  We propose an approach to generate images of people given a desired
appearance and pose. Disentangled representations of pose and appearance are
necessary to handle the compound variability in the resulting generated images.
Hence, we develop an approach based on intermediate representations of poses
and appearance: our pose-guided appearance rendering network firstly encodes
the targets' poses using an encoder-decoder neural network. Then the targets'
appearances are encoded by learning adaptive appearance filters using a fully
convolutional network. Finally, these filters are placed in the encoder-decoder
neural networks to complete the rendering. We demonstrate that our model can
generate images and videos that are superior to state-of-the-art methods, and
can handle pose guided appearance rendering in both image and video generation.
