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Physics-based character animation has become a fundamental approach for synthesizing realistic, physically plausible motions. While current data-driven deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods can synthesize complex skills, they struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhiquan Wang , Bedrich Benes

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

Text-to-motion generation has gained increasing attention, but most existing methods are limited to generating short-term motions that correspond to a single sentence describing a single action. However, when a text stream describes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhao Yang , Bing Su , Ji-Rong Wen

Motions are reflected in videos as the movement of pixels, and actions are essentially patterns of inconsistent motions between the foreground and the background. To well distinguish the actions, especially those with complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Ziyuan Huang , Shiwei Zhang , Jianwen Jiang , Mingqian Tang , Rong Jin , Marcelo Ang

Motion synthesis for diverse object categories holds great potential for 3D content creation but remains underexplored due to two key challenges: (1) the lack of comprehensive motion datasets that include a wide range of high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Wonkwang Lee , Jongwon Jeong , Taehong Moon , Hyeon-Jong Kim , Jaehyeon Kim , Gunhee Kim , Byeong-Uk Lee

Round-the-clock monitoring of human behavior and emotions is required in many healthcare applications which is very expensive but can be automated using machine learning (ML) and sensor technologies. Unfortunately, the lack of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Bonny Banerjee , Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali , Murchana Baruah , Mousumi Deb , Kenneth Sakauye , Mette Olufsen

Human motion generation involves creating natural sequences of human body poses, widely used in gaming, virtual reality, and human-computer interaction. It aims to produce lifelike virtual characters with realistic movements, enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiayi Zhao , Dongdong Weng , Qiuxin Du , Zeyu Tian

We pose a new problem, In-2-4D, for generative 4D (i.e., 3D + motion) inbetweening to interpolate two single-view images. In contrast to video/4D generation from only text or a single image, our interpolative task can leverage more precise…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sauradip Nag , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hao Zhang , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

Text-conditioned video diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool in the realm of video generation and editing. But their ability to capture the nuances of human movement remains under-explored. Indeed the ability of these models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Paul Janson , Tiberiu Popa , Eugene Belilovsky

Generating and representing human behavior are of major importance for various computer vision applications. Commonly, human video synthesis represents behavior as sequences of postures while directly predicting their likely progressions or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Andreas Blattmann , Timo Milbich , Michael Dorkenwald , Björn Ommer

How to learn discriminative video representation from unlabeled videos is challenging but crucial for video analysis. The latest attempts seek to learn a representation model by predicting the appearance contents in the masked regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Liangwei Chen , Changhao Li , Thomas H. Li , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Image animation is the task of transferring the motion of a driving video to a given object in a source image. While great progress has recently been made in unsupervised motion transfer, requiring no labeled data or domain priors, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Peirong Liu , Rui Wang , Xuefei Cao , Yipin Zhou , Ashish Shah , Ser-Nam Lim

Motion style transfer is a common method for enriching character animation. Motion style transfer algorithms are often designed for offline settings where motions are processed in segments. However, for online animation applications, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Tianxin Tao , Xiaohang Zhan , Zhongquan Chen , Michiel van de Panne

Human motion naturally integrates body movements and facial expressions, forming a unified perception. If a virtual character's facial expression does not align well with its body movements, it may weaken the perception of the character as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Bokyung Jang , Eunho Jung , Yoonsang Lee

The synthesis of human motion has traditionally been addressed through task-dependent models that focus on specific challenges, such as predicting future motions or filling in intermediate poses conditioned on known key-poses. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Esteve Valls Mascaro , Hyemin Ahn , Dongheui Lee

Audio-driven talking-head generation has advanced rapidly with diffusion-based generative models, yet producing temporally coherent videos with fine-grained motion control remains challenging. We propose DEMO, a flow-matching generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peiyin Chen , Zhuowei Yang , Hui Feng , Sheng Jiang , Rui Yan

The emergence of text-driven motion synthesis technique provides animators with great potential to create efficiently. However, in most cases, textual expressions only contain general and qualitative motion descriptions, while lack fine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dong Wei , Xiaoning Sun , Huaijiang Sun , Bin Li , Shengxiang Hu , Weiqing Li , Jianfeng Lu

Recent advances in generative models have yielded impressive progress on motion in-betweening, allowing for more complex, varied, and realistic motion transitions. However, recent methods still exhibit noticeable limitations in preserving…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Shiyu Fan , Paul Henderson , Edmond S. L. Ho

Animating stylized characters to match a reference motion sequence is a highly demanded task in film and gaming industries. Existing methods mostly focus on rigid deformations of characters' body, neglecting local deformations on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rong Wang , Wei Mao , Changsheng Lu , Hongdong Li

Human motion synthesis is a fundamental task in computer animation. Recent methods based on diffusion models or GPT structure demonstrate commendable performance but exhibit drawbacks in terms of slow sampling speeds and error accumulation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Vincent Tao Hu , Wenzhe Yin , Pingchuan Ma , Yunlu Chen , Basura Fernando , Yuki M Asano , Efstratios Gavves , Pascal Mettes , Bjorn Ommer , Cees G. M. Snoek