UniAnimate-DiT: Human Image Animation with Large-Scale Video Diffusion Transformer
An expanded version of UniAnimate based on Wan2.1
UniAnimate-DiT is based on a state-of-the-art DiT-based Wan2.1-14B-I2V model for consistent human image animation. This codebase is built upon DiffSynth-Studio, thanks for the nice open-sourced project.
Overview of the proposed UniAnimate-DiT
Before using this model, please create the conda environment and install DiffSynth-Studio from source code.
conda create -n UniAnimate-DiT python=3.9.21
# or conda create -n UniAnimate-DiT python=3.10.16 # Python>=3.10 is required for Unified Sequence Parallel (USP)
conda activate UniAnimate-DiT
# CUDA 11.8
pip install torch==2.5.0 torchvision==0.20.0 torchaudio==2.5.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
# CUDA 12.1
pip install torch==2.5.0 torchvision==0.20.0 torchaudio==2.5.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121
# CUDA 12.4
pip install torch==2.5.0 torchvision==0.20.0 torchaudio==2.5.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu124
git clone https://github.com/ali-vilab/UniAnimate-DiT.git
cd UniAnimate-DiT
pip install -e .
UniAnimate-DiT supports multiple Attention implementations. If you have installed any of the following Attention implementations, they will be enabled based on priority.
torch>=2.5.0 is recommended.)(i) Download Wan2.1-14B-I2V-720P models using huggingface-cli:
pip install "huggingface_hub[cli]"
huggingface-cli download Wan-AI/Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P --local-dir ./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P
Or download Wan2.1-14B-I2V-720P models using modelscope-cli:
pip install modelscope
modelscope download Wan-AI/Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P --local_dir ./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P
(ii) Download pretrained UniAnimate-DiT models (only include the weights of lora and additional learnable modules):
pip install modelscope
modelscope download xiaolaowx/UniAnimate-DiT --local_dir ./checkpoints
Or download UniAnimate-DiT models using huggingface-cli:
pip install "huggingface_hub[cli]"
huggingface-cli download ZheWang123/UniAnimate-DiT --local-dir ./checkpoints
(iii) Finally, the model weights will be organized in ./checkpoints/ as follows:
./checkpoints/
|---- dw-ll_ucoco_384.onnx
|---- UniAnimate-Wan2.1-14B-Lora-12000.ckpt
β---- yolox_l.onnx
Rescale the target pose sequence to match the pose of the reference image (you can also install pip install onnxruntime-gpu==1.18.1 for faster extraction on GPU.):
# reference image 1
python run_align_pose.py --ref_name data/images/WOMEN-Blouses_Shirts-id_00004955-01_4_full.jpg --source_video_paths data/videos/source_video.mp4 --saved_pose_dir data/saved_pose/WOMEN-Blouses_Shirts-id_00004955-01_4_full
# reference image 2
python run_align_pose.py --ref_name data/images/musk.jpg --source_video_paths data/videos/source_video.mp4 --saved_pose_dir data/saved_pose/musk
# reference image 3
python run_align_pose.py --ref_name data/images/WOMEN-Blouses_Shirts-id_00005125-03_4_full.jpg --source_video_paths data/videos/source_video.mp4 --saved_pose_dir data/saved_pose/WOMEN-Blouses_Shirts-id_00005125-03_4_full
# reference image 4
python run_align_pose.py --ref_name data/images/IMG_20240514_104337.jpg --source_video_paths data/videos/source_video.mp4 --saved_pose_dir data/saved_pose/IMG_20240514_104337
# reference image 5
python run_align_pose.py --ref_name data/images/10.jpg --source_video_paths data/videos/source_video.mp4 --saved_pose_dir data/saved_pose/10
# reference image 6
python run_align_pose.py --ref_name data/images/taiyi2.jpg --source_video_paths data/videos/source_video.mp4 --saved_pose_dir data/saved_pose/taiyi2
The processed target pose for demo videos will be in data/saved_pose. --ref_name denotes the path of reference image, --source_video_paths provides the source poses, --saved_pose_dir means the path of processed target poses.
