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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

Generating 3D human motion based on textual descriptions has been a research focus in recent years. It requires the generated motion to be diverse, natural, and conform to the textual description. Due to the complex spatio-temporal nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chongyang Zhong , Lei Hu , Zihao Zhang , Shihong Xia

Recent advancements in 3D perception systems have significantly improved their ability to perform visual recognition tasks such as segmentation. However, these systems still heavily rely on explicit human instruction to identify target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Amrin Kareem , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

Audio-driven emotional 3D facial animation aims to generate synchronized lip movements and vivid facial expressions. However, most existing approaches focus on static and predefined emotion labels, limiting their diversity and naturalness.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Chang Liu , Ye Pan , Chenyang Ding , Susanto Rahardja , Xiaokang Yang

We present DanceAnyWay, a generative learning method to synthesize beat-guided dances of 3D human characters synchronized with music. Our method learns to disentangle the dance movements at the beat frames from the dance movements at all…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Aneesh Bhattacharya , Manas Paranjape , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera

Speech-driven 3D face animation poses significant challenges due to the intricacy and variability inherent in human facial movements. This paper emphasizes the importance of considering both the composite and regional natures of facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Haozhe Wu , Songtao Zhou , Jia Jia , Junliang Xing , Qi Wen , Xiang Wen

Generating natural and expressive human motions from textual descriptions is challenging due to the complexity of coordinating full-body dynamics and capturing nuanced motion patterns over extended sequences that accurately reflect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Seong-Eun Hong , Soobin Lim , Juyeong Hwang , Minwook Chang , Hyeongyeop Kang

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

Speech-driven facial animation aims to synthesize lip-synchronized 3D talking faces following the given speech signal. Prior methods to this task mostly focus on pursuing realism with deterministic systems, yet characterizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chunzhi Gu , Shigeru Kuriyama , Katsuya Hotta

Conditional human motion generation is an important topic with many applications in virtual reality, gaming, and robotics. While prior works have focused on generating motion guided by text, music, or scenes, these typically result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 German Barquero , Sergio Escalera , Cristina Palmero

Motion style transfer is a common method for enriching character animation. Motion style transfer algorithms are often designed for offline settings where motions are processed in segments. However, for online animation applications, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Tianxin Tao , Xiaohang Zhan , Zhongquan Chen , Michiel van de Panne

Speech-driven 3D talking head generation aims to produce lifelike facial animations precisely synchronized with speech. While considerable progress has been made in achieving high lip-synchronization accuracy, existing methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Bin Wang , Yang Xu , Huan Zhao , Hao Zhang , Zixing Zhang

Current techniques face difficulties in generating motions from intricate semantic descriptions, primarily due to insufficient semantic annotations in datasets and weak contextual understanding. To address these issues, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xin He , Shaoli Huang , Xiaohang Zhan , Chao Weng , Ying Shan

Singing-driven 3D head animation is a challenging yet promising task with applications in virtual avatars, entertainment, and education. Unlike speech, singing involves richer emotional nuance, dynamic prosody, and lyric-based semantics,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zikai Huang , Yihan Zhou , Xuemiao Xu , Cheng Xu , Xiaofen Xing , Jing Qin , Shengfeng He

Text-guided dynamic 3D character generation has advanced rapidly, yet producing high-quality motion that faithfully reflects rich textual descriptions remains challenging. Existing methods tend to generate limited sub-actions or incoherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Miaowei Wang , Qingxuan Yan , Zhi Cao , Yayuan Li , Oisin Mac Aodha , Jason J. Corso , Amir Vaxman

Creating realistic 3D animation remains a time-consuming and expertise-dependent process, requiring manual rigging, keyframing, and fine-tuning of complex motions. Meanwhile, video diffusion models have recently demonstrated remarkable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tianyi Xie , Yunuo Chen , Yaowei Guo , Yin Yang , Bolei Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

With captivating visual effects, stylized 3D character animation has gained widespread use in cinematic production, advertising, social media, and the potential development of virtual reality (VR) non-player characters (NPCs). However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xinwu Ye , Jun-Hsiang Yao , Jielin Feng , Shuhong Mei , Xingyu Lan , Siming Chen

Diverse and extensive work has recently been conducted on text-conditioned human motion generation. However, progress in the reverse direction, motion captioning, has seen less comparable advancement. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Karim Radouane , Julien Lagarde , Sylvie Ranwez , Andon Tchechmedjiev

Humanoid motion control has witnessed significant breakthroughs in recent years, with deep reinforcement learning (RL) emerging as a primary catalyst for achieving complex, human-like behaviors. However, the high dimensionality and…

Neural implicit representations of 3D shapes have shown great potential in 3D shape editing due to their ability to model high-level semantics and continuous geometric representations. However, existing methods often suffer from limited…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jin Zhou , Hongliang Yang , Pengfei Xu , Hui Huang