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This work studies the challenge of transfer animations between characters whose skeletal topologies differ substantially. While many techniques have advanced retargeting techniques in decades, transfer motions across diverse topologies…

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We present HIPNet, a neural implicit pose network trained on multiple subjects across many poses. HIPNet can disentangle subject-specific details from pose-specific details, effectively enabling us to retarget motion from one subject to…

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Retargeting human kinematic reference motion onto a robot's morphology remains a formidable challenge. Existing methods often produce physical inconsistencies, such as foot sliding, self-collisions, or dynamically infeasible motions, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 David Müller , Agon Serifi , Sammy Christen , Ruben Grandia , Espen Knoop , Moritz Bächer

This paper focuses on the challenging task of learning 3D object surface reconstructions from single RGB images. Existing methods achieve varying degrees of success by using different geometric representations. However, they all have their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Jiapeng Tang , Xiaoguang Han , Junyi Pan , Kui Jia , Xin Tong

In recent years, skeleton-based action recognition has become a popular 3D classification problem. State-of-the-art methods typically first represent each motion sequence as a high-dimensional trajectory on a Lie group with an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Zhiwu Huang , Chengde Wan , Thomas Probst , Luc Van Gool

The primary goal of skeletal motion prediction is to generate future motion by observing a sequence of 3D skeletons. A key challenge in motion prediction is the fact that a motion can often be performed in several different ways, with each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Junfeng Hu , Zhencheng Fan , Jun Liao , Li Liu

Automatic human action recognition is indispensable for almost artificial intelligent systems such as video surveillance, human-computer interfaces, video retrieval, etc. Despite a lot of progress, recognizing actions in an unknown video is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Huy-Hieu Pham , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Pablo Zegers , Sergio A. Velastin

Skeleton data carries valuable motion information and is widely explored in human action recognition. However, not only the motion information but also the interaction with the environment provides discriminative cues to recognize the…

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This work presents a motion retargeting approach for legged robots, aimed at transferring the dynamic and agile movements to robots from source motions. In particular, we guide the imitation learning procedures by transferring motions from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Taerim Yoon , Dongho Kang , Seungmin Kim , Jin Cheng , Minsung Ahn , Stelian Coros , Sungjoon Choi

Skeleton-based human action recognition has attracted a lot of research attention during the past few years. Recent works attempted to utilize recurrent neural networks to model the temporal dependencies between the 3D positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Jun Liu , Amir Shahroudy , Dong Xu , Alex C. Kot , Gang Wang

We present a data-driven framework for unsupervised human motion retargeting that animates a target subject with the motion of a source subject. Our method is correspondence-free, requiring neither spatial correspondences between the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Rim Rekik , Mathieu Marsot , Anne-Hélène Olivier , Jean-Sébastien Franco , Stefanie Wuhrer

Motion retargeting from a human demonstration to a robot is an effective way to reduce the professional requirements and workload of robot programming, but faces the challenges resulting from the differences between humans and robots.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Haodong Zhang , Weijie Li , Jiangpin Liu , Zexi Chen , Yuxiang Cui , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

3D Human Motion Indexing and Retrieval is an interesting problem due to the rise of several data-driven applications aimed at analyzing and/or re-utilizing 3D human skeletal data, such as data-driven animation, analysis of sports…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Neeraj Battan , Abbhinav Venkat , Avinash Sharma

Pooling is a crucial operation in computer vision, yet the unique structure of skeletons hinders the application of existing pooling strategies to skeleton graph modelling. In this paper, we propose an Improved Graph Pooling Network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Cong Wu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Josef Kittler

We present a simple yet effective method for skeleton-free motion retargeting. Previous methods transfer motion between high-resolution meshes, failing to preserve the inherent local-part motions in the mesh. Addressing this issue, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haoyu Wang , Shaoli Huang , Fang Zhao , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

Skeleton-based multi-entity action recognition is a challenging task aiming to identify interactive actions or group activities involving multiple diverse entities. Existing models for individuals often fall short in this task due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuhang Wen , Mengyuan Liu , Songtao Wu , Beichen Ding

Effectively measuring the similarity between two human motions is necessary for several computer vision tasks such as gait analysis, person identi- fication and action retrieval. Nevertheless, we believe that traditional approaches such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Huseyin Coskun , David Joseph Tan , Sailesh Conjeti , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

This study proposes an approach to human-to-humanoid teleoperation using GAN-based online motion retargeting, which obviates the need for the construction of pairwise datasets to identify the relationship between the human and the humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Satoshi Yagi , Mitsunori Tada , Eiji Uchibe , Suguru Kanoga , Takamitsu Matsubara , Jun Morimoto

Human character animation is often critical in entertainment content production, including video games, virtual reality or fiction films. To this end, deep neural networks drive most recent advances through deep learning and deep…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 L. Mourot , L. Hoyet , F. Le Clerc , François Schnitzler , Pierre Hellier

The animation community has spent significant effort trying to ease rigging procedures. This is necessitated because the increasing availability of 3D data makes manual rigging infeasible. However, object animations involve understanding…

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