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Synthesize human motions from music, i.e., music to dance, is appealing and attracts lots of research interests in recent years. It is challenging due to not only the requirement of realistic and complex human motions for dance, but more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Wenlin Zhuang , Congyi Wang , Siyu Xia , Jinxiang Chai , Yangang Wang

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

Among various interactions between humans, such as eye contact and gestures, physical interactions by contact can act as an essential moment in understanding human behaviors. Inspired by this fact, given a 3D partner human with the desired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Dongjun Gu , Jaehyeok Shim , Jaehoon Jang , Changwoo Kang , Kyungdon Joo

Creating realistic characters that can react to the users' or another character's movement can benefit computer graphics, games and virtual reality hugely. However, synthesizing such reactive motions in human-human interactions is a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Qianhui Men , Hubert P. H. Shum , Edmond S. L. Ho , Howard Leung

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved the realism and generalizability of character-driven animation, enabling the synthesis of high-quality motion from just a single RGB image and a set of driving poses.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alireza Javanmardi , Pragati Jaiswal , Tewodros Amberbir Habtegebrial , Christen Millerdurai , Shaoxiang Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

Dance improvisation is an active research topic in the arts. Motion analysis of improvised dance can be challenging due to its unique dynamics. Data-driven dance motion analysis, including recognition and generation, is often limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jia Fu , Jiarui Tan , Wenjie Yin , Sepideh Pashami , Mårten Björkman

Human-human communication is like a delicate dance where listeners and speakers concurrently interact to maintain conversational dynamics. Hence, an effective model for generating listener nonverbal behaviors requires understanding the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Minh Tran , Di Chang , Maksim Siniukov , Mohammad Soleymani

Text-conditioned motion synthesis has made remarkable progress with the emergence of diffusion models. However, the majority of these motion diffusion models are primarily designed for a single character and overlook multi-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zhenzhi Wang , Jingbo Wang , Yixuan Li , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Generating realistic human grasps is crucial yet challenging for object manipulation in computer graphics and robotics. Current methods often struggle to generate detailed and realistic grasps with full finger-object interaction, as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Mengshi Qi , Zhe Zhao , Huadong Ma

Generating realistic, context-aware two-person motion conditioned on diverse modalities remains a fundamental challenge for graphics, animation and embodied AI systems. Real-world applications such as VR/AR companions, social robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Prerit Gupta , Shourya Verma , Ananth Grama , Aniket Bera

Effectively modeling the interaction between human hands and objects is challenging due to the complex physical constraints and the requirement for high generation efficiency in applications. Prior approaches often employ computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Xiaofei Wu , Tao Liu , Caoji Li , Yuexin Ma , Yujiao Shi , Xuming He

We study a challenging task, conditional human motion generation, which produces plausible human motion sequences according to various conditional inputs, such as action classes or textual descriptors. Since human motions are highly diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Xin Chen , Biao Jiang , Wen Liu , Zilong Huang , Bin Fu , Tao Chen , Jingyi Yu , Gang Yu

Dancing with music is always an essential human art form to express emotion. Due to the high temporal-spacial complexity, long-term 3D realist dance generation synchronized with music is challenging. Existing methods suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Siqi Yang , Zejun Yang , Zhisheng Wang

We propose a novel task for generating 3D dance movements that simultaneously incorporate both text and music modalities. Unlike existing works that generate dance movements using a single modality such as music, our goal is to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Kehong Gong , Dongze Lian , Heng Chang , Chuan Guo , Zihang Jiang , Xinxin Zuo , Michael Bi Mi , Xinchao Wang

In this study, we introduce a learning-based method for generating high-quality human motion sequences from text descriptions (e.g., ``A person walks forward"). Existing techniques struggle with motion diversity and smooth transitions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Weilin Wan , Yiming Huang , Shutong Wu , Taku Komura , Wenping Wang , Dinesh Jayaraman , Lingjie Liu

We present DuoMo, a generative method that recovers human motion in world-space coordinates from unconstrained videos with noisy or incomplete observations. Reconstructing such motion requires solving a fundamental trade-off: generalizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yufu Wang , Evonne Ng , Soyong Shin , Rawal Khirodkar , Yuan Dong , Zhaoen Su , Jinhyung Park , Kris Kitani , Alexander Richard , Fabian Prada , Michael Zollhofer

Multi-view diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for novel view synthesis, yet the underlying mechanism that enables their view-consistency remains unclear. In this work, we first verify that the attention maps of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Minkyung Kwon , Jinhyeok Choi , Jiho Park , Seonghu Jeon , Jinhyuk Jang , Junyoung Seo , Minseop Kwak , Jin-Hwa Kim , Seungryong Kim

We introduce Multimodal DuetDance (MDD), a diverse multimodal benchmark dataset designed for text-controlled and music-conditioned 3D duet dance motion generation. Our dataset comprises 620 minutes of high-quality motion capture data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Prerit Gupta , Jason Alexander Fotso-Puepi , Zhengyuan Li , Jay Mehta , Aniket Bera

Scene-aware motion synthesis has been widely researched recently due to its numerous applications. Prevailing methods rely heavily on paired motion-scene data, while it is difficult to generalize to diverse scenes when trained only on a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jingyu Gong , Chong Zhang , Fengqi Liu , Ke Fan , Qianyu Zhou , Xin Tan , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie

Despite recent progress, video diffusion models still struggle to synthesize realistic videos involving highly dynamic motions or requiring fine-grained motion controllability. A central limitation lies in the scarcity of such examples in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Wonjoon Jin , Jiyun Won , Janghyeok Han , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho