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Understanding and predicting motion is a fundamental component of visual intelligence. Although modern video models exhibit strong comprehension of scene dynamics, exploring multiple possible futures through full video synthesis remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nick Stracke , Kolja Bauer , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind , Björn Ommer

How to learn discriminative video representation from unlabeled videos is challenging but crucial for video analysis. The latest attempts seek to learn a representation model by predicting the appearance contents in the masked regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Liangwei Chen , Changhao Li , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Attribute manipulation deals with the problem of changing individual attributes of a data point or a time series, while leaving all other aspects unaffected. This work focuses on the domain of human motion, more precisely karate movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anthony Richardson , Felix Putze

Text-motion retrieval aims to learn a semantically aligned latent space between natural language descriptions and 3D human motion skeleton sequences, enabling bidirectional search across the two modalities. Most existing methods use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yao Zhang , Zhuchenyang Liu , Yanlan He , Thomas Ploetz , Yu Xiao

State-of-the-art text-to-motion generation models rely on the kinematic-aware, local-relative motion representation popularized by HumanML3D, which encodes motion relative to the pelvis and to the previous frame with built-in redundancy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zichong Meng , Zeyu Han , Xiaogang Peng , Yiming Xie , Huaizu Jiang

A representation technique that allows encoding music in a way that contains musical meaning would improve the results of any model trained for computer music tasks like generation of melodies and harmonies of better quality. The field of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Sebastian Garcia-Valencia

Movements of molecular motors on cytoskeletal filaments are described by directed walks on a line. Detachment from this line is allowed to occur with a small probability. Motion in the surrounding fluid is described by symmetric random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Stefan Klumpp , Reinhard Lipowsky

We introduce motions as real six-dimensional vectors. A motion means a rotation and a translation. We define a motion operator which maps unit dual quaternions to motions, and a UDQ operator which maps motions to unit dual quaternions. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Liqun Qi

This paper shows that motion vectors representing the true motion of an object in a scene can be exploited to improve the encoding process of computer generated video sequences. Therefore, a set of sequences is presented for which the true…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Christian Herglotz , David Müller , Andreas Weinlich , Frank Bauer , Michael Ortner , Marc Stamminger , André Kaup

A motion-based control interface promises flexible robot operations in dangerous environments by combining user intuitions with the robot's motor capabilities. However, designing a motion interface for non-humanoid robots, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Sunwoo Kim , Maks Sorokin , Jehee Lee , Sehoon Ha

Predicting diverse object motions from a single static image remains challenging, as current video generation models often entangle object movement with camera motion and other scene changes. While recent methods can predict specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Karran Pandey , Matheus Gadelha , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Karan Singh , Niloy J. Mitra , Paul Guerrero

Recent advances in interactive technologies have highlighted the prominence of audio signals for semantic encoding. This paper explores a new task, where audio signals are used as conditioning inputs to generate motions that align with the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zi-An Wang , Shihao Zou , Shiyao Yu , Mingyuan Zhang , Chao Dong

Human-like motion generation for robots often draws inspiration from biomechanical studies, which often categorize complex human motions into hierarchical taxonomies. While these taxonomies provide rich structural information about how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Luis Augenstein , Noémie Jaquier , Tamim Asfour , Leonel Rozo

Exploiting interaction with the environment is a promising and powerful way to enhance stability of humanoid robots and robustness while executing locomotion and manipulation tasks. Recently some works have started to show advances in this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-23 Júlia Borràs , Tamim Asfour

Human motion generation involves creating natural sequences of human body poses, widely used in gaming, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction. It aims to produce lifelike virtual characters with realistic movements, enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiayi Zhao , Dongdong Weng , Qiuxin Du , Zeyu Tian

This paper formulates a generalized classification algorithm with an application to classifying (or `decoding') neural activity in the brain. Medical doctors and researchers have long been interested in how brain activity correlates to body…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Cary Humber , Kazufumi Ito , Chad Bouton

We demonstrate the classification of common motions of held objects using the harmonic micro-Doppler signatures scattered from harmonic radio-frequency tags. Harmonic tags capture incident signals and retransmit at harmonic frequencies,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Cory Hilton , Steve Bush , Faiz Sherman , Matt Barker , Aditya Deshpande , Steve Willeke , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Though the advancement of pre-trained large language models unfolds, the exploration of building a unified model for language and other multi-modal data, such as motion, remains challenging and untouched so far. Fortunately, human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Biao Jiang , Xin Chen , Wen Liu , Jingyi Yu , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

We address the problem of action detection in videos. Driven by the latest progress in object detection from 2D images, we build action models using rich feature hierarchies derived from shape and kinematic cues. We incorporate appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Georgia Gkioxari , Jitendra Malik

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