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We present DanceAnyWay, a generative learning method to synthesize beat-guided dances of 3D human characters synchronized with music. Our method learns to disentangle the dance movements at the beat frames from the dance movements at all…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Aneesh Bhattacharya , Manas Paranjape , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera

Music-driven 3D dance generation has attracted increasing attention in recent years, with promising applications in choreography, virtual reality, and creative content creation. Previous research has generated promising realistic dance…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kaixing Yang , Xulong Tang , Ziqiao Peng , Yuxuan Hu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu

With the rise of online dance-video platforms and rapid advances in AI-generated content (AIGC), music-driven dance generation has emerged as a compelling research direction. Despite substantial progress in related domains such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kaixing Yang , Jiashu Zhu , Xulong Tang , Ziqiao Peng , Xiangyue Zhang , Puwei Wang , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Text-driven controllable dance generation remains under-explored, primarily due to the severe scarcity of high-quality datasets and the inherent difficulty of articulating complex choreographies. Characterizing dance is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hang Yuan , Xiaolin Hu , Yan Wan , Menglin Gao , Wenzhe Yu , Cong Huang , Fei Xu , Qing Li , Christina Dan Wang , Zhou Yu , Kai Chen

Idle animations are essential for virtual characters, as they convey realistic behaviour during inactive states. While automatic animation generation has been widely studied, limited attention has been given to idle motion due to the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Eneko Atxa Landa , Igor Rodriguez , Elena Lazkano , Taras Kucherenko

With the ongoing pandemic, virtual concerts and live events using digitized performances of musicians are getting traction on massive multiplayer online worlds. However, well choreographed dance movements are extremely complex to animate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jiaman Li , Yihang Yin , Hang Chu , Yi Zhou , Tingwu Wang , Sanja Fidler , Hao Li

In this paper, we introduce Motion-X++, a large-scale multimodal 3D expressive whole-body human motion dataset. Existing motion datasets predominantly capture body-only poses, lacking facial expressions, hand gestures, and fine-grained pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yuhong Zhang , Jing Lin , Ailing Zeng , Guanlin Wu , Shunlin Lu , Yurong Fu , Yuanhao Cai , Ruimao Zhang , Haoqian Wang , Lei Zhang

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

Humans perform a variety of interactive motions, among which duet dance is one of the most challenging interactions. However, in terms of human motion generative models, existing works are still unable to generate high-quality interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ronghui Li , Youliang Zhang , Yachao Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Mingyang Su , Jie Guo , Ziwei Liu , Yebin Liu , Xiu Li

This paper presents an Exploratory 3D Dance generation framework, E3D2, designed to address the exploration capability deficiency in existing music-conditioned 3D dance generation models. Current models often generate monotonous and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zilin Wang , Haolin Zhuang , Lu Li , Yinmin Zhang , Junjie Zhong , Jun Chen , Yu Yang , Boshi Tang , Zhiyong Wu

Well-coordinated, music-aligned holistic dance enhances emotional expressiveness and audience engagement. However, generating such dances remains challenging due to the scarcity of holistic 3D dance datasets, the difficulty of achieving…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xiaojie Li , Ronghui Li , Shukai Fang , Shuzhao Xie , Xiaoyang Guo , Jiaqing Zhou , Junkun Peng , Zhi Wang

Recent pose-to-video models can translate 2D pose sequences into photorealistic, identity-preserving dance videos, so the key challenge is to generate temporally coherent, rhythm-aligned 2D poses from music, especially under complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yan Zhang , Han Zou , Lincong Feng , Cong Xie , Ruiqi Yu , Zhenpeng Zhan

Generative models for audio-conditioned dance motion synthesis map music features to dance movements. Models are trained to associate motion patterns to audio patterns, usually without an explicit knowledge of the human body. This approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Davide Moltisanti , Jinyi Wu , Bo Dai , Chen Change Loy

Generating dance from music is crucial for advancing automated choreography. Current methods typically produce skeleton keypoint sequences instead of dance videos and lack the capability to make specific individuals dance, which reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xuanchen Wang , Heng Wang , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai

Music-to-dance generation aims to synthesize human dance motion conditioned on musical input. Despite recent progress, significant challenges remain due to the semantic gap between music and dance motion, as music offers only abstract cues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qing Wang , Xiaohang Yang , Yilan Dong , Naveen Raj Govindaraj , Gregory Slabaugh , Shanxin Yuan

Our team of dance artists, physicists, and machine learning researchers has collectively developed several original, configurable machine-learning tools to generate novel sequences of choreography as well as tunable variations on input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Mariel Pettee , Chase Shimmin , Douglas Duhaime , Ilya Vidrin

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by significant challenges in social interaction and comprehending communication signals. Recently, therapeutic interventions for ASD have increasingly utilized Deep learning powered-computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Pavan Uttej Ravva , Behdokht Kiafar , Pinar Kullu , Jicheng Li , Anjana Bhat , Roghayeh Leila Barmaki

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

Generating coherent and diverse human dances from music signals has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While existing methods support direct dance synthesis, they fail to recognize that enabling users to edit dance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hengyuan Zhang , Zhe Li , Xingqun Qi , Mengze Li , Muyi Sun , Man Zhang , Sirui Han

In music-driven dance motion generation, most existing methods use hand-crafted features and neglect that music foundation models have profoundly impacted cross-modal content generation. To bridge this gap, we propose a diffusion-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xinran Liu , Zhenhua Feng , Diptesh Kanojia , Wenwu Wang