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The field has made significant progress in synthesizing realistic human motion driven by various modalities. Yet, the need for different methods to animate various body parts according to different control signals limits the scalability of…

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Human locomotion emerges from high-dimensional neuromuscular control, making predictive musculoskeletal simulation challenging. We present a physiology-informed reinforcement-learning framework that constrains control using muscle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ilseung Park , Eunsik Choi , Jangwhan Ahn , Jooeun Ahn

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

Posture control and balance are basic requirements for a humanoid robot performing motor tasks like walking and interacting with the environment. For this reason, posture control is one of the elements taken into account when evaluating the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Vittorio Lippi , Christoph Maurer , Thomas Mergner

Existing human Motion Capture (MoCap) methods mostly focus on the visual similarity while neglecting the physical plausibility. As a result, downstream tasks such as driving virtual human in 3D scene or humanoid robots in real world suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shenghao Ren , Yi Lu , Jiayi Huang , Jiayi Zhao , He Zhang , Tao Yu , Qiu Shen , Xun Cao

Recent trends in humanoid robot control have successfully employed imitation learning to enable the learned generation of smooth, human-like trajectories from human data. While these approaches make more realistic motions possible, they are…

Reducing the complexity of higher order problems can enable solving them in analytical ways. In this paper, we propose an analytic whole body motion generator for humanoid robots. Our approach targets inexpensive platforms that possess…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Grzegorz Ficht , Sven Behnke

In this paper, we present a novel nonparametric motion flow model that effectively describes a motion trajectory of a human and its application to human robot cooperation. To this end, motion flow similarity measure which considers both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Sungjoon Choi , Kyungjae Lee , H. Andy Park , Songhwai Oh

We present a unified perspective on tackling various human-centric video tasks by learning human motion representations from large-scale and heterogeneous data resources. Specifically, we propose a pretraining stage in which a motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Zhaoyang Liu , Libin Liu , Wayne Wu , Yizhou Wang

Distilling knowledge from human demonstrations is a promising way for robots to learn and act. Existing methods, which often rely on coarsely-aligned video pairs, are typically constrained to learning global or task-level features. As a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sicheng Xie , Haidong Cao , Zejia Weng , Zhen Xing , Haoran Chen , Shiwei Shen , Jiaqi Leng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Learning a general humanoid whole-body controller is challenging because practical reference motions can exhibit noise and inconsistencies after being transferred to the robot domain, and local defects may be amplified by closed-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yubiao Ma , Han Yu , Jiayin Xie , Changtai Lv , Qiang Luo , Chi Zhang , Yunpeng Yin , Boyang Xing , Xuemei Ren , Dongdong Zheng

We present a universal motion representation that encompasses a comprehensive range of motor skills for physics-based humanoid control. Due to the high dimensionality of humanoids and the inherent difficulties in reinforcement learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Zhengyi Luo , Jinkun Cao , Josh Merel , Alexander Winkler , Jing Huang , Kris Kitani , Weipeng Xu

Human motion video generation has garnered significant research interest due to its broad applications, enabling innovations such as photorealistic singing heads or dynamic avatars that seamlessly dance to music. However, existing surveys…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Haiwei Xue , Xiangyang Luo , Zhanghao Hu , Xin Zhang , Xunzhi Xiang , Yuqin Dai , Jianzhuang Liu , Zhensong Zhang , Minglei Li , Jian Yang , Fei Ma , Zhiyong Wu , Changpeng Yang , Zonghong Dai , Fei Richard Yu

Enabling virtual humans to dynamically and realistically respond to diverse auditory stimuli remains a key challenge in character animation, demanding the integration of perceptual modeling and motion synthesis. Despite its significance,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shuyang Xu , Zhiyang Dou , Mingyi Shi , Liang Pan , Leo Ho , Jingbo Wang , Yuan Liu , Cheng Lin , Yuexin Ma , Wenping Wang , Taku Komura

Human motion generation aims to generate natural human pose sequences and shows immense potential for real-world applications. Substantial progress has been made recently in motion data collection technologies and generation methods, laying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Dongwoo Ro , Hai Ci , Jinlu Zhang , Jiaxin Shi , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

Remarkable strides have been made in reconstructing static scenes or human bodies from monocular videos. Yet, the two problems have largely been approached independently, without much synergy. Most visual SLAM methods can only reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yizhou Zhao , Tuanfeng Y. Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Min Xu , Jimei Yang , Chun-Hao Paul Huang

Despite their remarkable advancement in locomotion and manipulation, humanoid robots remain challenged by a lack of synchronized loco-manipulation control, hindering their full dynamic potential. In this work, we introduce a versatile and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Junheng Li , Junchao Ma , Omar Kolt , Manas Shah , Quan Nguyen

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

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

Recent works on dynamic 3D neural field reconstruction assume the input from synchronized multi-view videos whose poses are known. The input constraints are often not satisfied in real-world setups, making the approach impractical. We show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Changwoon Choi , Jeongjun Kim , Geonho Cha , Minkwan Kim , Dongyoon Wee , Young Min Kim