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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

Generating 3D dances from music is an emerged research task that benefits a lot of applications in vision and graphics. Previous works treat this task as sequence generation, however, it is challenging to render a music-aligned long-term…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Buyu Li , Yongchi Zhao , Zhelun Shi , Lu Sheng

Music-to-dance generation aims to translate auditory signals into expressive human motion, with broad applications in virtual reality, choreography, and digital entertainment. Despite promising progress, the limited generation efficiency of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Kaixing Yang , Xulong Tang , Ziqiao Peng , Xiangyue Zhang , Puwei Wang , Jun He , Hongyan Liu

We present the Melody-Guided Music Generation (MG2) model, a novel approach using melody to guide the text-to-music generation that, despite a simple method and limited resources, achieves excellent performance. Specifically, we first align…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaopeng Wei , Manzhen Wei , Haoyu Wang , Yu Zhao , Gang Kou

Music-driven dance generation has garnered significant attention due to its wide range of industrial applications, particularly in the creation of group choreography. During the group dance generation process, however, most existing methods…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yuqin Dai , Wanlu Zhu , Ronghui Li , Xiu Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Li , Jian Yang

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

Dance serves as a powerful medium for expressing human emotions, but the lifelike generation of dance is still a considerable challenge. Recently, diffusion models have showcased remarkable generative abilities across various domains. They…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Canyu Zhang , Youbao Tang , Ning Zhang , Ruei-Sung Lin , Mei Han , Jing Xiao , Song Wang

In this paper, we introduce a MusIc conditioned 3D Dance GEneraTion model, named MIDGET based on Dance motion Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) model and Motion Generative Pre-Training (GPT) model to generate vibrant and…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jinwu Wang , Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu

Dance-to-music (D2M) generation aims to automatically compose music that is rhythmically and temporally aligned with dance movements. Existing methods typically rely on coarse rhythm embeddings, such as global motion features or binarized…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jinting Wang , Chenxing Li , Li Liu

We introduce Multimodal DuetDance (MDD), a diverse multimodal benchmark dataset designed for text-controlled and music-conditioned 3D duet dance motion generation. Our dataset comprises 620 minutes of high-quality motion capture data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Prerit Gupta , Jason Alexander Fotso-Puepi , Zhengyuan Li , Jay Mehta , Aniket Bera

Text-to-music generation models are now capable of generating high-quality music audio in broad styles. However, text control is primarily suitable for the manipulation of global musical attributes like genre, mood, and tempo, and is less…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shih-Lun Wu , Chris Donahue , Shinji Watanabe , Nicholas J. Bryan

Dance-to-music generation aims to generate music that is aligned with dance movements. Existing approaches typically rely on body motion features extracted from a single human dancer and limited dance-to-music datasets, which restrict their…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jaekwon Im , Natalia Polouliakh , Taketo Akama

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

Well-coordinated, music-aligned holistic dance enhances emotional expressiveness and audience engagement. However, generating such dances remains challenging due to the scarcity of holistic 3D dance datasets, the difficulty of achieving…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xiaojie Li , Ronghui Li , Shukai Fang , Shuzhao Xie , Xiaoyang Guo , Jiaqing Zhou , Junkun Peng , Zhi Wang

Dance typically involves professional choreography with complex movements that follow a musical rhythm and can also be influenced by lyrical content. The integration of lyrics in addition to the auditory dimension, enriches the foundational…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Wenjie Yin , Xuejiao Zhao , Yi Yu , Hang Yin , Danica Kragic , Mårten Björkman

Dance, as an art form, fundamentally hinges on the precise synchronization with musical beats. However, achieving aesthetically pleasing dance sequences from music is challenging, with existing methods often falling short in controllability…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zikai Huang , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Huaidong Zhang , Chenxi Zheng , Jing Qin , Shengfeng He

Human motion generation is a significant pursuit in generative computer vision with widespread applications in film-making, video games, AR/VR, and human-robot interaction. Current methods mainly utilize either diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Canxuan Gang

With the rise of online dance-video platforms and rapid advances in AI-generated content (AIGC), music-driven dance generation has emerged as a compelling research direction. Despite substantial progress in related domains such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kaixing Yang , Jiashu Zhu , Xulong Tang , Ziqiao Peng , Xiangyue Zhang , Puwei Wang , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Dance requires skillful composition of complex movements that follow rhythmic, tonal and timbral features of music. Formally, generating dance conditioned on a piece of music can be expressed as a problem of modelling a high-dimensional…

Music-to-dance generation represents a challenging yet pivotal task at the intersection of choreography, virtual reality, and creative content generation. Despite its significance, existing methods face substantial limitation in achieving…