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Recent advances in robotics have been largely driven by imitation learning, which depends critically on large-scale, high-quality demonstration data. However, collecting such data remains a significant challenge-particularly for mobile…

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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

Current motion-controlled image-to-video generation models rigidly follow user-provided trajectories that are often sparse, imprecise, and causally incomplete. Such reliance often yields unnatural or implausible outcomes, especially by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lee Hsin-Ying , Hanwen Jiang , Yiqun Mei , Jing Shi , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhixin Shu

Keyframes are a standard representation for kinematic motion specification. Recent learned motion-inbetweening methods use keyframes as a way to control generative motion models, and are trained to generate life-like motion that matches the…

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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…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tianshan Zhang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Animating images with interactive motion control has garnered popularity for image-to-video (I2V) generation. Modern approaches typically rely on large Gaussian kernels to extend motion trajectories as condition without explicitly defining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhongwei Zhang , Fuchen Long , Zhaofan Qiu , Yingwei Pan , Wu Liu , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaoxuan Liang , Saeid Naderiparizi , Yunpeng Liu , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

Recent advancements in personalized Text-to-Video (T2V) generation have made significant strides in synthesizing character-specific content. However, these methods face a critical limitation: the inability to perform fine-grained control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Haopeng Fang , Di Qiu , Binjie Mao , He Tang

Whole-body multimodal motion generation, controlled by text, speech, or music, has numerous applications including video generation and character animation. However, employing a unified model to achieve various generation tasks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yuxuan Bian , Ailing Zeng , Xuan Ju , Xian Liu , Zhaoyang Zhang , Wei Liu , Qiang Xu

The development of generative artificial intelligence for human motion generation has expanded rapidly, necessitating a unified evaluation framework. This paper presents a detailed review of eight evaluation metrics for human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ali Ismail-Fawaz , Maxime Devanne , Stefano Berretti , Jonathan Weber , Germain Forestier

The functional demands of robotic systems often require completing various tasks or behaviors under the effect of disturbances or uncertain environments. Of increasing interest is the autonomy for dynamic robots, such as multirotors, motor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Wyatt Ubellacker , Aaron Ames

Our goal is to enable social robots to interact autonomously with humans in a realistic, engaging, and expressive manner. The 12 Principles of Animation are a well-established framework animators use to create movements that make characters…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Till Hielscher , Andreas Bulling , Kai O. Arras

Text-to-motion generation has advanced rapidly, yet two challenges persist. First, existing motion autoencoders compress each frame into a single monolithic latent vector, entangling trajectory and per-joint rotations in an unstructured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zeyu Ling , Qing Shuai , Teng Zhang , Shiyang Li , Bo Han , Changqing Zou

Long-term motion generation is a challenging task that requires producing coherent and realistic sequences over extended durations. Current methods primarily rely on framewise motion representations, which capture only static spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yifei Yang , Zikai Huang , Chenshu Xu , Shengfeng He

Human motion generation is a critical task with a wide range of applications. Achieving high realism in generated motions requires naturalness, smoothness, and plausibility. Despite rapid advancements in the field, current generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Haoru Wang , Wentao Zhu , Luyi Miao , Yishu Xu , Feng Gao , Qi Tian , Yizhou Wang

Conditional motion generation has been extensively studied in computer vision, yet two critical challenges remain. First, while masked autoregressive methods have recently outperformed diffusion-based approaches, existing masking models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zeyu Zhang , Yiran Wang , Wei Mao , Danning Li , Rui Zhao , Biao Wu , Zirui Song , Bohan Zhuang , Ian Reid , Richard Hartley

With the rapid advancement of game and film production, generating interactive motion from texts has garnered significant attention due to its potential to revolutionize content creation processes. In many practical applications, there is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Runqi Wang , Caoyuan Ma , Jian Zhao , Hanrui Xu , Dongfang Sun , Haoyang Chen , Lin Xiong , Zheng Wang , Xuelong Li

Collision-free motion generation in unknown environments is a core building block for robot manipulation. Generating such motions is challenging due to multiple objectives; not only should the solutions be optimal, the motion generator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Adam Fishman , Adithyavairan Murali , Clemens Eppner , Bryan Peele , Byron Boots , Dieter Fox

Desktop organization remains challenging for service robots because of heterogeneous objects and diverse manipulation objectives, such as collection and stacking. In this article, a task-oriented framework is presented for organizing planar…

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