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This paper introduces a framework, called EMOTION, for generating expressive motion sequences in humanoid robots, enhancing their ability to engage in humanlike non-verbal communication. Non-verbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures,…

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In this paper, we describe a system for generating three-dimensional visual simulations of natural language motion expressions. We use a rich formal model of events and their participants to generate simulations that satisfy the minimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Nikhil Krishnaswamy , James Pustejovsky

Existing representations for human motion, such as MotionGPT, often operate as black-box latent vectors with limited interpretability and build on joint positions which can cause ambiguity. Inspired by the hierarchical structure of natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yao Zhang , Zhuchenyang Liu , Yu Xiao

Rapid development of social robots stimulates active research in human motion modeling, interpretation and prediction, proactive collision avoidance, human-robot interaction and co-habitation in shared spaces. Modern approaches to this end…

Text-guided human body animation has advanced rapidly, yet facial animation lags due to the scarcity of well-annotated, text-paired facial corpora. To close this gap, we leverage foundation generative models to synthesize a large, balanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luchuan Song , Pinxin Liu , Haiyang Liu , Zhenchao Jin , Yolo Yunlong Tang , Zichong Xu , Susan Liang , Jing Bi , Jason J Corso , Chenliang Xu

This paper strives for motion-focused video-language representations. Existing methods to learn video-language representations use spatial-focused data, where identifying the objects and scene is often enough to distinguish the relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hazel Doughty , Fida Mohammad Thoker , Cees G. M. Snoek

Natural language provides an intuitive and expressive way of conveying human intent to robots. Prior works employed end-to-end methods for learning trajectory deformations from language corrections. However, such methods do not generalize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 J-Anne Yow , Neha Priyadarshini Garg , Manoj Ramanathan , Wei Tech Ang

Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal…

Automatic video description requires the generation of natural language statements about the actions, events, and objects in the video. An important human trait, when we describe a video, is that we are able to do this with variable levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Fatemeh Ziaeetabar , Reza Safabakhsh , Saeedeh Momtazi , Minija Tamosiunaite , Florentin Wörgötter

Existing text-to-video methods struggle to transfer motion smoothly from a reference object to a target object with significant differences in appearance or structure between them. To address this challenge, we introduce MotionShot, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yanchen Liu , Yanan Sun , Zhening Xing , Junyao Gao , Kai Chen , Wenjie Pei

Human motion synthesis is a fundamental task in computer animation. Despite recent progress in this field utilizing deep learning and motion capture data, existing methods are always limited to specific motion categories, environments, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zhikai Zhang , Yitang Li , Haofeng Huang , Mingxian Lin , Li Yi

Linking human whole-body motion and natural language is of great interest for the generation of semantic representations of observed human behaviors as well as for the generation of robot behaviors based on natural language input. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Matthias Plappert , Christian Mandery , Tamim Asfour

In this paper, we tackle the problem of how to build and benchmark a large motion model (LMM). The ultimate goal of LMM is to serve as a foundation model for versatile motion-related tasks, e.g., human motion generation, with…

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Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

Speech-driven 3D motion synthesis seeks to create lifelike animations based on human speech, with potential uses in virtual reality, gaming, and the film production. Existing approaches reply solely on speech audio for motion generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wenshuo Peng , Kaipeng Zhang , Sai Qian Zhang

An interesting problem in many video-based applications is the generation of short synopses by selecting the most informative frames, a procedure which is known as video summarization. For sign language videos the benefits of using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Evangelos G. Sartinas , Emmanouil Z. Psarakis , Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos

We present DiverseMotion, a new approach for synthesizing high-quality human motions conditioned on textual descriptions while preserving motion diversity.Despite the recent significant process in text-based human motion generation,existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yunhong Lou , Linchao Zhu , Yaxiong Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang

Language plays a vital role in the realm of human motion. Existing methods have largely depended on CLIP text embeddings for motion generation, yet they fall short in effectively aligning language and motion due to CLIP's pretraining on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhe Li , Weihao Yuan , Yisheng He , Lingteng Qiu , Shenhao Zhu , Xiaodong Gu , Weichao Shen , Yuan Dong , Zilong Dong , Laurence T. Yang

Video description is the automatic generation of natural language sentences that describe the contents of a given video. It has applications in human-robot interaction, helping the visually impaired and video subtitling. The past few years…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Nayyer Aafaq , Ajmal Mian , Wei Liu , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Mubarak Shah

Generating accurate descriptions of human actions in videos remains a challenging task for video captioning models. Existing approaches often struggle to capture fine-grained motion details, resulting in vague or semantically inconsistent…

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