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Character animation in real-world scenarios necessitates a variety of constraints, such as trajectories, key-frames, interactions, etc. Existing methodologies typically treat single or a finite set of these constraint(s) as separate control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanchao Liu , Xiaohang Zhan , Shaoli Huang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ying Shan

Diffusion models have recently gained significant attention in robotics due to their ability to generate multi-modal distributions of system states and behaviors. However, a key challenge remains: ensuring precise control over the generated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luobin Wang , Hongzhan Yu , Chenning Yu , Sicun Gao , Henrik Christensen

Generating human videos with realistic and controllable motions is a challenging task. While existing methods can generate visually compelling videos, they lack separate control over four key video elements: foreground subject, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jingyun Liang , Jingkai Zhou , Shikai Li , Chenjie Cao , Lei Sun , Yichen Qian , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Diffusion models have experienced a surge of interest as highly expressive yet efficiently trainable probabilistic models. We show that these models are an excellent fit for synthesising human motion that co-occurs with audio, e.g., dancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Simon Alexanderson , Rajmund Nagy , Jonas Beskow , Gustav Eje Henter

Motion style transfer changes the style of a motion while retaining its content and is useful in computer animations and games. Contact is an essential component of motion style transfer that should be controlled explicitly in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiangjun Tang , Linjun Wu , He Wang , Yiqian Wu , Bo Hu , Songnan Li , Xu Gong , Yuchen Liao , Qilong Kou , Xiaogang Jin

Text-driven motion generation offers a powerful and intuitive way to create human movements directly from natural language. By removing the need for predefined motion inputs, it provides a flexible and accessible approach to controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Ali Rida Sahili , Najett Neji , Hedi Tabia

We propose a novel unsupervised method to autoregressively generate videos from a single frame and a sparse motion input. Our trained model can generate unseen realistic object-to-object interactions. Although our model has never been given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Aram Davtyan , Paolo Favaro

Synthesizing realistic human-object interaction motions is a critical problem in VR/AR and human animation. Unlike the commonly studied scenarios involving a single human or hand interacting with one object, we address a more generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Wenkun He , Yun Liu , Ruitao Liu , Li Yi

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

Controllable human image animation aims to generate videos from reference images using driving videos. Due to the limited control signals provided by sparse guidance (e.g., skeleton pose), recent works have attempted to introduce additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Hongxiang Li , Yaowei Li , Yuhang Yang , Junjie Cao , Zhihong Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Long Chen

By generating plausible and smooth transitions between two image frames, video inbetweening is an essential tool for video editing and long video synthesis. Traditional works lack the capability to generate complex large motions. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Maham Tanveer , Yang Zhou , Simon Niklaus , Ali Mahdavi Amiri , Hao Zhang , Krishna Kumar Singh , Nanxuan Zhao

This paper introduces Click to Move (C2M), a novel framework for video generation where the user can control the motion of the synthesized video through mouse clicks specifying simple object trajectories of the key objects in the scene. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Pierfrancesco Ardino , Marco De Nadai , Bruno Lepri , Elisa Ricci , Stéphane Lathuilière

Text-to-motion synthesis is a crucial task in computer vision. Existing methods are limited in their universality, as they are tailored for single-person or two-person scenarios and can not be applied to generate motions for more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ke Fan , Junshu Tang , Weijian Cao , Ran Yi , Moran Li , Jingyu Gong , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Hands are central to interacting with our surroundings and conveying gestures, making their inclusion essential for full-body motion synthesis. Despite this, existing human motion synthesis methods fall short: some ignore hand motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Enes Duran , Nikos Athanasiou , Muhammed Kocabas , Michael J. Black , Omid Taheri

Generative modeling of human motion has broad applications in computer animation, virtual reality, and robotics. Conventional approaches develop separate models for different motion synthesis tasks, and typically use a model of a small size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jianxin Ma , Shuai Bai , Chang Zhou

Motion in-betweening, a fundamental task in character animation, consists of generating motion sequences that plausibly interpolate user-provided keyframe constraints. It has long been recognized as a labor-intensive and challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Setareh Cohan , Guy Tevet , Daniele Reda , Xue Bin Peng , Michiel van de Panne

Character video synthesis aims to produce realistic videos of animatable characters within lifelike scenes. As a fundamental problem in the computer vision and graphics community, 3D works typically require multi-view captures for per-case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yifang Men , Yuan Yao , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo

The target duration of a synthesized human motion is a critical attribute that requires modeling control over the motion dynamics and style. Speeding up an action performance is not merely fast-forwarding it. However, state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Alessio Sampieri , Alessio Palma , Indro Spinelli , Fabio Galasso

Can we make virtual characters in a scene interact with their surrounding objects through simple instructions? Is it possible to synthesize such motion plausibly with a diverse set of objects and instructions? Inspired by these questions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Anindita Ghosh , Rishabh Dabral , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Motion-based controllable video generation offers the potential for creating captivating visual content. Existing methods typically necessitate model training to encode particular motion cues or incorporate fine-tuning to inject certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Pengyang Ling , Jiazi Bu , Pan Zhang , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Tong Wu , Huaian Chen , Jiaqi Wang , Yi Jin