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Learning useful representations without supervision remains a key challenge in machine learning. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful generative model that learns such discrete representations. Our model, the Vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals , Koray Kavukcuoglu

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

Human motion data is inherently rich and complex, containing both semantic content and subtle stylistic features that are challenging to model. We propose a novel method for effective disentanglement of the style and content in human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Fatemeh Zargarbashi , Dhruv Agrawal , Jakob Buhmann , Martin Guay , Stelian Coros , Robert W. Sumner

We present a deep learning method for composite and task-driven motion control for physically simulated characters. In contrast to existing data-driven approaches using reinforcement learning that imitate full-body motions, we learn…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Pei Xu , Xiumin Shang , Victor Zordan , Ioannis Karamouzas

Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guian Fang , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

Human pose, action, and motion generation are critical for applications in digital humans, character animation, and humanoid robotics. However, many existing methods struggle to produce physically plausible movements that are consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Zixi Kang , Xinghan Wang , Yadong Mu

Long-term human motion can be represented as a series of motion modes---motion sequences that capture short-term temporal dynamics---with transitions between them. We leverage this structure and present a novel Motion Transformation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Xinchen Yan , Akash Rastogi , Ruben Villegas , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Eli Shechtman , Sunil Hadap , Ersin Yumer , Honglak Lee

Imitation learning is a promising approach to end-to-end training of autonomous vehicle controllers. Typically the driving process with such approaches is entirely automatic and black-box, although in practice it is desirable to control the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Renhao Wang , Adam Scibior , Frank Wood

Producing long, coherent video sequences with stable 3D structure remains a major challenge, particularly in streaming scenarios. Motivated by this, we introduce Endless World, a real-time framework for infinite, 3D-consistent video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ke Zhang , Yiqun Mei , Jiacong Xu , Vishal M. Patel

Controllable image generation has always been one of the core demands in image generation, aiming to create images that are both creative and logical while satisfying additional specified conditions. In the post-AIGC era, controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Guandong Li

Text-editable and pose-controllable character video generation is a challenging but prevailing topic with practical applications. However, existing approaches mainly focus on single-object video generation with pose guidance, ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Beiyuan Zhang , Yue Ma , Chunlei Fu , Xinyang Song , Zhenan Sun , Ziqiang Li

In order to increase the number of situations in which an intelligent vehicle can operate without human intervention, lateral control is required to accurately guide it in a reference trajectory regardless of the shape of the road or the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Marcos Moreno-Gonzalez , Antonio Artuñedo , Jorge Villagra , Cédric Join , Michel Fliess

We propose $\textit{iterative inversion}$ -- an algorithm for learning an inverse function without input-output pairs, but only with samples from the desired output distribution and access to the forward function. The key challenge is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Gal Leibovich , Guy Jacob , Or Avner , Gal Novik , Aviv Tamar

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

Anticipating the multimodality of future events lays the foundation for safe autonomous driving. However, multimodal motion prediction for traffic agents has been clouded by the lack of multimodal ground truth. Existing works predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zikang Zhou , Hengjian Zhou , Haibo Hu , Zihao Wen , Jianping Wang , Yung-Hui Li , Yu-Kai Huang

Long-term human trajectory prediction is a challenging yet critical task in robotics and autonomous systems. Prior work that studied how to predict accurate short-term human trajectories with only unimodal features often failed in long-term…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Zhitian Zhang , Anjian Li , Angelica Lim , Mo Chen

This paper develops a general framework for multi-agent control synthesis, which applies to a wide range of problems with convergence guarantees, including those with time-varying objective functions. The proposed framework achieves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Ruoyu Lin , Gennaro Notomista , Magnus Egerstedt

Videos express highly structured spatio-temporal patterns of visual data. A video can be thought of as being governed by two factors: (i) temporally invariant (e.g., person identity), or slowly varying (e.g., activity), attribute-induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Jiawei He , Andreas Lehrmann , Joseph Marino , Greg Mori , Leonid Sigal

Accurate trajectory prediction is fundamental to autonomous driving, as it underpins safe motion planning and collision avoidance in complex environments. However, existing benchmark datasets suffer from a pronounced long-tail distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ruining Yang , Yi Xu , Yixiao Chen , Yun Fu , Lili Su

Autoregressive video diffusion models enable open-ended generation through local attention and KV caching. However, existing training-free long-video optimization methods mainly focus on stable extension under a single prompt, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mingqiang Wu , Weilun Feng , Zhefeng Zhang , Haotong Qin , Yuqi Li , Guoxin Fan , Xiaokun Liu , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Yongjun Xu , Chuanguang Yang