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We introduce ACE-Step, a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance through a holistic architectural design. Current methods face…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Junmin Gong , Sean Zhao , Sen Wang , Shengyuan Xu , Joe Guo

Dance-to-music generation aims to generate music that is aligned with dance movements. Existing approaches typically rely on body motion features extracted from a single human dancer and limited dance-to-music datasets, which restrict their…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jaekwon Im , Natalia Polouliakh , Taketo Akama

Music-driven 3D dance generation offers significant creative potential, yet practical applications demand versatile and multimodal control. As the highly dynamic and complex human motion covering various styles and genres, dance generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jinlu Zhang , Zixi Kang , Libin Liu , Jianlong Chang , Qi Tian , Feng Gao , Yizhou Wang

Dance typically involves professional choreography with complex movements that follow a musical rhythm and can also be influenced by lyrical content. The integration of lyrics in addition to the auditory dimension, enriches the foundational…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Wenjie Yin , Xuejiao Zhao , Yi Yu , Hang Yin , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman

Recent advances in generative models have made it possible to create high-quality, coherent music, with some systems delivering production-level output. Yet, most existing models focus solely on generating music from scratch, limiting their…

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small dataset from a large dataset, enabling the model trained on it to perform well on the original dataset. With the blooming of large language models and multimodal large language models, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhenghao Zhao , Haoxuan Wang , Junyi Wu , Yuzhang Shang , Gaowen Liu , Yan Yan

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for music-driven dance motion synthesis with controllable key pose constraint. In contrast to methods that generate dance motion sequences only based on music without any other controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Junfu Pu , Ying Shan

We present X-Dancer, a novel zero-shot music-driven image animation pipeline that creates diverse and long-range lifelike human dance videos from a single static image. As its core, we introduce a unified transformer-diffusion framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zeyuan Chen , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Chenxu Zhang , Xin Chen , Chao Wang , Di Chang , Linjie Luo

Generating 3D dances from music is an emerged research task that benefits a lot of applications in vision and graphics. Previous works treat this task as sequence generation, however, it is challenging to render a music-aligned long-term…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Buyu Li , Yongchi Zhao , Zhelun Shi , Lu Sheng

Music-to-dance generation represents a challenging yet pivotal task at the intersection of choreography, virtual reality, and creative content generation. Despite its significance, existing methods face substantial limitation in achieving…

How to automatically synthesize natural-looking dance movements based on a piece of music is an incrementally popular yet challenging task. Most existing data-driven approaches require hard-to-get paired training data and fail to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Bin Feng , Tenglong Ao , Zequn Liu , Wei Ju , Libin Liu , Ming Zhang

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

Human dance generation (HDG) aims to synthesize realistic videos from images and sequences of driving poses. Despite great success, existing methods are limited to generating videos of a single person with specific backgrounds, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhe Xu , Kun Wei , Xu Yang , Cheng Deng

Multimodal music creation requires models that can both generate audio from high-level cues and edit existing mixtures in a targeted manner. Yet most multimodal music systems are built for a single task and a fixed prompting interface,…

Generative AI has made significant strides in computer vision, particularly in text-driven image/video synthesis (T2I/T2V). Despite the notable advancements, it remains challenging in human-centric content synthesis such as realistic dance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Tan Wang , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Yuanhao Zhai , Chung-Ching Lin , Zhengyuan Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Dance requires skillful composition of complex movements that follow rhythmic, tonal and timbral features of music. Formally, generating dance conditioned on a piece of music can be expressed as a problem of modelling a high-dimensional…

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

Music-driven choreography is a challenging problem with a wide variety of industrial applications. Recently, many methods have been proposed to synthesize dance motions from music for a single dancer. However, generating dance motion for a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Nhat Le , Thang Pham , Tuong Do , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

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

The seamless integration of music with dance movements is essential for communicating the artistic intent of a dance piece. This alignment also significantly improves the immersive quality of gaming experiences and animation productions.…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Sifei Li , Weiming Dong , Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Chongyang Ma , Oliver Deussen , Tong-Yee Lee , Changsheng Xu