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High-quality human motion data is becoming increasingly important for applications in robotics, simulation, and entertainment. Recent generative models offer a potential data source, enabling human motion synthesis through intuitive inputs…

Text-based motion generation models are drawing a surge of interest for their potential for automating the motion-making process in the game, animation, or robot industries. In this paper, we propose a diffusion-based motion synthesis and…

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Generating realistic motions for digital humans is time-consuming for many graphics applications. Data-driven motion synthesis approaches have seen solid progress in recent years through deep generative models. These results offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Edmund J. C. Findlay , Haozheng Zhang , Ziyi Chang , Hubert P. H. Shum

The emergence of diffusion models has greatly propelled the progress in image and video generation. Recently, some efforts have been made in controllable video generation, including text-to-video generation and video motion control, among…

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While recent video generation models have achieved significant visual fidelity, they often suffer from the lack of explicit physical controllability and plausibility. To address this, some recent studies attempted to guide the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haoze Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Zichen Wan , Xiaowei Jin , Hongzhi Zhang , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

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

Existing techniques for motion imitation often suffer a certain level of latency due to their computational overhead or a large set of correspondence samples to search. To achieve real-time imitation with small latency, we present a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Shuo Jin , Chengkai Dai , Yang Liu , Charlie C. L. Wang

We present GenMM, a generative model that "mines" as many diverse motions as possible from a single or few example sequences. In stark contrast to existing data-driven methods, which typically require long offline training time, are prone…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Weiyu Li , Xuelin Chen , Peizhuo Li , Olga Sorkine-Hornung , Baoquan Chen

In the realm of motion generation, the creation of long-duration, high-quality motion sequences remains a significant challenge. This paper presents our groundbreaking work on "Infinite Motion", a novel approach that leverages long text to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Mengtian Li , Chengshuo Zhai , Shengxiang Yao , Zhifeng Xie , Keyu Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Embodied trajectories, such as the executable motion sequences of robotic manipulators, underwater vehicles, and mobile robots, are a fundamental output of embodied AI. Modern generative models often treat them as a dense, monolithic signal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yan Tang , Yuanbo Tang , Tingyu Cao , Shaolun Huang , Yang Li

Generating physically plausible human motion is crucial for applications such as character animation and virtual reality. Existing approaches often incorporate a simulator-based motion projection layer to the diffusion process to enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Akihisa Watanabe , Jiawei Ren , Li Siyao , Yichen Peng , Erwin Wu , Edgar Simo-Serra

Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Guian Fang , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

Diffusion-based video generation can create realistic videos, yet existing image- and text-based conditioning fails to offer precise motion control. Prior methods for motion-conditioned synthesis typically require model-specific…

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We present a neural network-based system for long-term, multi-action human motion synthesis. The system, dubbed as NEURAL MARIONETTE, can produce high-quality and meaningful motions with smooth transitions from simple user input, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Weiqiang Wang , Xuefei Zhe , Qiuhong Ke , Di Kang , Tingguang Li , Ruizhi Chen , Linchao Bao

Controllable human motion synthesis is essential for applications in AR/VR, gaming and embodied AI. Existing methods often focus solely on either language or full trajectory control, lacking precision in synthesizing motions aligned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Weilin Wan , Zhiyang Dou , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Dinesh Jayaraman , Lingjie Liu

We propose a novel framework to produce cartoon videos by fetching the color information from two input keyframes while following the animated motion guided by a user sketch. The key idea of the proposed approach is to estimate the dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Jing Liao , Pedro V. Sander

Recent advancements in personalized Text-to-Video (T2V) generation have made significant strides in synthesizing character-specific content. However, these methods face a critical limitation: the inability to perform fine-grained control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Haopeng Fang , Di Qiu , Binjie Mao , He Tang

Controllable speech synthesis aims to control the style of generated speech using reference input, which can be of various modalities. Existing face-based methods struggle with robustness and generalization due to data quality constraints,…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Rui Niu , Weihao Wu , Jie Chen , Long Ma , Zhiyong Wu

The gradual nature of a diffusion process that synthesizes samples in small increments constitutes a key ingredient of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM), which have presented unprecedented quality in image synthesis and been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Zihan Zhang , Richard Liu , Kfir Aberman , Rana Hanocka

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

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