WACV | [Transfer Learning for Pose Estimation of Illustrated Characters](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.01819.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/ShuhongChen/bizarre-pose-estimator) |
  | 2016 | MANPU | [Pose Estimation of Anime/Manga Characters: A Case for Synthetic Data](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~pramook/papers/manpu2016.pdf) | |

Image Retrieval

Image Retrieval

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2021 | Arxiv | [AugNet: End-to-End Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning with Image Augmentation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.06250.pdf) |  [Github](https://github.com/chenmingxiang110/AugNet) |
  | 2017 | MTA | [Sketch-based Manga Retrieval using Manga109 Dataset](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.04389.pdf) | |

Visual Correspondence

Visual Correspondence

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2016 | ACM-TG | [Globally Optimal Toon Tracking](http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/toontrack/toontrack.pdf)  | [HP](http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/toontrack/toontrack.html) |

Character Recognition

Character Recognition

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | IEEE Access | [Hierarchical Multi-Label Attribute Classification With Graph Convolutional Networks on Anime Illustration](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10097719) | | 
  | 2022 | ICIP | [GCN-Based Multi-Modal Multi-Label Attribute Classification in Anime Illustration Using Domain-Specific Semantic Features](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9898071) | |
  | 2022 | Arxiv | [AniWho : A Quick and Accurate Way to Classify Anime Character Faces in Images](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.11012.pdf) | |
  | 2022 | ECCV | [Open-Vocabulary DETR with Conditional Matching](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.11876.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/yuhangzang/OV-DETR) |
  | 2022 | EG |  [CAST: CHARACTER LABELING IN ANIMATION USING SELF-SUPERVISION BY TRACKING](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.07619.pdf) | |
  | 2021 | TIP | [Graph Jigsaw Learning for Cartoon Face Recognition](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06532.pdf) | |
  | 2020 | IJCAI | [ACFD: Asymmetric Cartoon Face Detector](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00899.pdf)  | | 
  | 2020 | ACM-MM | [Learning from the Past: Meta-Continual Learning withKnowledge Embedding for Jointly Sketch, Cartoon, andCaricature Face Recognition](https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3394171.3413892) | |
  | 2020 | TST | [Deep Learning-Based Classification of the Polar Emotions of “Moe”-Style Cartoon Pictures](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9220754) | |
  | 2019 | ICDAR Workshop | [CNN based Extraction of Panels/Characters from Bengali Comic Book Page Images](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8893046) | |
  | 2019 | ACM-TURC | [Progressive Deep Feature Learning for Manga Character Recognition via Unlabeled Training Data](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3321408.3322624) | |
  | 2018 | Arxiv | [Object Detection for Comics using Manga109 Annotations](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08670) | |

3D Character Creation

3D Character Creation

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2023 | NeurIPS | [DreamWaltz: Make a Scene with Complex 3D Animatable Avatars](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.12529.pdf)  | [Github](https://github.com/IDEA-Research/DreamWaltz) |
  | 2020 | ICCW | [Automatic Generation of 3D Natural Anime-like Non-Player Characters with Machine Learning](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9240508)  | |

Robotics

Robotics

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2020 | IROS | [Making Robots Draw A Vivid Portrait In Two Minutes](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05526.pdf) | |

Speech Synthesis

Speech Synthesis

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2025 | IEEE UEMCON | [Comparative Evaluation of Expressive Japanese Character Text-to-Speech with VITS and Style-BERT-VITS2](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17320) | |
  | 2019 | ACM-TG | [Comic-Guided Speech Synthesis](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3355089.3356487)  | [HP](https://bitwangyujia.github.io/research/project/comic2speech.html) |

Adult Content Detection

Adult Content Detection

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2022 | IEEE Access | [A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Inappropriate Content Detection and Classification of YouTube Videos](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9696242)  |  |
  | 2021 | IEEE Access | [An Evaluation of Traditional and CNN-Based Feature Descriptors for Cartoon Pornography Detection](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9371684) |  |
  | 2019 | ACM SAC | [KidsGUARD: Fine Grained Approach for Child Unsafe Video Representation and Detection](https://precog.iiitd.edu.in/pubs/KidsGuard-cam-ready.pdf) | [Github](https://github.com/precog-iiitd/kidsguard-sac) |

Survey & Review

Survey & Review

  | **Year** | **Conference / Journal** | **Title** | **Links** |
  | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | 
  | 2025 | arXiv | [Comparing Human and AI Performance in Visual Storytelling through Creation of Comic Strips: A Case Study](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18641) ||
  | 2024 | under review | [One missing peace in Vision & Language: A survey on Comics Understanding](https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/awesome-comics-understanding) | [GitHub](https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/awesome-comics-understanding) |
  | 2023 | HSET | [Anime like Character Face Generation: A survey](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374705438_Anime-like_Character_Face_Generation_A_Survey) |  |
  | 2022 | IJCV | [Cartoon Image Processing: A Survey](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-022-01645-1) | |
  | 2020 | Arxiv | [Image Colorization: A Survey and Dataset](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.10774.pdf) | |
  | 2019 | TOPS | [Computational Approaches to Comics Analysis](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31705626/) | |
  | 2018 | - | [A Survey of Comics Research in Computer Science](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05490.pdf) | |

Projects

Summary of github or other types of projects that are related to anime or manga except above.

