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Recent advances in world models have greatly enhanced interactive environment simulation. Existing methods mainly fall into two categories: (1) static world generation models, which construct 3D environments without active agents, and (2)…

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Text-to-video generation has shown promising results. However, by taking only natural languages as input, users often face difficulties in providing detailed information to precisely control the model's output. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yu-Chuan Su , Deqing Sun , Lu Jiang , Xuhui Jia , Yukun Zhu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Neural implicit fields are powerful for representing 3D scenes and generating high-quality novel views, but it remains challenging to use such implicit representations for creating a 3D human avatar with a specific identity and artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ruixiang Jiang , Can Wang , Jingbo Zhang , Menglei Chai , Mingming He , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

Creating high-dynamic videos such as motion-rich actions and sophisticated visual effects poses a significant challenge in the field of artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, current state-of-the-art video generation methods, primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yan Zeng , Guoqiang Wei , Jiani Zheng , Jiaxin Zou , Yang Wei , Yuchen Zhang , Hang Li

Graphical user interface (GUI) agents have advanced rapidly but still struggle with complex tasks involving novel UI elements, long-horizon actions, and personalized trajectories. In this work, we introduce Instruction Agent, a GUI agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yinheng Li , Hailey Hultquist , Justin Wagle , Kazuhito Koishida

Diffusion models have demonstrated superior performance in the field of portrait animation. However, current approaches relied on either visual or audio modality to control character movements, failing to exploit the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Shurong Yang , Huadong Li , Juhao Wu , Minhao Jing , Linze Li , Renhe Ji , Jiajun Liang , Haoqiang Fan , Jin Wang

In this paper, we propose the use of traditional animations, heuristic behavior and reinforcement learning in the creation of intelligent characters for computational media. The traditional animation and heuristic gives artistic control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Caio Souza , Luiz Velho

We address the task of generating temporally consistent and physically plausible images of actions and object state transformations. Given an input image and a text prompt describing the targeted transformation, our generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tomáš Souček , Dima Damen , Michael Wray , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic

The ability to communicate with robots using natural language is a significant step forward in human-robot interaction. However, accurately translating verbal commands into physical actions is promising, but still presents challenges.…

Animation of humanoid characters is essential in various graphics applications, but requires significant time and cost to create realistic animations. We propose an approach to synthesize 4D animated sequences of input static 3D humanoid…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Marc Benedí San Millán , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

We present a universal motion representation that encompasses a comprehensive range of motor skills for physics-based humanoid control. Due to the high dimensionality of humanoids and the inherent difficulties in reinforcement learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Josh Merel , Alexander Winkler , Jing Huang , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

This paper proposes the Transition Motion Tensor, a data-driven framework that creates novel and physically accurate transitions outside of the motion dataset. It enables simulated characters to adopt new motion skills efficiently and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jonathan Hans Soeseno , Ying-Sheng Luo , Trista Pei-Chun Chen , Wei-Chao Chen

How can robot manipulation policies generalize to novel tasks involving unseen object types and new motions? In this paper, we provide a solution in terms of predicting motion information from web data through human video generation and…

This paper presents a novel approach for exploring diverse and expressive motions that are physically correct and interactive. The approach combining user participation in with the animation development process using crowdsourcing to remove…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Benjamin Kenwright

When we humans look at a video of human-object interaction, we can not only infer what is happening but we can even extract actionable information and imitate those interactions. On the other hand, current recognition or geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kiana Ehsani , Shubham Tulsiani , Saurabh Gupta , Ali Farhadi , Abhinav Gupta

Large-scale video generative models have recently demonstrated strong visual capabilities, enabling the prediction of future frames that adhere to the logical and physical cues in the current observation. In this work, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Motion tracking has been an important technique for imitating human-like movement from large-scale datasets in physics-based motion synthesis. However, existing approaches focus on tracking either single character or a particular type of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xiaotang Zhang , Ziyi Chang , Qianhui Men , Hubert P. H. Shum

This work focuses on generating realistic, physically-based human behaviors from multi-modal inputs, which may only partially specify the desired motion. For example, the input may come from a VR controller providing arm motion and body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aayam Shrestha , Pan Liu , German Ros , Kai Yuan , Alan Fern

Complex, multi-task problems have proven to be difficult to solve efficiently in a sparse-reward reinforcement learning setting. In order to be sample efficient, multi-task learning requires reuse and sharing of low-level policies. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Valerie Chen , Abhinav Gupta , Kenneth Marino

We present a probabilistic framework to generate character animations based on weak control signals, such that the synthesized motions are realistic while retaining the stochastic nature of human movement. The proposed architecture, which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Saeed Ghorbani , Calden Wloka , Ali Etemad , Marcus A. Brubaker , Nikolaus F. Troje