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The Dancing problem requires a swarm of $n$ autonomous mobile robots to form a sequence of patterns, aka perform a choreography. Existing work has proven that some crucial restrictions on choreographies and initial configurations (e.g., on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Caterina Feletti , Paola Flocchini , Debasish Pattanayak , Giuseppe Prencipe , Nicola Santoro

Robotic motion generation methods using machine learning have been studied in recent years. Bilateral control-based imitation learning can imitate human motions using force information. By means of this method, variable speed motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuki Saigusa , Ayumu Sasagawa , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Recently, motion generation by machine learning has been actively researched to automate various tasks. Imitation learning is one such method that learns motions from data collected in advance. However, executing long-term tasks remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kazuki Hayashi , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Synthesising appropriate choreographies from music remains an open problem. We introduce MDLT, a novel approach that frames the choreography generation problem as a translation task. Our method leverages an existing data set to learn to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-18 André Correia , Luís A. Alexandre

Imitation learning stands at a crossroads: despite decades of progress, current imitation learning agents remain sophisticated memorisation machines, excelling at replay but failing when contexts shift or goals evolve. This paper argues…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nathan Gavenski , Felipe Meneguzzi , Odinaldo Rodrigues

To generate dance that temporally and aesthetically matches the music is a challenging problem, as the following factors need to be considered. First, the aesthetic styles and messages conveyed by the motion and music should be consistent.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Ho Yin Au , Jie Chen , Junkun Jiang , Yike Guo

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

Many application areas ranging from serious games for health to learning by demonstration in robotics, could benefit from large body movement datasets extracted from textual instructions accompanied by images. The interpretation of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Himangshu Sarma , Robert Porzel , Jan Smeddinck , Rainer Malaka

The advancement of generative AI has extended to the realm of Human Dance Generation, demonstrating superior generative capacities. However, current methods still exhibit deficiencies in achieving spatiotemporal consistency, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haipeng Fang , Zhihao Sun , Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Juan Cao , Sheng Tang

Motion generation, the task of synthesizing realistic motion sequences from various conditioning inputs, has become a central problem in computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics, with applications ranging from animation and virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Bruno Roy , Larasika Nadela , Noa Kaplan , Evan Atherton , Derek Cheung , Jacky Bibliowicz

Although existing 3D dance generation methods perform well in controlled scenarios, they often struggle to generalize in the wild. When conditioned on unseen music, existing methods often produce unstructured or physically implausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ronghui Li , Zhongyuan Hu , Li Siyao , Youliang Zhang , Haozhe Xie , Mingyuan Zhang , Jie Guo , Xiu Li , Ziwei Liu

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create dance choreography with intention is still at an early stage. Methods that conditionally generate dance sequences remain limited in their ability to follow choreographer-specific creative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Mathilde Papillon , Mariel Pettee , Nina Miolane

We introduce a method to synthesize animator guided human motion across 3D scenes. Given a set of sparse (3 or 4) joint locations (such as the location of a person's hand and two feet) and a seed motion sequence in a 3D scene, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Aymen Mir , Xavier Puig , Angjoo Kanazawa , Gerard Pons-Moll

Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the generation of videos from textual descriptions as well as the prediction of future sequences from input videos. Similarly, in human motion modeling, motions can be generated from text or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Masato Soga , Ryuki Takebayashi

Dance serves as a powerful medium for expressing human emotions, but the lifelike generation of dance is still a considerable challenge. Recently, diffusion models have showcased remarkable generative abilities across various domains. They…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Canyu Zhang , Youbao Tang , Ning Zhang , Ruei-Sung Lin , Mei Han , Jing Xiao , Song Wang

Synthesizing camera movements from music and dance is highly challenging due to the contradicting requirements and complexities of dance cinematography. Unlike human movements, which are always continuous, dance camera movements involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zixuan Wang , Jiayi Li , Xiaoyu Qin , Shikun Sun , Songtao Zhou , Jia Jia , Jiebo Luo

Our paper aims to generate diverse and realistic animal motion sequences from textual descriptions, without a large-scale animal text-motion dataset. While the task of text-driven human motion synthesis is already extensively studied and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhangsihao Yang , Mingyuan Zhou , Mengyi Shan , Bingbing Wen , Ziwei Xuan , Mitch Hill , Junjie Bai , Guo-Jun Qi , Yalin Wang

The estimation of 3D human body pose and shape from a single image has been extensively studied in recent years. However, the texture generation problem has not been fully discussed. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end learning strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Jian Wang , Yunshan Zhong , Yachun Li , Chi Zhang , Yichen Wei

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

When hearing music, it is natural for people to dance to its rhythm. Automatic dance generation, however, is a challenging task due to the physical constraints of human motion and rhythmic alignment with target music. Conventional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qiaosong Qi , Le Zhuo , Aixi Zhang , Yue Liao , Fei Fang , Si Liu , Shuicheng Yan