Repository

  - [Awesome-Animation-Research](https://github.com/zhenglinpan/Awesome-Animation-Research)

Datasets

  - [Layered Temporal Dataset for Anime Drawings](https://layered-anime.github.io/)
  - [TRIGGER dataset](https://www.nii.ac.jp/dsc/idr/trigger/)
  - [Anime Art](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/muoncollider/danbooru2020small)

Representation Learning

  - [Classification and vectorization of key-frames and face characters of anime](https://github.com/enmanuelmag/AnimeClassificator)

Image Generation

  ### GANs
  
  - [makegirlsmoe](https://github.com/makegirlsmoe/makegirlsmoe_web)
  - [ANIME305/Anime-GAN-tensorflow](https://github.com/ANIME305/Anime-GAN-tensorflow)
  - [jayleicn/AnimeGAN](https://github.com/jayleicn/animeGAN)
  - [FangYang970206/Anime_GAN](https://github.com/FangYang970206/Anime_GAN)
  - [pavitrakumar78/Anime-Face-GAN-Keras](https://github.com/pavitrakumar78/Anime-Face-GAN-Keras)
  - [forcecore/Keras-GAN-Animeface-Character](https://github.com/forcecore/Keras-GAN-Animeface-Character)
  - [tdrussell/IllustrationGAN](https://github.com/tdrussell/IllustrationGAN)
  - [m516825/Conditional-GAN](https://github.com/m516825/Conditional-GAN)
  - [bchao1/Anime-Generation](https://github.com/bchao1/Anime-Generation)
  
  ### Diffusion models
  
  - [harubaru/waifu-diffusion](https://github.com/harubaru/waifu-diffusion)
  - [DGSpitzer/Cyberpunk-Anime-Diffusion](https://huggingface.co/DGSpitzer/Cyberpunk-Anime-Diffusion)
  - [NovelAI](https://novelai.net/)
  - [Stable Diffusion Models](https://cyberes.github.io/stable-diffusion-models/)

Image-to-Image Tranlation

  - [Aixile/chainer-cyclegan](https://github.com/Aixile/chainer-cyclegan)
  - [SystemErrorWang/FacialCartoonization](https://github.com/SystemErrorWang/FacialCartoonization)
  - [experience-ml/cartoonize](https://github.com/experience-ml/cartoonize)
  - [racinmat/anime-style-transfer](https://github.com/racinmat/anime-style-transfer)
  - [TachibanaYoshino/AnimeGANv2](https://github.com/TachibanaYoshino/AnimeGANv2)
  - [XiaoSanGit/Real2Animation-video-generation](https://github.com/XiaoSanGit/Real2Animation-video-generation)
  - [Avatar Artist Using GAN](http://cs230.stanford.edu/projects_winter_2020/reports/32639139.pdf)
  - [Generating Cartoon Style Facial Expressions with StackGAN](https://cs230.stanford.edu/projects_fall_2019/reports/26242839.pdf)

Automatic Line Art Colorization

  - [style2paints](https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints)
  - [PaintsChainer](https://github.com/pfnet/PaintsChainer)
  - [Ugness/Line-Art-Colorization-SPADE](https://github.com/Ugness/Line-Art-Colorization-SPADE)
  - [sanjay235/Sketch2Color-anime-translation](https://github.com/sanjay235/Sketch2Color-anime-translation)
  - [Pengxiao-Wang/Style2Paints_V3](https://github.com/Pengxiao-Wang/Style2Paints_V3)
  - [GANime: Generating Anime and Manga Character Drawings from Sketches](http://cs230.stanford.edu/projects_winter_2020/posters/32226261.pdf)
  - [Line Drawing Colorization](http://cs231n.stanford.edu/reports/2017/pdfs/425.pdf)

Character Animating

  - [Talking Head Anime from a Single Image](https://github.com/pkhungurn/talking-head-anime-demo)
  - [Talking Head Anime from a Single Image 2: More Expressive](https://github.com/pkhungurn/talking-head-anime-2-demo)
  - [Talking Head(?) Anime from a Single Image 3: Now the Body Too](https://github.com/pkhungurn/talking-head-anime-3-demo)
  - [Neural Rendering with Attention: An Incremental Improvement for Anime Character Animation](https://github.com/transpchan/Live3D-v2)

Super Resolution

  - [waifu2x](https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x)
  - [Anime4K](https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K)
  - [goldhuang/SRGAN-PyTorch](https://github.com/goldhuang/SRGAN-PyTorch)
  - [Real-CUGAN](https://github.com/bilibili/ailab/blob/main/Real-CUGAN/README_EN.md)

Segmentation

- [jerryli27/AniSeg](https://github.com/jerryli27/AniSeg)
- [zymk9/Yet-Another-Anime-Segmenter](https://github.com/zymk9/Yet-Another-Anime-Segmenter)

Landmark Detection

  - [Anime face landmark detection by deep cascaded regression](https://github.com/kanosawa/anime_face_landmark_detection)
  - [Anime Face Detector using mmdet and mmpose](https://github.com/hysts/anime-face-detector)

Venues

  • TIP: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • TMM: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
  • PR: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition
  • TSP: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • CVPR: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • MMUL: IEEE MultiMedia
  • TVCG: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • MMM: International Conference on Multimedia Modeling
  • ECCV: European Conference on Computer Vision
  • NeurIPS: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
  • NeurIPS-DB: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Datasets and Benchmarks Track
  • ACM-MM: ACM Multimedia
  • ACM-TG: ACM Transaction on Graphics
  • ACM-TURC: ACM Turing Celebration Conference
  • ISICA: International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications
  • 3ICT: International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies
  • MDPI-AS: MDPI Applied Science
  • EG: EUROGRAPHICS
  • CGF: Computer Graphic Forum
  • CGI: Conference on Graphic Interface
  • IET-IP: IET Image Processing
  • ICME: International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
  • CCCRV: Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision
  • ICCW: International Conference on Cyberworlds
  • IROS: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
  • HSET: Highlights in Science Engineering and Technology
  • TOPS: Topics in Cognitive Science
  • COLING: Conference on Computational Linguistics
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