  In this paper, we propose a novel dual-branch Transformation-Synthesis
network (TS-Net), for video motion retargeting. Given one subject video and one
driving video, TS-Net can produce a new plausible video with the subject
appearance of the subject video and motion pattern of the driving video. TS-Net
consists of a warp-based transformation branch and a warp-free synthesis
branch. The novel design of dual branches combines the strengths of
deformation-grid-based transformation and warp-free generation for better
identity preservation and robustness to occlusion in the synthesized videos. A
mask-aware similarity module is further introduced to the transformation branch
to reduce computational overhead. Experimental results on face and dance
datasets show that TS-Net achieves better performance in video motion
retargeting than several state-of-the-art models as well as its single-branch
variants. Our code is available at https://github.com/nihaomiao/WACV23_TSNet.
