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This paper tackles the problem of physics-aware human motion synthesis in a dynamic scene. Unlike existing works which mainly tend to generate physically unrealistic motions due to limited contact modeling, typically restricted to hands, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chaoyue Xing , Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu

Recent work has demonstrated the significant potential of denoising diffusion models for generating human motion, including text-to-motion capabilities. However, these methods are restricted by the paucity of annotated motion data, a focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yonatan Shafir , Guy Tevet , Roy Kapon , Amit H. Bermano

Synthesizing realistic co-speech gestures is an important and yet unsolved problem for creating believable motions that can drive a humanoid robot to interact and communicate with human users. Such capability will improve the impressions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shuhong Lu , Youngwoo Yoon , Andrew Feng

Text-to-motion generation is a formidable task, aiming to produce human motions that align with the input text while also adhering to human capabilities and physical laws. While there have been advancements in diffusion models, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hanyang Kong , Kehong Gong , Dongze Lian , Michael Bi Mi , Xinchao Wang

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

Motion style transfer changes the style of a motion while retaining its content and is useful in computer animations and games. Contact is an essential component of motion style transfer that should be controlled explicitly in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiangjun Tang , Linjun Wu , He Wang , Yiqian Wu , Bo Hu , Songnan Li , Xu Gong , Yuchen Liao , Qilong Kou , Xiaogang Jin

Generating realistic human-human interactions is a challenging task that requires not only high-quality individual body and hand motions, but also coherent coordination among all interactants. Due to limitations in available data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pablo Ruiz-Ponce , Sergio Escalera , José García-Rodríguez , Jiankang Deng , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias

Recent success with large language models has sparked a new wave of verbal human-AI interaction. While such models support users in a variety of creative tasks, they lack the embodied nature of human interaction. Dance, as a primal form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Alexander Okupnik , Johannes Schneider , Kyriakos Flouris

Recently, digital humans for interpersonal interaction in virtual environments have gained significant attention. In this paper, we introduce a novel multi-dancer synthesis task called partner dancer generation, which involves synthesizing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siyue Yao , Mingjie Sun , Bingliang Li , Fengyu Yang , Junle Wang , Ruimao Zhang

Diffusion models have recently gained significant attention in robotics due to their ability to generate multi-modal distributions of system states and behaviors. However, a key challenge remains: ensuring precise control over the generated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luobin Wang , Hongzhan Yu , Chenning Yu , Sicun Gao , Henrik Christensen

Modeling and generating human reactions poses a significant challenge with broad applications for computer vision and human-computer interaction. Existing methods either treat multiple individuals as a single entity, directly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiyan Xu , Sirui Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui

Existing AI-generated dance methods primarily train on motion capture data from solo dance performances, but a critical feature of dance in nearly any genre is the interaction of two or more bodies in space. Moreover, many works at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zixuan Wang , Luis Zerkowski , Ilya Vidrin , Mariel Pettee

Emotion serves as an essential component in daily human interactions. Existing human motion generation frameworks do not consider the impact of emotions, which reduces naturalness and limits their application in interactive tasks, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Chen Zhu , Buzhen Huang , Zijing Wu , Binghui Zuo , Yangang Wang

Existing keyframe-based motion synthesis mainly focuses on the generation of cyclic actions or short-term motion, such as walking, running, and transitions between close postures. However, these methods will significantly degrade the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Junjun Pan , Siyuan Wang , Junxuan Bai , Ju Dai

Generating realistic 3D human-human interactions from textual descriptions remains a challenging task. Existing approaches, typically based on diffusion models, often produce results lacking realism and fidelity. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Muhammad Gohar Javed , Chuan Guo , Li Cheng , Xingyu Li

Mapping music to dance is a challenging problem that requires spatial and temporal coherence along with a continual synchronization with the music's progression. Taking inspiration from large language models, we introduce a 2-step approach…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sohan Anisetty , Amit Raj , James Hays

Generating realistic human motion with high-level controls is a crucial task for social understanding, robotics, and animation. With high-quality MOCAP data becoming more available recently, a wide range of data-driven approaches have been…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Wenning Xu , Shiyu Fan , Paul Henderson , Edmond S. L. Ho

Diffusion models have experienced a surge of interest as highly expressive yet efficiently trainable probabilistic models. We show that these models are an excellent fit for synthesising human motion that co-occurs with audio, e.g., dancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Simon Alexanderson , Rajmund Nagy , Jonas Beskow , Gustav Eje Henter

Modeling human behaviors in contextual environments has a wide range of applications in character animation, embodied AI, VR/AR, and robotics. In real-world scenarios, humans frequently interact with the environment and manipulate various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Jiaman Li , Jiajun Wu , C. Karen Liu

We tackle the novel problem of predicting 3D hand motion and contact maps (or Interaction Trajectories) given a single RGB view, action text, and a 3D contact point on the object as input. Our approach consists of (1) Interaction Codebook:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Aditya Prakash , Benjamin Lundell , Dmitry Andreychuk , David Forsyth , Saurabh Gupta , Harpreet Sawhney