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Human motion generation has been widely studied due to its crucial role in areas such as digital humans and humanoid robot control. However, many current motion generation approaches disregard physics constraints, frequently resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zhuo Li , Mingshuang Luo , Ruibing Hou , Xin Zhao , Hao Liu , Hong Chang , Zimo Liu , Chen Li

Transferring human motion from a source to a target person poses great potential in computer vision and graphics applications. A crucial step is to manipulate sequential future motion while retaining the appearance characteristic.Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Bowen Wu , Zhenyu Xie , Xiaodan Liang , Yubei Xiao , Haoye Dong , Liang Lin

Acting, stand-up and dancing are creative, embodied performances that nonetheless follow a script. Unless experimental or improvised, the performers draw their movements from much the same stock of embodied schemas. A slavish following of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Philipp Wicke , Tony Veale

Learning to represent and generate videos from unlabeled data is a very challenging problem. To generate realistic videos, it is important not only to ensure that the appearance of each frame is real, but also to ensure the plausibility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Katsunori Ohnishi , Shohei Yamamoto , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Agents that can learn to imitate given video observation -- \emph{without direct access to state or action information} are more applicable to learning in the natural world. However, formulating a reinforcement learning (RL) agent that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Glen Berseth , Florian Golemo , Christopher Pal

Human motion generation aims to generate natural human pose sequences and shows immense potential for real-world applications. Substantial progress has been made recently in motion data collection technologies and generation methods, laying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Dongwoo Ro , Hai Ci , Jinlu Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

Human activity videos involve rich, varied interactions between people and objects. In this paper we develop methods for generating such videos -- making progress toward addressing the important, open problem of video generation in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Megha Nawhal , Mengyao Zhai , Andreas Lehrmann , Leonid Sigal , Greg Mori

With the popularity of video-based user-generated content (UGC) on social media, harmony, as dictated by human perceptual principles, is critical in assessing the rhythmic consistency of audio-visual UGCs for better user engagement. In this…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xinyi Wu , Haohong Wang , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Recent video diffusion models can synthesize visually compelling clips, yet often violate basic physical laws-objects float, accelerations drift, and collisions behave inconsistently-revealing a persistent gap between visual realism and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Minh-Quan Le , Yuanzhi Zhu , Vicky Kalogeiton , Dimitris Samaras

In this paper, we find that the generation of 3D human motions and 2D human videos is intrinsically coupled. 3D motions provide the structural prior for plausibility and consistency in videos, while pre-trained video models offer strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chengfeng Zhao , Jiazhi Shu , Yubo Zhao , Tianyu Huang , Jiahao Lu , Zekai Gu , Chengwei Ren , Zhiyang Dou , Qing Shuai , Yuan Liu

Video generation models are rapidly improving in their ability to synthesize human actions in novel contexts, holding the potential to serve as high-level planners for contextual robot control. To realize this potential, a key research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 James Ni , Zekai Wang , Wei Lin , Amir Bar , Yann LeCun , Trevor Darrell , Jitendra Malik , Roei Herzig

What we appreciate in dance is the ability of people to sponta- neously improvise new movements and choreographies, sur- rendering to the music rhythm, being inspired by the cur- rent perceptions and sensations and by previous experiences,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Agnese Augello , Emanuele Cipolla , Ignazio Infantino , Adriano Manfre , Giovanni Pilato , Filippo Vella

In order to be effective teammates, robots need to be able to understand high-level human behavior to recognize, anticipate, and adapt to human motion. We have designed a new approach to enable robots to perceive human group motion in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tariq Iqbal , Samantha Rack , Laurel D. Riek

Dance and music typically go hand in hand. The complexities in dance, music, and their synchronisation make them fascinating to study from a computational creativity perspective. While several works have looked at generating dance for a…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Gunjan Aggarwal , Devi Parikh

In this paper, we present DreaMoving, a diffusion-based controllable video generation framework to produce high-quality customized human videos. Specifically, given target identity and posture sequences, DreaMoving can generate a video of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengyang Feng , Jinlin Liu , Kai Yu , Yuan Yao , Zheng Hui , Xiefan Guo , Xianhui Lin , Haolan Xue , Chen Shi , Xiaowen Li , Aojie Li , Xiaoyang Kang , Biwen Lei , Miaomiao Cui , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie

3D Human motion generation is pivotal across film, animation, gaming, and embodied intelligence. Traditional 3D motion synthesis relies on costly motion capture, while recent work shows that 2D videos provide rich, temporally coherent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yi-Yang Zhang , Tengjiao Sun , Pengcheng Fang , Deng-Bao Wang , Xiaohao Cai , Min-Ling Zhang , Hansung Kim

Learning behavior in legged robots presents a significant challenge due to its inherent instability and complex constraints. Recent research has proposed the use of a large language model (LLM) to generate reward functions in reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Runhao Zeng , Dingjie Zhou , Qiwei Liang , Junlin Liu , Hui Li , Changxin Huang , Jianqiang Li , Xiping Hu , Fuchun Sun

Generating coherent and diverse human dances from music signals has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While existing methods support direct dance synthesis, they fail to recognize that enabling users to edit dance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Hengyuan Zhang , Zhe Li , Xingqun Qi , Mengze Li , Muyi Sun , Man Zhang , Sirui Han

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,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Peide Huang , Yuhan Hu , Nataliya Nechyporenko , Daehwa Kim , Walter Talbott , Jian Zhang

Real-time synthesis of physically plausible human interactions remains a critical challenge for immersive VR/AR systems and humanoid robotics. While existing methods demonstrate progress in kinematic motion generation, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kaiyang Ji , Ye Shi , Zichen Jin , Kangyi Chen , Lan Xu , Yuexin Ma , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang