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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…

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

Recent advances in dance generation have enabled the automatic synthesis of 3D dance motions. However, existing methods still face significant challenges in simultaneously achieving high realism, precise dance-music synchronization, diverse…

Dance serves as both a cultural cornerstone and a medium for personal expression, yet the rapid growth of online dance content has made personalized discovery increasingly difficult. Text-based dance retrieval offers a natural interface for…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yawen Qin , Ke Qiu , Qin Zhang

Close your eyes and listen to music, one can easily imagine an actor dancing rhythmically along with the music. These dance movements are usually made up of dance movements you have seen before. In this paper, we propose to reproduce such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Xin Guo , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li

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

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

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,…

In this work we present a novel, robust transition generation technique that can serve as a new tool for 3D animators, based on adversarial recurrent neural networks. The system synthesizes high-quality motions that use temporally-sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Félix G. Harvey , Mike Yurick , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

Recently, diffusion models have shown their impressive ability in visual generation tasks. Besides static images, more and more research attentions have been drawn to the generation of realistic videos. The video generation not only has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yucheng Xing , Jinxing Yin , Xiaodong Liu

This paper proposes a framework which is able to generate a sequence of three-dimensional human dance poses for a given music. The proposed framework consists of three components: a music feature encoder, a pose generator, and a music genre…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Hyemin Ahn , Jaehun Kim , Kihyun Kim , Songhwai Oh

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

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

Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle because absolute joint commands cannot compensate model-plant mismatch, leading to error accumulation. We propose RobotDancing, a simple, scalable framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhenguo Sun , Yibo Peng , Yuan Meng , Xukun Li , Bo-Sheng Huang , Zhenshan Bing , Xinlong Wang , Alois Knoll

Music-driven 3D dance generation has attracted increasing attention in recent years, with promising applications in choreography, virtual reality, and creative content creation. Previous research has generated promising realistic dance…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kaixing Yang , Xulong Tang , Ziqiao Peng , Yuxuan Hu , Jun He , Hongyan Liu

Ballroom dancing is a structured yet expressive motion category. Its highly diverse movement and complex interactions between leader and follower dancers make the understanding and synthesis challenging. We demonstrate that the three-point…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Peizhuo Li , Sebastian Starke , Yuting Ye , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

We present a learning-based approach with pose perceptual loss for automatic music video generation. Our method can produce a realistic dance video that conforms to the beats and rhymes of almost any given music. To achieve this, we firstly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Xuanchi Ren , Haoran Li , Zijian Huang , Qifeng Chen

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

Generating coherent and diverse human dances from music signals has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While existing methods support direct dance synthesis, they fail to recognize that enabling users to edit dance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hengyuan Zhang , Zhe Li , Xingqun Qi , Mengze Li , Muyi Sun , Man Zhang , Sirui Han

Dancing to music is an instinctive move by humans. Learning to model the music-to-dance generation process is, however, a challenging problem. It requires significant efforts to measure the correlation between music and dance as one needs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Hsin-Ying Lee , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Ting-Chun Wang , Yu-Ding Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jan Kautz