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Character animation aims to generate lifelike videos by transferring motion dynamics from a driving video to a reference image. Recent strides in generative models have paved the way for high-fidelity character animation. In this work, we…

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Motion control is crucial for generating expressive and compelling video content; however, most existing video generation models rely mainly on text prompts for control, which struggle to capture the nuances of dynamic actions and temporal…

Video generation remains a challenging task due to spatiotemporal complexity and the requirement of synthesizing diverse motions with temporal consistency. Previous works attempt to generate videos in arbitrary lengths either in an…

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While generative models have excelled at creating static 3D content, the pursuit of systems that understand how objects move and respond to interactions remains a fundamental challenge. Current methods for articulated motion lie at a…

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In this paper, we introduce ControlVAE, a novel model-based framework for learning generative motion control policies based on variational autoencoders (VAE). Our framework can learn a rich and flexible latent representation of skills and a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Heyuan Yao , Zhenhua Song , Baoquan Chen , Libin Liu

Human animation aims to generate temporally coherent and visually consistent videos over long sequences, yet modeling long-range dependencies while preserving frame quality remains challenging. Inspired by the human ability to leverage past…

Long-term human motion can be represented as a series of motion modes---motion sequences that capture short-term temporal dynamics---with transitions between them. We leverage this structure and present a novel Motion Transformation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Xinchen Yan , Akash Rastogi , Ruben Villegas , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Eli Shechtman , Sunil Hadap , Ersin Yumer , Honglak Lee

Generating long and stylized human motions in real time is critical for applications that demand continuous and responsive character control. Despite its importance, existing streaming approaches often operate directly in the raw motion…

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Recent advances in diffusion models bring new vitality to visual content creation. However, current text-to-video generation models still face significant challenges such as high training costs, substantial data requirements, and…

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Generating high-fidelity, temporally consistent videos in autonomous driving scenarios faces a significant challenge, e.g. problematic maneuvers in corner cases. Despite recent video generation works are proposed to tackcle the mentioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Junpeng Jiang , Gangyi Hong , Lijun Zhou , Enhui Ma , Hengtong Hu , Xia Zhou , Jie Xiang , Fan Liu , Kaicheng Yu , Haiyang Sun , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Miao Zhang

While recent image-based human animation methods achieve realistic body and facial motion synthesis, critical gaps remain in fine-grained holistic controllability, multi-scale adaptability, and long-term temporal coherence, which leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuxuan Luo , Zhengkun Rong , Lizhen Wang , Longhao Zhang , Tianshu Hu , Yongming Zhu

The pursuit of controllability as a higher standard of visual content creation has yielded remarkable progress in customizable image synthesis. However, achieving controllable video synthesis remains challenging due to the large variation…

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Supporting real-time interactions between human controllers and remote devices remains a challenging goal in the Metaverse due to the stringent requirements on computing workload, communication throughput, and round-trip latency. In this…

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We propose a real-time method for reactive motion synthesis based on the known trajectory of input character, predicting instant reactions using only historical, user-controlled motions. Our method handles the uncertainty of future…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xiaotang Zhang , Ziyi Chang , Qianhui Men , Hubert Shum

We present ReCoM, an efficient framework for generating high-fidelity and generalizable human body motions synchronized with speech. The core innovation lies in the Recurrent Embedded Transformer (RET), which integrates Dynamic Embedding…

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Discovering constants of motion is meaningful in helping understand the dynamical systems, but inevitably needs proficient mathematical skills and keen analytical capabilities. With the prevalence of deep learning, methods employing neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wenqi Fang , Chao Chen , Yongkui Yang , Zheng Wang

Human-human motion generation is essential for understanding humans as social beings. Current methods fall into two main categories: single-person-based methods and separate modeling-based methods. To delve into this field, we abstract the…

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We investigate large-scale latent variable models (LVMs) for neural story generation -- an under-explored application for open-domain long text -- with objectives in two threads: generation effectiveness and controllability. LVMs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Le Fang , Tao Zeng , Chaochun Liu , Liefeng Bo , Wen Dong , Changyou Chen

The ability to generate complex and realistic human body animations at scale, while following specific artistic constraints, has been a fundamental goal for the game and animation industry for decades. Popular techniques include…

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