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We present a method for synthesizing naturally looking images of multiple people interacting in a specific scenario. These images benefit from the advantages of synthetic data: being fully controllable and fully annotated with any type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Igor Kviatkovsky , Nadav Bhonker , Gerard Medioni

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

3D Human motion generation is pivotal across film, animation, gaming, and embodied intelligence. Traditional 3D motion synthesis relies on costly motion capture, while recent work shows that 2D videos provide rich, temporally coherent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yi-Yang Zhang , Tengjiao Sun , Pengcheng Fang , Deng-Bao Wang , Xiaohao Cai , Min-Ling Zhang , Hansung Kim

Large-scale pre-trained video diffusion models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in diverse video generation. However, existing solutions face several challenges in generating long videos with rich human-scene interactions (HSI),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zekun Li , Rui Zhou , Rahul Sajnani , Xiaoyan Cong , Daniel Ritchie , Srinath Sridhar

In this paper, we present a method for real-time multi-person human pose estimation from video by utilizing convolutional neural networks. Our method is aimed for use case specific applications, where good accuracy is essential and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Marko Linna , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

Generating high-quality and diverse human images is an important yet challenging task in vision and graphics. However, existing generative models often fall short under the high diversity of clothing shapes and textures. Furthermore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yuming Jiang , Shuai Yang , Haonan Qiu , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

"How can we animate 3D-characters from a movie script or move robots by simply telling them what we would like them to do?" "How unstructured and complex can we make a sentence and still generate plausible movements from it?" These are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Anindita Ghosh , Noshaba Cheema , Cennet Oguz , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Generating sequences of human-like motions for humanoid robots presents challenges in collecting and analyzing reference human motions, synthesizing new motions based on these reference motions, and mapping the generated motion onto…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Rhea Malhotra , William Chong , Catie Cuan , Oussama Khatib

Learning a good 3D human pose representation is important for human pose related tasks, e.g. human 3D pose estimation and action recognition. Within all these problems, preserving the intrinsic pose information and adapting to view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Qiang Nie , Ziwei Liu , Yunhui Liu

Predicting future human behavior from an input human video is a useful task for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. While most previous works predict a single future, multiple futures with different behavior can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Naoya Fushishita , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Text-driven content creation has evolved to be a transformative technique that revolutionizes creativity. Here we study the task of text-driven human video generation, where a video sequence is synthesized from texts describing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yuming Jiang , Shuai Yang , Tong Liang Koh , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Creating believable motions for various characters has long been a goal in computer graphics. Current learning-based motion synthesis methods depend on extensive motion datasets, which are often challenging, if not impossible, to obtain. On…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Qingqing Zhao , Peizhuo Li , Wang Yifan , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Gordon Wetzstein

We present a physics-based character control framework for synthesizing human-scene interactions. Recent advances adopt physics simulation to mitigate artifacts produced by data-driven kinematic approaches. However, existing physics-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liang Pan , Jingbo Wang , Buzhen Huang , Junyu Zhang , Haofan Wang , Xu Tang , Yangang Wang

Estimating human pose, shape, and motion from images and videos are fundamental challenges with many applications. Recent advances in 2D human pose estimation use large amounts of manually-labeled training data for learning convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Gül Varol , Javier Romero , Xavier Martin , Naureen Mahmood , Michael J. Black , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

3D human dance motion is a cooperative and elegant social movement. Unlike regular simple locomotion, it is challenging to synthesize artistic dance motions due to the irregularity, kinematic complexity and diversity. It requires the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Wenlin Zhuang , Yangang Wang , Joseph Robinson , Congyi Wang , Ming Shao , Yun Fu , Siyu Xia

Pedestrian motion, due to its causal nature, is strongly influenced by domain gaps arising from discrepancies between training and testing data distributions. Focusing on 3D human pose estimation, this work presents a controllable human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xinhao Hu , Yiyi Zhang , Liqing Zhang , Jianfu Zhang

Advances in markerless pose estimation have made it possible to capture detailed human movement in naturalistic settings using standard video, enabling new forms of behavioral analysis at scale. However, the high dimensionality, noise, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Carter Sale , Margaret C. Macpherson , Gaurav Patil , Kelly Miles , Rachel W. Kallen , Sebastian Wallot , Michael J. Richardson

Text-driven human motion synthesis has showcased its potential for revolutionizing motion design in the movie and game industry. Existing methods often rely on 3D motion capture data, which requires special setups, resulting in high costs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ruoxi Guo , Huaijin Pi , Zehong Shen , Qing Shuai , Zechen Hu , Zhumei Wang , Yajiao Dong , Ruizhen Hu , Taku Komura , Sida Peng , Xiaowei Zhou

Pose Guided Human Image Synthesis (PGHIS) is a challenging task of transforming a human image from the reference pose to a target pose while preserving its style. Most existing methods encode the texture of the whole reference human image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Jianhan Wu , Jianzong Wang , Shijing Si , Xiaoyang Qu , Jing Xiao