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Human motion generation has found widespread applications in AR/VR, film, sports, and medical rehabilitation, offering a cost-effective alternative to traditional motion capture systems. However, evaluating the fidelity of such generated…

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Video generation models nowadays are capable of generating visually realistic videos, but often fail to adhere to physical laws, limiting their ability to generate physically plausible videos and serve as ''world models''. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sihui Ji , Xi Chen , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Hengshuang Zhao

While current methods have shown promising progress on estimating 3D human motion from monocular videos, their motion estimates are often physically unrealistic because they mainly consider kinematics. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yufei Zhang , Jeffrey O. Kephart , Zijun Cui , Qiang Ji

Human video generation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving task that aims to synthesize 2D human body video sequences with generative models given control conditions such as text, audio, and pose. With the potential for wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Wentao Lei , Jinting Wang , Fengji Ma , Guanjie Huang , Li Liu

Recent advances in model architectures, compute, and data scale have driven rapid progress in video generation, producing increasingly realistic content. Yet, no prior method systematically measures how faithfully these systems render human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yusu Fang , Tiange Xiang , Tian Tan , Narayan Schuetz , Scott Delp , Li Fei-Fei , Ehsan Adeli

Despite rapid advances in video generative models, robust metrics for evaluating visual and temporal correctness of complex human actions remain elusive. Critically, existing pure-vision encoders and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xavier Thomas , Youngsun Lim , Ananya Srinivasan , Audrey Zheng , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Recent advances in 3D content generation have amplified demand for dynamic models that are both visually realistic and physically consistent. However, state-of-the-art video diffusion models frequently produce implausible results such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Siwei Meng , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu

The ultimate goal of video generation is to satisfy a fundamental trilemma: achieving high visual quality, maintaining rigorous physical consistency, and enabling precise controllability. While recent models can maintain this balance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tianshuo Xu , Zhifei Chen , Leyi Wu , Hao Lu , Ying-cong Chen

Recent advances in video diffusion models have remarkably improved camera-controlled video generation, but most methods rely solely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT), leaving online reinforcement learning (RL) post-training largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zhaoqing Wang , Xiaobo Xia , Zhuolin Bie , Jinlin Liu , Dongdong Yu , Jia-Wang Bian , Changhu Wang

Extracting physically plausible 3D human motion from videos is a critical task. Although existing simulation-based motion imitation methods can enhance the physical quality of daily motions estimated from monocular video capture, extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Youliang Zhang , Ronghui Li , Yachao Zhang , Liang Pan , Jingbo Wang , Yebin Liu , Xiu Li

Generating realistic human videos remains a challenging task, with the most effective methods currently relying on a human motion sequence as a control signal. Existing approaches often use existing motion extracted from other videos, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hsin-Ping Huang , Yang Zhou , Jui-Hsien Wang , Difan Liu , Feng Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Zhan Xu

Generating human videos with realistic and controllable motions is a challenging task. While existing methods can generate visually compelling videos, they lack separate control over four key video elements: foreground subject, background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jingyun Liang , Jingkai Zhou , Shikai Li , Chenjie Cao , Lei Sun , Yichen Qian , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

We present PhysGen, a novel image-to-video generation method that converts a single image and an input condition (e.g., force and torque applied to an object in the image) to produce a realistic, physically plausible, and temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shaowei Liu , Zhongzheng Ren , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

We introduce HuMoR: a 3D Human Motion Model for Robust Estimation of temporal pose and shape. Though substantial progress has been made in estimating 3D human motion and shape from dynamic observations, recovering plausible pose sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Davis Rempe , Tolga Birdal , Aaron Hertzmann , Jimei Yang , Srinath Sridhar , Leonidas J. Guibas

Generative world models are increasingly used for video generation, where learned simulators are expected to capture the physical rules that govern real-world dynamics. However, evaluating whether generated videos actually follow these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Juyi Lin , Arash Akbari , Yumei He , Lin Zhao , Haichao Zhang , Arman Akbari , Xingchen Xu , Zoe Y. Lu , Enfu Nan , Hokin Deng , Edmund Yeh , Sarah Ostadabbas , Yun Fu , Jennifer Dy , Pu Zhao , Yanzhi Wang

Existing methods for human motion control in video generation typically rely on either 2D poses or explicit 3D parametric models (e.g., SMPL) as control signals. However, 2D poses rigidly bind motion to the driving viewpoint, precluding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhixue Fang , Xu He , Songlin Tang , Haoxian Zhang , Qingfeng Li , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai

We introduce DiffPhy, a differentiable physics-based model for articulated 3d human motion reconstruction from video. Applications of physics-based reasoning in human motion analysis have so far been limited, both by the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Erik Gärtner , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Erwin Coumans , Cristian Sminchisescu

Visual generative models have achieved remarkable progress in synthesizing photorealistic images and videos, yet aligning their outputs with human preferences across critical dimensions remains a persistent challenge. Though reinforcement…

Creating scenes for captured motions that achieve realistic human-scene interaction is crucial for 3D animation in movies or video games. As character motion is often captured in a blue-screened studio without real furniture or objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jianan Li , Tao Huang , Qingxu Zhu , Tien-Tsin Wong

Video generation models have advanced significantly, yet they still struggle to synthesize complex human movements due to the high degrees of freedom in human articulation. This limitation stems from the intrinsic constraints of pixel-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yuxiao Yang , Hualian Sheng , Sijia Cai , Jing Lin , Jiahao Wang , Bing Deng , Junzhe Lu , Haoqian Wang , Jieping Ye