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Data-driven modelling and synthesis of motion is an active research area with applications that include animation, games, and social robotics. This paper introduces a new class of probabilistic, generative, and controllable motion-data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Gustav Eje Henter , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow

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

Creating expressive character animations is labor-intensive, requiring intricate manual adjustment of animators across space and time. Previous works on controllable motion generation often rely on a predefined set of dense spatio-temporal…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Inwoo Hwang , Jinseok Bae , Donggeun Lim , Young Min Kim

Recently, digital humans for interpersonal interaction in virtual environments have gained significant attention. In this paper, we introduce a novel multi-dancer synthesis task called partner dancer generation, which involves synthesizing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siyue Yao , Mingjie Sun , Bingliang Li , Fengyu Yang , Junle Wang , Ruimao Zhang

We present a novel method for populating 3D indoor scenes with virtual humans that can navigate in the environment and interact with objects in a realistic manner. Existing approaches rely on training sequences that contain captured human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Kaifeng Zhao , Yan Zhang , Shaofei Wang , Thabo Beeler , Siyu Tang

Generating realistic motions for digital humans is time-consuming for many graphics applications. Data-driven motion synthesis approaches have seen solid progress in recent years through deep generative models. These results offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Edmund J. C. Findlay , Haozheng Zhang , Ziyi Chang , Hubert P. H. Shum

We propose a novel task for generating 3D dance movements that simultaneously incorporate both text and music modalities. Unlike existing works that generate dance movements using a single modality such as music, our goal is to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Kehong Gong , Dongze Lian , Heng Chang , Chuan Guo , Zihang Jiang , Xinxin Zuo , Michael Bi Mi , Xinchao Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for music-driven dance motion synthesis with controllable key pose constraint. In contrast to methods that generate dance motion sequences only based on music without any other controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Junfu Pu , Ying Shan

The motion of picking up and placing an object in 3D space is full of subtle detail. Typically these motions are formed from the same constraints, optimizing for swiftness, energy efficiency, as well as physiological limits. Yet, even for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Connor Daly , Yuzuko Nakamura , Tobias Ritschel

Generating human videos with realistic and controllable motions is a challenging task. While existing methods can generate visually compelling videos, they lack separate control over four key video elements: foreground subject, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jingyun Liang , Jingkai Zhou , Shikai Li , Chenjie Cao , Lei Sun , Yichen Qian , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Music-driven 3D dance generation offers significant creative potential, yet practical applications demand versatile and multimodal control. As the highly dynamic and complex human motion covering various styles and genres, dance generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jinlu Zhang , Zixi Kang , Libin Liu , Jianlong Chang , Qi Tian , Feng Gao , Yizhou Wang

Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

In this paper, we present a diffusion model-based framework for animating people from a single image for a given target 3D motion sequence. Our approach has two core components: a) learning priors about invisible parts of the human body and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Boyi Li , Junming Chen , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Yossi Gandelsman , Alexei A. Efros , Jitendra Malik

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

With the recent success of deep learning algorithms, many researchers have focused on generative models for human motion animation. However, the research community lacks a platform for training and benchmarking various algorithms, and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yizhou Zhao , Wensi Ai , Liang Qiu , Pan Lu , Feng Shi , Tian Han , Song-Chun Zhu

Music-driven dance generation is a challenging task as it requires strict adherence to genre-specific choreography while ensuring physically realistic and precisely synchronized dance sequences with the music's beats and rhythm. Although…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xinran Liu , Xu Dong , Shenbin Qian , Diptesh Kanojia , Wenwu Wang , Zhenhua Feng

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

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

Text-to-motion generation has gained increasing attention, but most existing methods are limited to generating short-term motions that correspond to a single sentence describing a single action. However, when a text stream describes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhao Yang , Bing Su , Ji-Rong Wen

The target duration of a synthesized human motion is a critical attribute that requires modeling control over the motion dynamics and style. Speeding up an action performance is not merely fast-forwarding it. However, state-of-the-art…

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