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This paper presents a novel method for generating diverse 3D human poses in scenes with semantic control. Existing methods heavily rely on the human-scene interaction dataset, resulting in a limited diversity of the generated human poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Bowen Dang , Xi Zhao

Human motion synthesis is an important problem with applications in graphics, gaming and simulation environments for robotics. Existing methods require accurate motion capture data for training, which is costly to obtain. Instead, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kevin Xie , Tingwu Wang , Umar Iqbal , Yunrong Guo , Sanja Fidler , Florian Shkurti

Generating 3D humans that functionally interact with 3D scenes remains an open problem with applications in embodied AI, robotics, and interactive content creation. The key challenge involves reasoning about both the semantics of functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jie Liu , Yu Sun , Alpar Cseke , Yao Feng , Nicolas Heron , Michael J. Black , Yan Zhang

This report reviews recent advancements in human motion prediction, reconstruction, and generation. Human motion prediction focuses on forecasting future poses and movements from historical data, addressing challenges like nonlinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Canxuan Gang , Yiran Wang

Human motion generation has made tremendous progress in recent years, with state-of-the-art approaches surpassing ground truth data in leading evaluation benchmarks. However, visual inspection of the generated motions paints a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pascal Herrmann , Maarten Bieshaar , Dennis Mack , Robert Herzog , Juergen Gall

With the recent success of deep learning algorithms, many researchers have focused on generative models for human motion animation. However, the research community lacks a platform for training and benchmarking various algorithms, and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yizhou Zhao , Wensi Ai , Liang Qiu , Pan Lu , Feng Shi , Tian Han , Song-Chun Zhu

Generating diverse and natural human motion is one of the long-standing goals for creating intelligent characters in the animated world. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised method for generating long-range, diverse and plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jingwei Xu , Huazhe Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Human motion synthesis in 3D scenes relies heavily on scene comprehension, while current methods focus mainly on scene structure but ignore the semantic understanding. In this paper, we propose a human motion synthesis framework that take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gong Jingyu , Tong Kunkun , Chen Zhuoran , Yuan Chuanhan , Chen Mingang , Zhang Zhizhong , Tan Xin , Xie Yuan

In this paper, we address the challenge of generating realistic 3D human motions for action classes that were never seen during the training phase. Our approach involves decomposing complex actions into simpler movements, specifically those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Lorenzo Mandelli , Stefano Berretti

"How can we animate 3D-characters from a movie script or move robots by simply telling them what we would like them to do?" "How unstructured and complex can we make a sentence and still generate plausible movements from it?" These are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Anindita Ghosh , Noshaba Cheema , Cennet Oguz , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Generating natural human motion from a story has the potential to transform the landscape of animation, gaming, and film industries. A new and challenging task, Story-to-Motion, arises when characters are required to move to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhongfei Qing , Zhongang Cai , Zhitao Yang , Lei Yang

Real-time in-between motion generation is universally required in games and highly desirable in existing animation pipelines. Its core challenge lies in the need to satisfy three critical conditions simultaneously: quality, controllability…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Xiangjun Tang , He Wang , Bo Hu , Xu Gong , Ruifan Yi , Qilong Kou , Xiaogang Jin

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

Movement is how people interact with and affect their environment. For realistic character animation, it is necessary to synthesize such interactions between virtual characters and their surroundings. Despite recent progress in character…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Mohamed Hassan , Yunrong Guo , Tingwu Wang , Michael Black , Sanja Fidler , Xue Bin Peng

Human motion generation has shown great advances thanks to the recent diffusion models trained on large-scale motion capture data. Most of existing works, however, currently target animation of isolated people in empty scenes. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yangsong Zhang , Abdul Ahad Butt , Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev

Lightweight, controllable, and physically plausible human motion synthesis is crucial for animation, virtual reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction applications. Existing methods often compromise between computational efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Arvin Tashakori , Arash Tashakori , Gongbo Yang , Z. Jane Wang , Peyman Servati

The objective of the multi-condition human motion synthesis task is to incorporate diverse conditional inputs, encompassing various forms like text, music, speech, and more. This endows the task with the capability to adapt across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zeyu Ling , Bo Han , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kangkanhalli , Weidong Geng

Text-driven controllable dance generation remains under-explored, primarily due to the severe scarcity of high-quality datasets and the inherent difficulty of articulating complex choreographies. Characterizing dance is particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hang Yuan , Xiaolin Hu , Yan Wan , Menglin Gao , Wenzhe Yu , Cong Huang , Fei Xu , Qing Li , Christina Dan Wang , Zhou Yu , Kai Chen

Scenes are continuously undergoing dynamic changes in the real world. However, existing human-scene interaction generation methods typically treat the scene as static, which deviates from reality. Inspired by world models, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yin Wang , Zhiying Leng , Haitian Liu , Frederick W. B. Li , Mu Li , Xiaohui Liang

We introduce Unimotion, the first unified multi-task human motion model capable of both flexible motion control and frame-level motion understanding. While existing works control avatar motion with global text conditioning, or with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chuqiao Li , Julian Chibane , Yannan He , Naama Pearl , Andreas Geiger , Gerard Pons-moll