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The prediction of humans' short-term trajectories has advanced significantly with the use of powerful sequential modeling and rich environment feature extraction. However, long-term prediction is still a major challenge for the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Hung Tran , Vuong Le , Truyen Tran

Recent years have seen substantial progress in diffusion-based controllable video generation. However, achieving precise control in complex scenarios, including fine-grained object parts, sophisticated motion trajectories, and coherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Haitao Zhou , Chuang Wang , Rui Nie , Jinlin Liu , Dongdong Yu , Qian Yu , Changhu Wang

This paper presents a novel data-driven crowd simulation method that can mimic the observed traffic of pedestrians in a given environment. Given a set of observed trajectories, we use a recent form of neural networks, Generative Adversarial…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Javad Amirian , Wouter van Toll , Jean-Bernard Hayet , Julien Pettré

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

Diffusion models have recently emerged as effective generative frameworks for trajectory optimization, capable of producing high-quality and diverse solutions. However, training these models in a purely data-driven manner without explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Anjian Li , Ryne Beeson

Generating realistic simulations is critical for autonomous system applications such as self-driving and human-robot interactions. However, driving simulators nowadays still have difficulty in generating controllable, diverse, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yue Meng , Chuchu fan

Motion prediction is a challenging problem in autonomous driving as it demands the system to comprehend stochastic dynamics and the multi-modal nature of real-world agent interactions. Diffusion models have recently risen to prominence, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jiahui Li , Tianle Shen , Zekai Gu , Jiawei Sun , Chengran Yuan , Yuhang Han , Shuo Sun , Marcelo H. Ang

Vessel trajectory prediction is a critical component for ensuring maritime traffic safety and avoiding collisions. Due to the inherent uncertainty in vessel behavior, trajectory prediction systems must adopt a multimodal approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jin Wenzhe , Tang Haina , Zhang Xudong

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is a challenging task because of the complexity of real-world human social behaviors and uncertainty of the future motion. For the first issue, existing methods adopt fully connected topology for modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Lidan Zhang , Qi She , Ping Guo

Text-driven human motion generation in computer vision is both significant and challenging. However, current methods are limited to producing either deterministic or imprecise motion sequences, failing to effectively control the temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yin Wang , Zhiying Leng , Frederick W. B. Li , Shun-Cheng Wu , Xiaohui Liang

Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works address the problem by predicting individual trajectories and considering surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya , Paul Henderson , Marwa Mahmoud

We present PACE, a novel method for modifying motion-captured virtual agents to interact with and move throughout dense, cluttered 3D scenes. Our approach changes a given motion sequence of a virtual agent as needed to adjust to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 James Mullen , Dinesh Manocha

Video diffusion models provide powerful real-world simulators for embodied AI but remain limited in controllability for robotic manipulation. Recent works on trajectory-conditioned video generation address this gap but often rely on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok

Data-driven and controllable human motion synthesis and prediction are active research areas with various applications in interactive media and social robotics. Challenges remain in these fields for generating diverse motions given past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wenjie Yin , Ruibo Tu , Hang Yin , Danica Kragic , Hedvig Kjellström , Mårten Björkman

Achieving precise, versatile whole-body character control in physics-based animation remains challenging. Recent diffusion-based policies generate rich and expressive motions but typically rely on gradient-based test-time guidance to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chia-Wen Chen , Yan Wu , Korrawe Karunratanakul , Siyu Tang

Although the estimation of 3D human pose and shape (HPS) is rapidly progressing, current methods still cannot reliably estimate moving humans in global coordinates, which is critical for many applications. This is particularly challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yu Sun , Qian Bao , Wu Liu , Tao Mei , Michael J. Black

Prediction of human motions is key for safe navigation of autonomous robots among humans. In cluttered environments, several motion hypotheses may exist for a pedestrian, due to its interactions with the environment and other pedestrians.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Bruno Brito , Hai Zhu , Wei Pan , Javier Alonso-Mora

Controllable generation of 3D human motions becomes an important topic as the world embraces digital transformation. Existing works, though making promising progress with the advent of diffusion models, heavily rely on meticulously captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Nhat M. Hoang , Kehong Gong , Chuan Guo , Michael Bi Mi

Modeling generalized robot control policies poses ongoing challenges for language-guided robot manipulation tasks. Existing methods often struggle to efficiently utilize cross-dataset resources or rely on resource-intensive vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Wenhui Tan , Bei Liu , Junbo Zhang , Ruihua Song , Jianlong Fu

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and physical information just from dynamic multi-view videos in the absence of any human labels. By leveraging physics-informed losses as soft constraints or integrating simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Bo Yang