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Generating expressive conducting gestures from music is a challenging cross-modal motion synthesis problem: the output must follow long-range musical structure, preserve beat-level synchronization, and remain plausible as a fine-grained 3D…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ke Qiu , Yawen Qin , Tianzhi Jia , Xiaole Yang , Kaimin Wang , Kaixing Yang

Recent advancements in human video synthesis have enabled the generation of high-quality videos through the application of stable diffusion models. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on animating solely the human element…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Mengyang Feng , Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui

Generating and representing human behavior are of major importance for various computer vision applications. Commonly, human video synthesis represents behavior as sequences of postures while directly predicting their likely progressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Andreas Blattmann , Timo Milbich , Michael Dorkenwald , Björn Ommer

Styled motion in-betweening is crucial for computer animation and gaming. However, existing methods typically encode motion styles by modeling whole-body motions, often overlooking the representation of individual body parts. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Minyue Dai , Ke Fan , Bin Ji , Haoran Xu , Haoyu Zhao , Junting Dong , Jingbo Wang , Bo Dai

Modern artistic productions increasingly demand automated choreography generation that adapts to diverse musical styles and individual dancer characteristics. Existing approaches often fail to produce high-quality dance videos that…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xuanchen Wang , Heng Wang , Weidong Cai

One of the most efficient ways of generating goal-directed walking motions is synthesising the final motion based on footprints. Nevertheless, current implementations have not examined the generation of continuous motion based on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Christos Mousas , Paul Newbury , Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos

We address the challenge of effectively controlling the locomotion of legged robots by incorporating precise frequency and phase characteristics, which is often ignored in locomotion policies that do not account for the periodic nature of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Taixian Hou , Yueqi Zhang , Xiaoyi Wei , Zhiyan Dong , Jiafu Yi , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

Human motion generation aims to generate natural human pose sequences and shows immense potential for real-world applications. Substantial progress has been made recently in motion data collection technologies and generation methods, laying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Dongwoo Ro , Hai Ci , Jinlu Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

We introduce Multimodal DuetDance (MDD), a diverse multimodal benchmark dataset designed for text-controlled and music-conditioned 3D duet dance motion generation. Our dataset comprises 620 minutes of high-quality motion capture data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Prerit Gupta , Jason Alexander Fotso-Puepi , Zhengyuan Li , Jay Mehta , Aniket Bera

Large-scale capture of human motion with diverse, complex scenes, while immensely useful, is often considered prohibitively costly. Meanwhile, human motion alone contains rich information about the scene they reside in and interact with.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Sifan Ye , Yixing Wang , Jiaman Li , Dennis Park , C. Karen Liu , Huazhe Xu , Jiajun Wu

Although audio-visual representation has been proved to be applicable in many downstream tasks, the representation of dancing videos, which is more specific and always accompanied by music with complex auditory contents, remains challenging…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiashuo Yu , Junfu Pu , Ying Cheng , Rui Feng , Ying Shan

We present GenMM, a generative model that "mines" as many diverse motions as possible from a single or few example sequences. In stark contrast to existing data-driven methods, which typically require long offline training time, are prone…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Weiyu Li , Xuelin Chen , Peizhuo Li , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Baoquan Chen

The advancement of generative AI has extended to the realm of Human Dance Generation, demonstrating superior generative capacities. However, current methods still exhibit deficiencies in achieving spatiotemporal consistency, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haipeng Fang , Zhihao Sun , Ziyao Huang , Fan Tang , Juan Cao , Sheng Tang

Dance-driven music generation aims to generate musical pieces conditioned on dance videos. Previous works focus on monophonic or raw audio generation, while the multi-instruments scenario is under-explored. The challenges associated with…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Bo Han , Yuheng Li , Yixuan Shen , Yi Ren , Feilin Han

Music-driven dance generation has garnered significant attention due to its wide range of industrial applications, particularly in the creation of group choreography. During the group dance generation process, however, most existing methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yuqin Dai , Wanlu Zhu , Ronghui Li , Xiu Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Li , Jian Yang

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

Choreographers determine what the dances look like, while cameramen determine the final presentation of dances. Recently, various methods and datasets have showcased the feasibility of dance synthesis. However, camera movement synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zixuan Wang , Jia Jia , Shikun Sun , Haozhe Wu , Rong Han , Zhenyu Li , Di Tang , Jiaqing Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Human movement is goal-directed and influenced by the spatial layout of the objects in the scene. To plan future human motion, it is crucial to perceive the environment -- imagine how hard it is to navigate a new room with lights off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Zhe Cao , Hang Gao , Karttikeya Mangalam , Qi-Zhi Cai , Minh Vo , Jitendra Malik

Lyrics often convey information about the songs that are beyond the auditory dimension, enriching the semantic meaning of movements and musical themes. Such insights are important in the dance choreography domain. However, most existing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Wenjie Yin , Qingyuan Yao , Yi Yu , Hang Yin , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman

This paper introduces HarmonySet, a comprehensive dataset designed to advance video-music understanding. HarmonySet consists of 48,328 diverse video-music pairs, annotated with detailed information on rhythmic synchronization, emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zitang Zhou , Ke Mei , Yu Lu , Tianyi Wang , Fengyun Rao