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Synthesizing 3D human avatars interacting realistically with a scene is an important problem with applications in AR/VR, video games and robotics. Towards this goal, we address the task of generating a virtual human -- hands and full body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Purva Tendulkar , Dídac Surís , Carl Vondrick

Hands are central to interacting with our surroundings and conveying gestures, making their inclusion essential for full-body motion synthesis. Despite this, existing human motion synthesis methods fall short: some ignore hand motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Enes Duran , Nikos Athanasiou , Muhammed Kocabas , Michael J. Black , Omid Taheri

This work addresses the problem of generating 3D holistic body motions from human speech. Given a speech recording, we synthesize sequences of 3D body poses, hand gestures, and facial expressions that are realistic and diverse. To achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hongwei Yi , Hualin Liang , Yifei Liu , Qiong Cao , Yandong Wen , Timo Bolkart , Dacheng Tao , Michael J. Black

Natural language plays a critical role in many computer vision applications, such as image captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal retrieval, to provide fine-grained semantic information. Unfortunately, while human pose is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Ginger Delmas , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Thomas Lucas , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Grégory Rogez

Modeling human behaviors in contextual environments has a wide range of applications in character animation, embodied AI, VR/AR, and robotics. In real-world scenarios, humans frequently interact with the environment and manipulate various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jiaman Li , Jiajun Wu , C. Karen Liu

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

This paper addresses the challenge of learning semantically and functionally meaningful 3D motion priors from real-world videos, in order to enable prediction of future 3D scene motion from a single input image. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jiahui Lei , Kyle Genova , George Kopanas , Noah Snavely , Leonidas Guibas

Existing marker-less motion capture methods often assume known backgrounds, static cameras, and sequence specific motion priors, which narrows its application scenarios. Here we propose a fully automatic method that given multi-view video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Yinghao Huang , Federica Bogo , Christoph Lassner , Angjoo Kanazawa , Peter V. Gehler , Ijaz Akhter , Michael J. Black

We present a new method to capture detailed human motion, sampling more than 1000 unique points on the body. Our method outputs highly accurate 4D (spatio-temporal) point coordinates and, crucially, automatically assigns a unique label to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 He Chen , Hyojoon Park , Kutay Macit , Ladislav Kavan

Recovering high-quality 3D human motion in complex scenes from monocular videos is important for many applications, ranging from AR/VR to robotics. However, capturing realistic human-scene interactions, while dealing with occlusions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Siwei Zhang , Yan Zhang , Federica Bogo , Marc Pollefeys , Siyu Tang

The great success of wearables and smartphone apps for provision of extensive physical workout instructions boosts a whole industry dealing with consumer oriented sensors and sports equipment. But with these opportunities there are also new…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Andre Ebert , Marie Kiermeier , Chadly Marouane , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Text-conditioned video diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool in the realm of video generation and editing. But their ability to capture the nuances of human movement remains under-explored. Indeed the ability of these models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Paul Janson , Tiberiu Popa , Eugene Belilovsky

Text-based 3D human motion editing is a critical yet challenging task in computer vision and graphics. While training-free approaches have been explored, the recent release of the MotionFix dataset, which includes source-text-motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhengyuan Li , Kai Cheng , Anindita Ghosh , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Liangyan Gui , Aniket Bera

This paper addresses the problem of cross-dataset generalization of 3D human pose estimation models. Testing a pre-trained 3D pose estimator on a new dataset results in a major performance drop. Previous methods have mainly addressed this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Mohsen Gholami , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin , Rabab Ward , Z. Jane Wang

Marker-based motion capture (MoCap) systems have long been the gold standard for accurate 4D human modeling, yet their reliance on specialized hardware and markers limits scalability and real-world deployment. Advancing reliable markerless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yeeun Park , Miqdad Naduthodi , Suryansh Kumar

Markerless motion capture has become an active field of research in computer vision in recent years. Its extensive applications are known in a great variety of fields, including computer animation, human motion analysis, biomedical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Doan Duy Vo , Russell Butler

Understanding how humans interact with the world necessitates accurate 3D hand pose estimation, a task complicated by the hand's high degree of articulation, frequent occlusions, self-occlusions, and rapid motions. While most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Enes Duran , Muhammed Kocabas , Vasileios Choutas , Zicong Fan , Michael J. Black

Human motion forecasting, with the goal of estimating future human behavior over a period of time, is a fundamental task in many real-world applications. However, existing works typically concentrate on predicting the major joints of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Pengxiang Ding , Qiongjie Cui , Min Zhang , Mengyuan Liu , Haofan Wang , Donglin Wang

Videos are more informative than images because they capture the dynamics of the scene. By representing motion in videos, we can capture dynamic activities. In this work, we introduce GPT-4 generated motion descriptions that capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Chinmaya Devaraj , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

The task of text2motion is to generate human motion sequences from given textual descriptions, where the model explores diverse mappings from natural language instructions to human body movements. While most existing works are confined to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Kunhang Li , Yansong Feng