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python examples/unianimate_wan/inference_unianimate_wan_480p.py
About 23G GPU memory is needed. After this, 81-frame video clips with 832x480 (hight x width) resolution will be generated under the ./outputs folder.
undefinedTips: you can also set cfg_scale=1.0 to save inference time, which disables classifier-free guidance and can double the speed with minimal performance impact. https://github.com/ali-vilab/UniAnimate-DiT/blob/c2c7019dbb081464271d470d750b7693ade10dd8/examples/unianimate_wan/inference_unianimate_wan_480p.py#L223-L224
undefinedTips: you can set num_persistent_param_in_dit to a small number to reduce VRAM required.
torch_dtype |
num_persistent_param_in_dit |
Speed | Required VRAM | Default Setting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| torch.bfloat16 | 7*10**9 (7B) | 20.5s/it | 23G | yes |
| torch.bfloat16 | 0 | 23.0s/it | 14G |
use_teacache=True to enable teacache, which can achieve about 4 times inference acceleration. It may have a slight impact on performance, and you can also use teacache to select the seed.If you have many GPUs for inference, we also support Unified Sequence Parallel (USP), note that python>=3.10 is required for Unified Sequence Parallel (USP):
pip install xfuser
torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=4 examples/unianimate_wan/inference_unianimate_wan_480p_usp.py
For long video generation, run the following comment, the tips above can also be used by yourself:
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python examples/unianimate_wan/inference_unianimate_wan_long_video_480p.py
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python examples/unianimate_wan/inference_unianimate_wan_720p.py
About 36G GPU memory is needed. After this, 81-frame video clips with 1280x720 resolution will be generated.
undefinedTips: you can also set cfg_scale=1.0 to save inference time, which disables classifier-free guidance and can double the speed with minimal performance impact. https://github.com/ali-vilab/UniAnimate-DiT/blob/c37c996740cb9584edbdf3b4db2fa9eb47526e30/examples/unianimate_wan/inference_unianimate_wan_720p.py#L224-L225
undefinedTips: you can set num_persistent_param_in_dit to a small number to reduce VRAM required.
torch_dtype |
num_persistent_param_in_dit |
Speed | Required VRAM | Default Setting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| torch.bfloat16 | 7*10**9 (7B) | 20.5s/it | 36G | yes |
| torch.bfloat16 | 0 | 23.0s/it | 26G |
use_teacache=True to enable teacache, which can achieve about 4 times inference acceleration. It may have a slight impact on performance, and you can also use teacache to select the seed.undefinedNote: Even though our model was trained on 832x480 resolution, we observed that direct inference on 1280x720 is usually allowed and produces satisfactory results.
For long video generation, run the following comment, the tips above can also be used by yourself:
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python examples/unianimate_wan/inference_unianimate_wan_long_video_720p.py
undefinedNote: We find use teacache for 720P long video generation may lead to inconsistent background. We still work on it. You can use teacache to select random seed and disenable teacache for ideal results.
We support UniAnimate-DiT training on our own dataset.
pip install peft lightning pandas
# deepspeed for multiple GPUs
pip install -U deepspeed
In order to speed up the training, we preprocessed the videos, extracted video frames and corresponding Dwpose in advance, and packaged them with pickle package. You need to manage the training data as follows:
data/example_dataset/
βββ TikTok
βββ 00001_mp4
βββ dw_pose_with_foot_wo_face.pkl # packaged Dwpose
βββ frame_data.pkl # packaged frames
We encourage adding large amounts of data to finetune models to get better results. The experimental results show that about 1000 training videos can finetune a good human image animation model. Please refer to prepare_training_data.py file for more details about packaged Dwpose/frames.
For convenience, we do not pre-process VAE features, but put VAE pre-processing and DiT model training in a training script, and also facilitate data augmentation to improve performance. You can also choose to extract VAE features first and then conduct subsequent DiT model training.
