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Current approaches for 3D human motion synthesis generate high quality animations of digital humans performing a wide variety of actions and gestures. However, a notable technological gap exists in addressing the complex dynamics of multi…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Anindita Ghosh , Rishabh Dabral , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt , Philipp Slusallek

Generating natural human motion from a story has the potential to transform the landscape of animation, gaming, and film industries. A new and challenging task, Story-to-Motion, arises when characters are required to move to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhongfei Qing , Zhongang Cai , Zhitao Yang , Lei Yang

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

Generating diverse and natural human motion is one of the long-standing goals for creating intelligent characters in the animated world. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised method for generating long-range, diverse and plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jingwei Xu , Huazhe Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang , Xiaolong Wang , Trevor Darrell

Real-time character animation in dynamic environments requires the generation of plausible upper-body movements regardless of the nature of the environment, including non-rigid obstacles such as vegetation. We propose a flexible model for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Eduardo Alvarado , Damien Rohmer , Marie-Paule Cani

In-betweening is a technique for generating transitions given initial and target character states. The majority of existing works require multiple (often $>$10) frames as input, which are not always accessible. Our work deals with a focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Tianxiang Ren , Jubo Yu , Shihui Guo , Ying Ma , Yutao Ouyang , Zijiao Zeng , Yazhan Zhang , Yipeng Qin

Conventional methods for human motion synthesis are either deterministic or struggle with the trade-off between motion diversity and motion quality. In response to these limitations, we introduce MoFusion, i.e., a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Rishabh Dabral , Muhammad Hamza Mughal , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

Real-time synthesis of physically plausible human interactions remains a critical challenge for immersive VR/AR systems and humanoid robotics. While existing methods demonstrate progress in kinematic motion generation, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Kaiyang Ji , Ye Shi , Zichen Jin , Kangyi Chen , Lan Xu , Yuexin Ma , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang

The body movements accompanying speech aid speakers in expressing their ideas. Co-speech motion generation is one of the important approaches for synthesizing realistic avatars. Due to the intricate correspondence between speech and motion,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sen Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Xin Tan , Zhifeng Xie , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Synthesizing 3D human motion plays an important role in many graphics applications as well as understanding human activity. While many efforts have been made on generating realistic and natural human motion, most approaches neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jiashun Wang , Huazhe Xu , Jingwei Xu , Sifei Liu , Xiaolong Wang

Remote telepresence via next-generation mixed reality platforms can provide higher levels of immersion for computer-mediated communications, allowing participants to engage in a wide spectrum of activities, previously not possible in 2D…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mohammad Keshavarzi , Michael Zollhoefer , Allen Y. Yang , Patrick Peluse , Luisa Caldas

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

We present Interleaved Learning for Motion Synthesis (InterSyn), a novel framework that targets the generation of realistic interaction motions by learning from integrated motions that consider both solo and multi-person dynamics. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yiyi Ma , Yuanzhi Liang , Xiu Li , Chi Zhang , Xuelong Li

Modeling human-scene interactions (HSI) is essential for understanding and simulating everyday human behaviors. Recent approaches utilizing generative modeling have made progress in this domain; however, they are limited in controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Inwoo Hwang , Bing Zhou , Young Min Kim , Jian Wang , Chuan Guo

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

We present a physics-based character control framework for synthesizing human-scene interactions. Recent advances adopt physics simulation to mitigate artifacts produced by data-driven kinematic approaches. However, existing physics-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liang Pan , Jingbo Wang , Buzhen Huang , Junyu Zhang , Haofan Wang , Xu Tang , Yangang Wang

Synthesizing semantic-aware, long-horizon, human-object interaction is critical to simulate realistic human behaviors. In this work, we address the challenging problem of generating synchronized object motion and human motion guided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiaman Li , Alexander Clegg , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Jiajun Wu , Xavier Puig , C. Karen Liu

Interactive applications demand believable characters that respond naturally to dynamic environments. Traditional character animation techniques often struggle to handle arbitrary situations, leading to a growing trend of dynamically…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jose Luis Ponton , Sheldon Andrews , Carlos Andujar , Nuria Pelechano

Generating realistic motions for digital humans is a core but challenging part of computer animations and games, as human motions are both diverse in content and rich in styles. While the latest deep learning approaches have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ziyi Chang , Edmund J. C. Findlay , Haozheng Zhang , Hubert P. H. Shum

Synthesizing human motions in 3D environments, particularly those with complex activities such as locomotion, hand-reaching, and human-object interaction, presents substantial demands for user-defined waypoints and stage transitions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nan Jiang , Zimo He , Zi Wang , Hongjie Li , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang , Yixin Zhu