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Automatically generating natural, diverse and rhythmic human dance movements driven by music is vital for virtual reality and film industries. However, generating dance that naturally follows music remains a challenge, as existing methods…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Congyi Fan , Jian Guan , Xuanjia Zhao , Dongli Xu , Youtian Lin , Tong Ye , Pengming Feng , Haiwei Pan

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

Generating long-term, coherent, and realistic music-conditioned dance sequences remains a challenging task in human motion synthesis. Existing approaches exhibit critical limitations: motion graph methods rely on fixed template libraries,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mingyang Huang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

Automatic choreography generation is a challenging task because it often requires an understanding of two abstract concepts - music and dance - which are realized in the two different modalities, namely audio and video, respectively. In…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Juheon Lee , Seohyun Kim , Kyogu Lee

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

Synthesis of long-term human motion skeleton sequences is essential to aid human-centric video generation with potential applications in Augmented Reality, 3D character animations, pedestrian trajectory prediction, etc. Long-term human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Neeraj Battan , Yudhik Agrawal , Veeravalli Saisooryarao , Aman Goel , Avinash Sharma

Music and dance have always co-existed as pillars of human activities, contributing immensely to the cultural, social, and entertainment functions in virtually all societies. Notwithstanding the gradual systematization of music and dance…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shuang Wu , Zhenguang Li , Shijian Lu , Li Cheng

In the realm of 3D digital human applications, music-to-dance presents a challenging task. Given the one-to-many relationship between music and dance, previous methods have been limited in their approach, relying solely on matching and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Xin Gao , Li Hu , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Liefeng Bo

Synthesizing 3D human motion plays an important role in many graphics applications as well as understanding human activity. While many efforts have been made on generating realistic and natural human motion, most approaches neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jiashun Wang , Huazhe Xu , Jingwei Xu , Sifei Liu , Xiaolong Wang

This paper tackles the problem of physics-aware human motion synthesis in a dynamic scene. Unlike existing works which mainly tend to generate physically unrealistic motions due to limited contact modeling, typically restricted to hands, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chaoyue Xing , Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu

Synthesizing camera movements from music and dance is highly challenging due to the contradicting requirements and complexities of dance cinematography. Unlike human movements, which are always continuous, dance camera movements involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zixuan Wang , Jiayi Li , Xiaoyu Qin , Shikun Sun , Songtao Zhou , Jia Jia , Jiebo Luo

Recent advances in deep learning have expanded possibilities to generate music, but generating a customizable full piece of music with consistent long-term structure remains a challenge. This paper introduces MusicFrameworks, a hierarchical…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shuqi Dai , Zeyu Jin , Celso Gomes , Roger B. Dannenberg

Existing music-driven 3D dance generation methods mainly concentrate on high-quality dance generation, but lack sufficient control during the generation process. To address these issues, we propose a unified framework capable of generating…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Ronghui Li , Yuqin Dai , Yachao Zhang , Jun Li , Jian Yang , Jie Guo , Xiu Li

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

The objective of the multi-condition human motion synthesis task is to incorporate diverse conditional inputs, encompassing various forms like text, music, speech, and more. This endows the task with the capability to adapt across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zeyu Ling , Bo Han , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kangkanhalli , Weidong Geng

There has been an everlasting discussion around the concept of form in music. This work is motivated by such debate by using a complex systems framework in which we study the form as an emergent property of rhythm. Such a framework…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-11 Blas Kolic , Mateo Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Cervantes , Pablo Padilla-Longoria , Francis Knights

"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

We address the computational problem of novel human pose synthesis. Given an image of a person and a desired pose, we produce a depiction of that person in that pose, retaining the appearance of both the person and background. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Guha Balakrishnan , Amy Zhao , Adrian V. Dalca , Fredo Durand , John Guttag

In this paper, we introduce a MusIc conditioned 3D Dance GEneraTion model, named MIDGET based on Dance motion Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) model and Motion Generative Pre-Training (GPT) model to generate vibrant and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jinwu Wang , Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu

The beauty of synchronized dancing lies in the synchronization of body movements among multiple dancers. While dancers utilize camera recordings for their practice, standard video interfaces do not efficiently support their activities of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Zhongyi Zhou , Anran Xu , Koji Yatani