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Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

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

We propose the first approach to automatically and jointly synthesize both the synchronous 3D conversational body and hand gestures, as well as 3D face and head animations, of a virtual character from speech input. Our algorithm uses a CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ikhsanul Habibie , Weipeng Xu , Dushyant Mehta , Lingjie Liu , Hans-Peter Seidel , Gerard Pons-Moll , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

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

Choreography refers to creation of dance steps and motions for dances according to the latent knowledge in human mind, where the created dance motions are in general style-specific and consistent. So far, such latent style-specific…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xinjian Zhang , Yi Xu , Su Yang , Longwen Gao , Huyang Sun

This paper presents an Exploratory 3D Dance generation framework, E3D2, designed to address the exploration capability deficiency in existing music-conditioned 3D dance generation models. Current models often generate monotonous and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zilin Wang , Haolin Zhuang , Lu Li , Yinmin Zhang , Junjie Zhong , Jun Chen , Yu Yang , Boshi Tang , Zhiyong Wu

Dancing to music is one of human's innate abilities since ancient times. In machine learning research, however, synthesizing dance movements from music is a challenging problem. Recently, researchers synthesize human motion sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ruozi Huang , Huang Hu , Wei Wu , Kei Sawada , Mi Zhang , Daxin Jiang

When hearing music, it is natural for people to dance to its rhythm. Automatic dance generation, however, is a challenging task due to the physical constraints of human motion and rhythmic alignment with target music. Conventional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qiaosong Qi , Le Zhuo , Aixi Zhang , Yue Liao , Fei Fang , Si Liu , Shuicheng Yan

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

Modern generative video models excel at producing convincing, high-quality outputs, but struggle to maintain multi-view and spatiotemporal consistency in highly dynamic real-world environments. In this work, we introduce \textbf{AnyView}, a…

Recent pose-to-video models can translate 2D pose sequences into photorealistic, identity-preserving dance videos, so the key challenge is to generate temporally coherent, rhythm-aligned 2D poses from music, especially under complex,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yan Zhang , Han Zou , Lincong Feng , Cong Xie , Ruiqi Yu , Zhenpeng Zhan

Video data is more cost-effective than motion capture data for learning 3D character motion controllers, yet synthesizing realistic and diverse behaviors directly from videos remains challenging. Previous approaches typically rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianan Li , Xiao Chen , Tao Huang , Tien-Tsin Wong

Although humans engaged in face-to-face conversation simultaneously communicate both verbally and non-verbally, methods for joint and unified synthesis of speech audio and co-speech 3D gesture motion from text are a new and emerging field.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shivam Mehta , Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Birger Moëll , Jonas Beskow , Gustav Eje Henter , Simon Alexanderson

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

Music-to-dance generation aims to synthesize human dance motion conditioned on musical input. Despite recent progress, significant challenges remain due to the semantic gap between music and dance motion, as music offers only abstract cues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qing Wang , Xiaohang Yang , Yilan Dong , Naveen Raj Govindaraj , Gregory Slabaugh , Shanxin Yuan

"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 introduce a non-parametric approach for infinite video texture synthesis using a representation learned via contrastive learning. We take inspiration from Video Textures, which showed that plausible new videos could be generated from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Medhini Narasimhan , Shiry Ginosar , Andrew Owens , Alexei A. Efros , Trevor Darrell

Synthesizing human's movements such as dancing is a flourishing research field which has several applications in computer graphics. Recent studies have demonstrated the advantages of deep neural networks (DNNs) for achieving remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Nelson Yalta , Shinji Watanabe , Kazuhiro Nakadai , Tetsuya Ogata

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

As two intimate reciprocal tasks, scene-aware human motion synthesis and analysis require a joint understanding between multiple modalities, including 3D body motions, 3D scenes, and textual descriptions. In this paper, we integrate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xuehao Gao , Yang Yang , Shaoyi Du , Guo-Jun Qi , Junwei Han