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Our team of dance artists, physicists, and machine learning researchers has collectively developed several original, configurable machine-learning tools to generate novel sequences of choreography as well as tunable variations on input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Mariel Pettee , Chase Shimmin , Douglas Duhaime , Ilya Vidrin

Recent advances in deep learning have expanded possibilities to generate music, but generating a customizable full piece of music with consistent long-term structure remains a challenge. This paper introduces MusicFrameworks, a hierarchical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shuqi Dai , Zeyu Jin , Celso Gomes , Roger B. Dannenberg

This work presents computational methods for transferring body movements from one person to another with videos collected in the wild. Specifically, we train a personalized model on a single video from the Internet which can generate videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yipin Zhou , Zhaowen Wang , Chen Fang , Trung Bui , Tamara L. Berg

Synthesizing human motion with a global structure, such as a choreography, is a challenging task. Existing methods tend to concentrate on local smooth pose transitions and neglect the global context or the theme of the motion. In this work,…

Choreography creation is a multimodal endeavor, demanding cognitive abilities to develop creative ideas and technical expertise to convert choreographic ideas into physical dance movements. Previous endeavors have sought to reduce the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yimeng Liu , Misha Sra

We introduce MusicInfuser, an approach that aligns pre-trained text-to-video diffusion models to generate high-quality dance videos synchronized with specified music tracks. Rather than training a multimodal audio-video or audio-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Susung Hong , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman , Brian Curless , Steven M. Seitz

This paper is a survey and an analysis of different ways of using deep learning (deep artificial neural networks) to generate musical content. We propose a methodology based on five dimensions for our analysis: Objective - What musical…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Jean-Pierre Briot , Gaëtan Hadjeres , François-David Pachet

Neural networks and deep learning are often deployed for the sake of the most comprehensive music generation with as little involvement as possible from the human musician. Implementations in aid of, or being a tool for, music practitioners…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alex Wastnidge

Group dance generation from music has broad applications in film, gaming, and animation production. However, it requires synchronizing multiple dancers while maintaining spatial coordination. As the number of dancers and sequence length…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jing Xu , Weiqiang Wang , Cunjian Chen , Jun Liu , Qiuhong Ke

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

Existing AI-generated dance methods primarily train on motion capture data from solo dance performances, but a critical feature of dance in nearly any genre is the interaction of two or more bodies in space. Moreover, many works at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zixuan Wang , Luis Zerkowski , Ilya Vidrin , Mariel Pettee

We present a model for capturing musical features and creating novel sequences of music, called the Convolutional Variational Recurrent Neural Network. To generate sequential data, the model uses an encoder-decoder architecture with latent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Eunjeong Stella Koh , Shlomo Dubnov , Dustin Wright

We present DuetGen, a novel framework for generating interactive two-person dances from music. The key challenge of this task lies in the inherent complexities of two-person dance interactions, where the partners need to synchronize both…

Close your eyes and listen to music, one can easily imagine an actor dancing rhythmically along with the music. These dance movements are usually made up of dance movements you have seen before. In this paper, we propose to reproduce such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xin Guo , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li

In music-driven dance motion generation, most existing methods use hand-crafted features and neglect that music foundation models have profoundly impacted cross-modal content generation. To bridge this gap, we propose a diffusion-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xinran Liu , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Wenwu Wang

Choreographies are formal descriptions of distributed systems, which focus on the way in which participants communicate. While they are useful for analysing protocols, in practice systems are written directly by specifying each…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Bjørn Angel Kjær , Luís Cruz-Filipe , Fabrizio Montesi

Human dance generation (HDG) aims to synthesize realistic videos from images and sequences of driving poses. Despite great success, existing methods are limited to generating videos of a single person with specific backgrounds, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhe Xu , Kun Wei , Xu Yang , Cheng Deng

A new architecture of an artificial neural network that helps to generate longer melodic patterns is introduced alongside with methods for post-generation filtering. The proposed approach called variational autoencoder supported by history…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ivan P. Yamshchikov , Alexey Tikhonov

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

How to automatically synthesize natural-looking dance movements based on a piece of music is an incrementally popular yet challenging task. Most existing data-driven approaches require hard-to-get paired training data and fail to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Bin Feng , Tenglong Ao , Zequn Liu , Wei Ju , Libin Liu , Ming Zhang