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Human motion synthesis conditioned on textual input has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential applications in various domains such as gaming, film production, and virtual reality. Conditioned Motion synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Avinash Amballa , Gayathri Akkinapalli , Vinitra Muralikrishnan

Human motion analysis tasks, such as temporal 3D pose estimation, motion prediction, and motion in-betweening, play an essential role in computer vision. However, current paradigms suffer from severe fragmentation. First, the field is split…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinshun Wang , Peiming Li , Ziyi Wang , Zhongbin Fang , Zhichao Deng , Songtao Wu , Jason Li , Mengyuan Liu

Recent advances in motion generation show remarkable progress. However, several limitations remain: (1) Existing pose-guided character motion transfer methods merely replicate motion without learning its style characteristics, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziyun Qian , Runyu Xiao , Shuyuan Tu , Wei Xue , Dingkang Yang , Mingcheng Li , Dongliang Kou , Minghao Han , Zizhi Chen , Lihua Zhang

In this paper, we propose Dynamics Transfer GAN; a new method for generating video sequences based on generative adversarial learning. The spatial constructs of a generated video sequence are acquired from the target image. The dynamics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Wissam J. Baddar , Geonmo Gu , Sangmin Lee , Yong Man Ro

Our paper aims to generate diverse and realistic animal motion sequences from textual descriptions, without a large-scale animal text-motion dataset. While the task of text-driven human motion synthesis is already extensively studied and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhangsihao Yang , Mingyuan Zhou , Mengyi Shan , Bingbing Wen , Ziwei Xuan , Mitch Hill , Junjie Bai , Guo-Jun Qi , Yalin Wang

Video generation requires synthesizing consistent and persistent frames with dynamic content over time. This work investigates modeling the temporal relations for composing video with arbitrary length, from a few frames to even infinite,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Qihang Zhang , Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Bolei Zhou

We present a method to generate a video sequence given a single image. Because items in an image can be animated in arbitrarily many different ways, we introduce as control signal a sequence of motion strokes. Such control signal can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Qiyang Hu , Adrian Wälchli , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

Animation and machine learning research have shown great advancements in the past decade, leading to robust and powerful methods for learning complex physically-based animations. However, learning can take hours or days, especially if no…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Amin Babadi , Kourosh Naderi , Perttu Hämäläinen

Motion generation is a cornerstone of computer graphics, animation, gaming, and robotics, enabling the creation of realistic and varied character movements. A significant limitation of existing methods is their reliance on specific skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Evan Atherton , Bruno Roy

Current human motion synthesis frameworks rely on global action descriptions, creating a modality gap that limits both motion understanding and generation capabilities. A single coarse description, such as run, fails to capture details such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pengfei Zhang , Pinxin Liu , Pablo Garrido , Hyeongwoo Kim , Bindita Chaudhuri

Animation elevates digital documents into immersive experiences, yet creating custom motion paths remains cumbersome, requiring designers to manually select presets, plot B\'ezier points, and configure timing properties. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mannat Khurana , Sanyam Jain , Rishav Agarwal

Although existing text-to-motion (T2M) methods can produce realistic human motion from text description, it is still difficult to align the generated motion with the desired postures since using text alone is insufficient for precisely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Ling-An Zeng , Gaojie Wu , Ancong Wu , Jian-Fang Hu , Wei-Shi Zheng

Synthesizing human motion with a global structure, such as a choreography, is a challenging task. Existing methods tend to concentrate on local smooth pose transitions and neglect the global context or the theme of the motion. In this work,…

We present Neural Marionette, an unsupervised approach that discovers the skeletal structure from a dynamic sequence and learns to generate diverse motions that are consistent with the observed motion dynamics. Given a video stream of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jinseok Bae , Hojun Jang , Cheol-Hui Min , Hyungun Choi , Young Min Kim

Although humans have the innate ability to imagine multiple possible actions from videos, it remains an extraordinary challenge for computers due to the intricate camera movements and montages. Most existing motion generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Liangdong Qiu , Chengxing Yu , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Di Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xiaoguang Han

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

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

We present a technique for synthesizing a motion blurred image from a pair of unblurred images captured in succession. To build this system we motivate and design a differentiable "line prediction" layer to be used as part of a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Tim Brooks , Jonathan T. Barron

The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. Previous works designed network structures on individual datasets, which resulted in a lack of data volume and generalizability across different motion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sicheng Yang , Zilin Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Qiaochu Huang , Lei Hao , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , changpeng yang , Zonghong Dai

The ability to generate complex and realistic human body animations at scale, while following specific artistic constraints, has been a fundamental goal for the game and animation industry for decades. Popular techniques include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Yi Zhou , Jingwan Lu , Connelly Barnes , Jimei Yang , Sitao Xiang , Hao li