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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

In this work we present a novel, robust transition generation technique that can serve as a new tool for 3D animators, based on adversarial recurrent neural networks. The system synthesizes high-quality motions that use temporally-sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Félix G. Harvey , Mike Yurick , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

Motion in-betweening is a crucial tool for animators, enabling intricate control over pose-level details in each keyframe. Recent machine learning solutions for motion in-betweening rely on complex models, incorporating skeleton-aware…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Elly Akhoundi , Hung Yu Ling , Anup Anand Deshmukh , Judith Butepage

Match-cuts are powerful cinematic tools that create seamless transitions between scenes, delivering strong visual and metaphorical connections. However, crafting match-cuts is a challenging, resource-intensive process requiring deliberate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alejandro Pardo , Fabio Pizzati , Tong Zhang , Alexander Pondaven , Philip Torr , Juan Camilo Perez , Bernard Ghanem

We present a new method for text-driven motion transfer - synthesizing a video that complies with an input text prompt describing the target objects and scene while maintaining an input video's motion and scene layout. Prior methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Danah Yatim , Rafail Fridman , Omer Bar-Tal , Yoni Kasten , Tali Dekel

Current learning-based subject customization approaches, predominantly relying on U-Net architectures, suffer from limited generalization ability and compromised image quality. Meanwhile, optimization-based methods require subject-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jiale Tao , Yanbing Zhang , Qixun Wang , Yiji Cheng , Haofan Wang , Xu Bai , Zhengguang Zhou , Ruihuang Li , Linqing Wang , Chunyu Wang , Qin Lin , Qinglin Lu

The essence of a video lies in its dynamic motions, including character actions, object movements, and camera movements. While text-to-video generative diffusion models have recently advanced in creating diverse contents, controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yuxin Zhang , Fan Tang , Nisha Huang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Weiming Dong , Changsheng Xu

Previous motion generation methods are limited to the pre-rigged 3D human model, hindering their applications in the animation of various non-rigged characters. In this work, we present TapMo, a Text-driven Animation Pipeline for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jiaxu Zhang , Shaoli Huang , Zhigang Tu , Xin Chen , Xiaohang Zhan , Gang Yu , Ying Shan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jihoon Kim , Jiseob Kim , Sungjoon Choi

Synthesizing natural human motion that adapts to complex environments while allowing creative control remains a fundamental challenge in motion synthesis. Existing models often fall short, either by assuming flat terrain or lacking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xiaohan Zhang , Sebastian Starke , Vladimir Guzov , Zhensong Zhang , Eduardo Pérez Pellitero , Gerard Pons-Moll

Generating natural and physically plausible character motion remains challenging, particularly for long-horizon control with diverse guidance signals. While prior work combines high-level diffusion-based motion planners with low-level…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yan Wu , Korrawe Karunratanakul , Zhengyi Luo , Siyu Tang

Animating virtual avatars to make co-speech gestures facilitates various applications in human-machine interaction. The existing methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks (GANs), which typically suffer from notorious mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Lingting Zhu , Xian Liu , Xuanyu Liu , Rui Qian , Ziwei Liu , Lequan Yu

When walking on loose terrains, possibly covered with vegetation, the ground and grass should deform, but the character's gait should also change accordingly. We propose a method for modeling such two-ways interactions in real-time. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chloé Paliard , Eduardo Alvarado , Damien Rohmer , Marie-Paule Cani

Denoising diffusion models have shown great promise in human motion synthesis conditioned on natural language descriptions. However, integrating spatial constraints, such as pre-defined motion trajectories and obstacles, remains a challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Korrawe Karunratanakul , Konpat Preechakul , Supasorn Suwajanakorn , Siyu Tang

Recently, skeleton-based human action has become a hot research topic because the compact representation of human skeletons brings new blood to this research domain. As a result, researchers began to notice the importance of using RGB or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yifan Jiang , Han Chen , Hanseok Ko

Recent advances in generative motion synthesis have enabled the production of realistic human motions from diverse input modalities. However, synthesizing compound actions from texts, which integrate multiple concurrent actions into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yue Jiang , Mingyu Yang , Liuyuxin Yang , Yang Xu , Bingxin Yun , Yuhe Zhang

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

Co-speech gestures, if presented in the lively form of videos, can achieve superior visual effects in human-machine interaction. While previous works mostly generate structural human skeletons, resulting in the omission of appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xu He , Qiaochu Huang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Sicheng Yang , Minglei Li , Zhiyi Chen , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu

Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

Training a generative model on a single human skeletal motion sequence without being bound to a specific kinematic tree has drawn significant attention from the animation community. Unlike text-to-motion generation, single-shot models allow…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Eleni Tselepi , Spyridon Thermos , Gerasimos Potamianos