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Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

Computer vision has advanced significantly that many discriminative approaches such as object recognition are now widely used in real applications. We present another exciting development that utilizes generative models for the mass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Jyh-Jing Hwang , Sergei Azernikov , Alexei A. Efros , Stella X. Yu

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

Myocardial motion and deformation are rich descriptors that characterize cardiac function. Image registration, as the most commonly used technique for myocardial motion tracking, is an ill-posed inverse problem which often requires prior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Chen Qin , Shuo Wang , Chen Chen , Wenjia Bai , Daniel Rueckert

Generating diverse and natural human motion is one of the long-standing goals for creating intelligent characters in the animated world. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised method for generating long-range, diverse and plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jingwei Xu , Huazhe Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Many existing imitation learning datasets are collected from multiple demonstrators, each with different expertise at different parts of the environment. Yet, standard imitation learning algorithms typically treat all demonstrators as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mark Beliaev , Andy Shih , Stefano Ermon , Dorsa Sadigh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Motion generation is a cornerstone of computer graphics, animation, gaming, and robotics, enabling the creation of realistic and varied character movements. A significant limitation of existing methods is their reliance on specific skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Evan Atherton , Bruno Roy

We present an imitation learning framework that extracts distinctive legged locomotion behaviors and transitions between them from unlabeled real-world motion data. By automatically discovering behavioral modes and mapping user steering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Dongho Kang , Jin Cheng , Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Taerim Yoon , Sungjoon Choi , Stelian Coros

Imitation from observation is a computational technique that teaches an agent on how to mimic the behavior of an expert by observing only the sequence of states from the expert demonstrations. Recent approaches learn the inverse dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Juarez Monteiro , Nathan Gavenski , Roger Granada , Felipe Meneguzzi , Rodrigo Barros

There is a recent surge in interest for imitation learning, with large human video-game and robotic manipulation datasets being used to train agents on very complex tasks. While deep neuroevolution has recently been shown to match the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Maximilien Le Clei , Pierre Bellec

This paper introduces the concept of choreography with respect to inter-organizational innovation networks, as they constitute an attractive environment to create innovation in different sectors. We argue that choreography governs…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Giovanna Ferraro , Antonio Iovanella

We consider the problem of synthesizing multi-action human motion sequences of arbitrary lengths. Existing approaches have mastered motion sequence generation in single action scenarios, but fail to generalize to multi-action and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Rania Briq , Chuhang Zou , Leonid Pishchulin , Chris Broaddus , Juergen Gall

Video sequences contain rich dynamic patterns, such as dynamic texture patterns that exhibit stationarity in the temporal domain, and action patterns that are non-stationary in either spatial or temporal domain. We show that an energy-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Jianwen Xie , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Human-motion generation is a long-standing challenging task due to the requirement of accurately modeling complex and diverse dynamic patterns. Most existing methods adopt sequence models such as RNN to directly model transitions in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Zhenyi Wang , Ping Yu , Yang Zhao , Ruiyi Zhang , Yufan Zhou , Junsong Yuan , Changyou Chen

Styled motion in-betweening is crucial for computer animation and gaming. However, existing methods typically encode motion styles by modeling whole-body motions, often overlooking the representation of individual body parts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Minyue Dai , Ke Fan , Bin Ji , Haoran Xu , Haoyu Zhao , Junting Dong , Jingbo Wang , Bo Dai

Video sequences contain rich dynamic patterns, such as dynamic texture patterns that exhibit stationarity in the temporal domain, and action patterns that are non-stationary in either spatial or temporal domain. We show that a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-31 Jianwen Xie , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

We propose an attention-based networks for transferring motions between arbitrary objects. Given a source image(s) and a driving video, our networks animate the subject in the source images according to the motion in the driving video. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Subin Jeon , Seonghyeon Nam , Seoung Wug Oh , Seon Joo Kim

Dance improvisation is an active research topic in the arts. Motion analysis of improvised dance can be challenging due to its unique dynamics. Data-driven dance motion analysis, including recognition and generation, is often limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jia Fu , Jiarui Tan , Wenjie Yin , Sepideh Pashami , Mårten Björkman

Synthesizing human's movements such as dancing is a flourishing research field which has several applications in computer graphics. Recent studies have demonstrated the advantages of deep neural networks (DNNs) for achieving remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Nelson Yalta , Shinji Watanabe , Kazuhiro Nakadai , Tetsuya Ogata

Dynamic objects in our physical 4D (3D + time) world are constantly evolving, deforming, and interacting with other objects, leading to diverse 4D scene dynamics. In this paper, we present a universal generative pipeline, CHORD, for…

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