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Synthesizing graceful and life-like behaviors for physically simulated characters has been a fundamental challenge in computer animation. Data-driven methods that leverage motion tracking are a prominent class of techniques for producing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Xue Bin Peng , Ze Ma , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Angjoo Kanazawa

Attributes such as style, fine-grained text, and trajectory are specific conditions for describing motion. However, existing methods often lack precise user control over motion attributes and suffer from limited generalizability to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mingjie Wei , Xuemei Xie , Guangming Shi

Human motion generation, a cornerstone technique in animation and video production, has widespread applications in various tasks like text-to-motion and music-to-dance. Previous works focus on developing specialist models tailored for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mingyuan Zhang , Daisheng Jin , Chenyang Gu , Fangzhou Hong , Zhongang Cai , Jingfang Huang , Chongzhi Zhang , Xinying Guo , Lei Yang , Ying He , Ziwei Liu

We introduce a method to synthesize animator guided human motion across 3D scenes. Given a set of sparse (3 or 4) joint locations (such as the location of a person's hand and two feet) and a seed motion sequence in a 3D scene, our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Aymen Mir , Xavier Puig , Angjoo Kanazawa , Gerard Pons-Moll

Current motion-controlled image-to-video generation models rigidly follow user-provided trajectories that are often sparse, imprecise, and causally incomplete. Such reliance often yields unnatural or implausible outcomes, especially by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lee Hsin-Ying , Hanwen Jiang , Yiqun Mei , Jing Shi , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhixin Shu

Our paper aims to generate diverse and realistic animal motion sequences from textual descriptions, without a large-scale animal text-motion dataset. While the task of text-driven human motion synthesis is already extensively studied and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Zhangsihao Yang , Mingyuan Zhou , Mengyi Shan , Bingbing Wen , Ziwei Xuan , Mitch Hill , Junjie Bai , Guo-Jun Qi , Yalin Wang

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

This paper presents a novel method to generate spatial constraints for motion planning in dynamic environments. Motion planning methods for autonomous driving and mobile robots typically need to rely on the spatial constraints imposed by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Han Hu , Peyman Yadmellat

Recent progress in stochastic motion prediction, i.e., predicting multiple possible future human motions given a single past pose sequence, has led to producing truly diverse future motions and even providing control over the motion of some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann

Text-conditioned motion synthesis has made remarkable progress with the emergence of diffusion models. However, the majority of these motion diffusion models are primarily designed for a single character and overlook multi-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhenzhi Wang , Jingbo Wang , Yixuan Li , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

In robotic deformable object manipulation (DOM) applications, constraints arise commonly from environments and task-specific requirements. Enabling DOM with constraints is therefore crucial for its deployment in practice. However, dealing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jing Huang , Xiangyu Chu , Xin Ma , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

The development of robot control programs is a complex task. Many robots are different in their electrical and mechanical structure which is also reflected in the software. Specific robot software environments support the program…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michael Reckhaus , Nico Hochgeschwender , Paul G. Ploeger , Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar

In recent years, there has been significant interest in creating 3D avatars and motions, driven by their diverse applications in areas like film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. However, current efforts primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zeyu Zhang , Yiran Wang , Biao Wu , Shuo Chen , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shiya Huang , Wenbo Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yang Zhao

The ability to generate complex and realistic human body animations at scale, while following specific artistic constraints, has been a fundamental goal for the game and animation industry for decades. Popular techniques include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Yi Zhou , Jingwan Lu , Connelly Barnes , Jimei Yang , Sitao Xiang , Hao li

The field has made significant progress in synthesizing realistic human motion driven by various modalities. Yet, the need for different methods to animate various body parts according to different control signals limits the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zixiang Zhou , Yu Wan , Baoyuan Wang

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

The field of video generation has expanded significantly in recent years, with controllable and compositional video generation garnering considerable interest. Most methods rely on leveraging annotations such as text, objects' bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Aram Davtyan , Sepehr Sameni , Björn Ommer , Paolo Favaro

Collision-free motion generation in unknown environments is a core building block for robot manipulation. Generating such motions is challenging due to multiple objectives; not only should the solutions be optimal, the motion generator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Adam Fishman , Adithyavairan Murali , Clemens Eppner , Bryan Peele , Byron Boots , Dieter Fox

Recent advances in generative modeling have led to promising progress on synthesizing 3D human motion from text, with methods that can generate character animations from short prompts and specified durations. However, using a single text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Mathis Petrovich , Or Litany , Umar Iqbal , Michael J. Black , Gül Varol , Xue Bin Peng , Davis Rempe

Generative control policies have recently unlocked major progress in robotics. These methods produce action sequences via diffusion or flow matching, with training data provided by demonstrations. But existing methods come with two key…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Vince Kurtz , Joel W. Burdick