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Learning locomotion skills is a challenging problem. To generate realistic and smooth locomotion, existing methods use motion capture, finite state machines or morphology-specific knowledge to guide the motion generation algorithms. Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Wenhao Yu , Greg Turk , C. Karen Liu

Recent advances in 4D generation mainly focus on generating 4D content by distilling pre-trained text or single-view image-conditioned models. It is inconvenient for them to take advantage of various off-the-shelf 3D assets with multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yanqin Jiang , Chaohui Yu , Chenjie Cao , Fan Wang , Weiming Hu , Jin Gao

Recent progress in video diffusion models has markedly advanced character animation, which synthesizes motioned videos by animating a static identity image according to a driving video. Explicit methods represent motion using skeleton,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhufeng Xu , Xuan Gao , Feng-Lin Liu , Haoxian Zhang , Zhixue Fang , Yu-Kun Lai , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Lin Gao

Learning robot manipulation from abundant human videos offers a scalable alternative to costly robot-specific data collection. However, domain gaps across visual, morphological, and physical aspects hinder direct imitation. To effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yangcen Liu , Woo Chul Shin , Yunhai Han , Zhenyang Chen , Harish Ravichandar , Danfei Xu

Recent 3D human motion generation models demonstrate remarkable reconstruction accuracy yet struggle to generalize beyond training distributions. This limitation arises partly from the use of precise 3D supervision, which encourages models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Sheng Liu , Yuanzhi Liang , Sidan Du

3D Human motion generation is pivotal across film, animation, gaming, and embodied intelligence. Traditional 3D motion synthesis relies on costly motion capture, while recent work shows that 2D videos provide rich, temporally coherent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yi-Yang Zhang , Tengjiao Sun , Pengcheng Fang , Deng-Bao Wang , Xiaohao Cai , Min-Ling Zhang , Hansung Kim

Generating realistic 3D worlds occupied by moving humans has many applications in games, architecture, and synthetic data creation. But generating such scenes is expensive and labor intensive. Recent work generates human poses and motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Hongwei Yi , Chun-Hao P. Huang , Shashank Tripathi , Lea Hering , Justus Thies , Michael J. Black

Character image animation aims to synthesize high-fidelity videos by transferring motion from a driving sequence to a static reference image. Despite recent advancements, existing methods suffer from two fundamental challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Mingshuang Luo , Shuang Liang , Zhengkun Rong , Yuxuan Luo , Tianshu Hu , Ruibing Hou , Hong Chang , Yong Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingyuan Gao

Despite significant advances in video generation, synthesizing physically plausible human actions remains a persistent challenge, particularly in modeling fine-grained semantics and complex temporal dynamics. For instance, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Dian Shao , Mingfei Shi , Shengda Xu , Haodong Chen , Yongle Huang , Binglu Wang

3D animation is central to modern visual media, yet traditional production pipelines remain labor-intensive, expertise-demanding, and computationally expensive. Recent AIGC-based approaches partially automate asset creation and rigging, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yupeng Zhu , Xiongzhen Zhang , Ye Chen , Bingbing Ni

Human motion copy is an intriguing yet challenging task in artificial intelligence and computer vision, which strives to generate a fake video of a target person performing the motion of a source person. The problem is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sifan Wu , Zhenguang Liu , Beibei Zhang , Roger Zimmermann , Zhongjie Ba , Xiaosong Zhang , Kui Ren

Generating videos of complex human motions such as flips, cartwheels, and martial arts remains challenging for current video diffusion models. Text-only conditioning is temporally ambiguous for fine-grained motion control, while explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

In this paper, we propose a novel learning approach for feed-forward one-shot 4D head avatar synthesis. Different from existing methods that often learn from reconstructing monocular videos guided by 3DMM, we employ pseudo multi-view videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yu Deng , Duomin Wang , Baoyuan Wang

Imitation learning provides an efficient way to teach robots dexterous skills; however, learning complex skills robustly and generalizablely usually consumes large amounts of human demonstrations. To tackle this challenging problem, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yanjie Ze , Gu Zhang , Kangning Zhang , Chenyuan Hu , Muhan Wang , Huazhe Xu

3D Human Motion Indexing and Retrieval is an interesting problem due to the rise of several data-driven applications aimed at analyzing and/or re-utilizing 3D human skeletal data, such as data-driven animation, analysis of sports…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Neeraj Battan , Abbhinav Venkat , Avinash Sharma

The growing use of virtual autonomous agents in applications like games and entertainment demands better control policies for natural-looking movements and actions. Unlike the conventional approach of hard-coding motion routines, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Subhajit Chaudhury , Daiki Kimura , Asim Munawar , Ryuki Tachibana

Imitation learning from human motion capture (MoCap) data provides a promising way to train humanoid robots. However, due to differences in morphology, such as varying degrees of joint freedom and force limits, exact replication of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenshuai Zhao , Yi Zhao , Joni Pajarinen , Michael Muehlebach

Imitation learning from a large set of human demonstrations has proved to be an effective paradigm for building capable robot agents. However, the demonstrations can be extremely costly and time-consuming to collect. We introduce MimicGen,…

Online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) from videos is a challenging computer vision task which has been extensively studied for decades. Most of the existing MOT algorithms are based on the Tracking-by-Detection (TBD) paradigm combined with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Zhen He , Jian Li , Daxue Liu , Hangen He , David Barber

We propose a new method for realistic human motion transfer using a generative adversarial network (GAN), which generates a motion video of a target character imitating actions of a source character, while maintaining high authenticity of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yang-Tian Sun , Qian-Cheng Fu , Yue-Ren Jiang , Zitao Liu , Yu-Kun Lai , Hongbo Fu , Lin Gao