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We present visual action prompts, a unified action representation for action-to-video generation of complex high-DoF interactions while maintaining transferable visual dynamics across domains. Action-driven video generation faces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuang Wang , Chao Wen , Haoyu Guo , Sida Peng , Minghan Qin , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou , Ruizhen Hu

It is common practice to represent spoken languages at their phonetic level. However, for sign languages, this implies breaking motion into its constituent motion primitives. Avatar based Sign Language Production (SLP) has traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Direct speech-to-speech translation achieves high-quality results through the introduction of discrete units obtained from self-supervised learning. This approach circumvents delays and cascading errors associated with model cascading.…

Audio-driven talking head generation holds significant potential for film production. While existing 3D methods have advanced motion modeling and content synthesis, they often produce rendering artifacts, such as motion blur, temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kui Jiang , Shiyu Liu , Junjun Jiang , Hongxun Yao , Xiaopeng Fan

In this work, we propose TextIM, a novel framework for synthesizing TEXT-driven human Interactive Motions, with a focus on the precise alignment of part-level semantics. Existing methods often overlook the critical roles of interactive body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Siyuan Fan , Bo Du , Xiantao Cai , Bo Peng , Longling Sun

This paper explores a cross-modality synthesis task that infers 3D human-object interactions (HOIs) from a given text-based instruction. Existing text-to-HOI synthesis methods mainly deploy a direct mapping from texts to object-specific 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuehao Gao , Yang Yang , Shaoyi Du , Yang Wu , Yebin Liu , Guo-Jun Qi

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Xinsheng Wang , Qicong Xie , Jihua Zhu , Lei Xie , Scharenborg

Motion generation, the task of synthesizing realistic motion sequences from various conditioning inputs, has become a central problem in computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics, with applications ranging from animation and virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Aliasghar Khani , Arianna Rampini , Bruno Roy , Larasika Nadela , Noa Kaplan , Evan Atherton , Derek Cheung , Jacky Bibliowicz

With the development of robotics, skeleton-based action recognition has become increasingly important, as human-robot interaction requires understanding the actions of humans and humanoid robots. Due to different sources of human skeletons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jidong Kuang , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

Co-speech gesture video synthesis is a challenging task that requires both probabilistic modeling of human gestures and the synthesis of realistic images that align with the rhythmic nuances of speech. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yasheng Sun , Zhiliang Xu , Hang Zhou , Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Borong Liang , Yingying Li , Haocheng Feng , Jingdong Wang , Ziwei Liu , Koike Hideki

Generating realistic human motions that naturally respond to both spoken language and physical objects is crucial for interactive digital experiences. Current methods, however, address speech-driven gestures or object interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sreehari Rajan , Kunal Bhosikar , Charu Sharma

This paper introduces MotionGlot, a model that can generate motion across multiple embodiments with different action dimensions, such as quadruped robots and human bodies. By leveraging the well-established training procedures commonly used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Sudarshan Harithas , Srinath Sridhar

We propose a novel learned deep prior of body motion for 3D hand shape synthesis and estimation in the domain of conversational gestures. Our model builds upon the insight that body motion and hand gestures are strongly correlated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Evonne Ng , Shiry Ginosar , Trevor Darrell , Hanbyul Joo

We devise a cascade GAN approach to generate talking face video, which is robust to different face shapes, view angles, facial characteristics, and noisy audio conditions. Instead of learning a direct mapping from audio to video frames, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Lele Chen , Ross K. Maddox , Zhiyao Duan , Chenliang Xu

Humans are able to imagine a person's voice from the person's appearance and imagine the person's appearance from his/her voice. In this paper, we make the first attempt to develop a method that can convert speech into a voice that matches…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Hirokazu Kameoka , Kou Tanaka , Aaron Valero Puche , Yasunori Ohishi , Takuhiro Kaneko

Language-guided human motion synthesis has been a challenging task due to the inherent complexity and diversity of human behaviors. Previous methods face limitations in generalization to novel actions, often resulting in unrealistic or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yuanhao Zhai , Mingzhen Huang , Tianyu Luan , Lu Dong , Ifeoma Nwogu , Siwei Lyu , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan

Synthesizing realistic co-speech gestures is an important and yet unsolved problem for creating believable motions that can drive a humanoid robot to interact and communicate with human users. Such capability will improve the impressions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shuhong Lu , Youngwoo Yoon , Andrew Feng

The modeling of human motion using machine learning methods has been widely studied. In essence it is a time-series modeling problem involving predicting how a person will move in the future given how they moved in the past. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yan Zhang , Michael J. Black , Siyu Tang