LoRA training (One A100 GPU):
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python examples/unianimate_wan/train_unianimate_wan.py \
--task train \
--train_architecture lora \
--lora_rank 64 --lora_alpha 64 \
--dataset_path data/example_dataset \
--output_path ./models_out_one_GPU \
--dit_path "./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00001-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00002-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00003-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00004-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00005-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00006-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00007-of-00007.safetensors" \
--max_epochs 10 --learning_rate 1e-4 \
--accumulate_grad_batches 1 \
--use_gradient_checkpointing --image_encoder_path "./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/models_clip_open-clip-xlm-roberta-large-vit-huge-14.pth" --use_gradient_checkpointing_offload
LoRA training (Multi-GPUs, based on Deepseed):
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1,2,3" python examples/unianimate_wan/train_unianimate_wan.py \
--task train --train_architecture lora \
--lora_rank 128 --lora_alpha 128 \
--dataset_path data/example_dataset \
--output_path ./models_out --dit_path "./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00001-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00002-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00003-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00004-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00005-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00006-of-00007.safetensors,./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00007-of-00007.safetensors" \
--max_epochs 10 --learning_rate 1e-4 \
--accumulate_grad_batches 1 \
--use_gradient_checkpointing \
--image_encoder_path "./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/models_clip_open-clip-xlm-roberta-large-vit-huge-14.pth" \
--use_gradient_checkpointing_offload \
--training_strategy "deepspeed_stage_2"
You can also finetune our trained model by set --pretrained_lora_path="./checkpoints/UniAnimate-Wan2.1-14B-Lora-12000.ckpt".
Test the LoRA finetuned model trained on one GPU:
import torch
from diffsynth import ModelManager, WanVideoPipeline, save_video, VideoData, WanUniAnimateVideoPipeline
# Load models
model_manager = ModelManager(device="cpu")
model_manager.load_models(
["./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/models_clip_open-clip-xlm-roberta-large-vit-huge-14.pth"],
torch_dtype=torch.float32, # Image Encoder is loaded with float32
)
model_manager.load_models(
[
[
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00001-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00002-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00003-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00004-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00005-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00006-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00007-of-00007.safetensors",
],
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/models_t5_umt5-xxl-enc-bf16.pth",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/Wan2.1_VAE.pth",
],
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
model_manager.load_lora_v2("models/lightning_logs/version_1/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt", lora_alpha=1.0)
...
...
Test the LoRA finetuned model trained on multi-GPUs based on Deepspeed, first you need python zero_to_fp32.py . output_dir/ --safe_serialization to change the .pt files to .safetensors files. Note that zero_to_fp32.py is an automatically generated file that can be found in the checkpoint folder after training with DeepSpeed on ββMulti-GPUs. And then run:
import torch
from diffsynth import ModelManager, WanVideoPipeline, save_video, VideoData, WanUniAnimateVideoPipeline
# Load models
model_manager = ModelManager(device="cpu")
model_manager.load_models(
["./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/models_clip_open-clip-xlm-roberta-large-vit-huge-14.pth"],
torch_dtype=torch.float32, # Image Encoder is loaded with float32
)
model_manager.load_models(
[
[
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00001-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00002-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00003-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00004-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00005-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00006-of-00007.safetensors",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/diffusion_pytorch_model-00007-of-00007.safetensors",
],
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/models_t5_umt5-xxl-enc-bf16.pth",
"./Wan2.1-I2V-14B-720P/Wan2.1_VAE.pth",
],
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
model_manager.load_lora_v2([
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00001-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00002-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00003-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00004-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00005-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00006-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00007-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00008-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00009-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00010-of-00011.safetensors",
"./models/lightning_logs/version_0/checkpoints/epoch=0-step=500.ckpt/output_dir/model-00011-of-00011.safetensors",
], lora_alpha=1.0)
...
...
If you find this codebase useful for your research, please cite the following paper:
@article{wang2025unianimate,
title={UniAnimate: Taming Unified Video Diffusion Models for Consistent Human Image Animation},
author={Wang, Xiang and Zhang, Shiwei and Gao, Changxin and Wang, Jiayu and Zhou, Xiaoqiang and Zhang, Yingya and Yan, Luxin and Sang, Nong},
journal={Science China Information Sciences},
year={2025}
}
This project is intended for academic research, and we explicitly disclaim any responsibility for user-generated content. Users are solely liable for their actions while using the generative model. The project contributors have no legal affiliation with, nor accountability for, usersβ behaviors. It is imperative to use the generative model responsibly, adhering to both ethical and legal standards.
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