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Estimating human pose from video is a task that receives considerable attention due to its applicability in numerous 3D fields. The complexity of prior knowledge of human body movements poses a challenge to neural network models in the task…

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Vision-based 3D human motion capture from videos remains a challenge in computer vision. Traditional 3D pose estimation approaches often ignore the temporal consistency between frames, causing implausible and jittery motion. The emerging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Cuong Le , Pavlo Melnyk , Urs Waldmann , Mårten Wadenbäck , Bastian Wandt

Video generation models have developed rapidly in recent years, where generating natural human motion plays a pivotal role. However, accurately evaluating the quality of generated human motion video remains a significant challenge. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Bingzi Zhang , Kaisi Guan , Ruihua Song

Video diffusion models lack explicit geometric supervision during training, leading to inconsistency artifacts such as object deformation, spatial drift, and depth violations in generated videos. To address this limitation, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tengjiao Yin , Jinglei Shi , Heng Guo , Xi Wang

Humans possess delicate dynamic balance mechanisms that enable them to maintain stability across diverse terrains and under extreme conditions. However, despite significant advances recently, existing locomotion algorithms for humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Weiji Xie , Chenjia Bai , Jiyuan Shi , Junkai Yang , Yunfei Ge , Weinan Zhang , Xuelong Li

The recent years have witnessed great advances in video generation. However, the development of automatic video metrics is lagging significantly behind. None of the existing metric is able to provide reliable scores over generated videos.…

In recent years, video generation has seen significant advancements. However, challenges still persist in generating complex motions and interactions. To address these challenges, we introduce ReVision, a plug-and-play framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Qihao Liu , Ju He , Qihang Yu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Alan Yuille

The estimation of 3D human motion from video has progressed rapidly but current methods still have several key limitations. First, most methods estimate the human in camera coordinates. Second, prior work on estimating humans in global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Soyong Shin , Juyong Kim , Eni Halilaj , Michael J. Black

Recent progress in video generation has led to impressive visual quality, yet current models still struggle to produce results that align with real-world physical principles. To this end, we propose an iterative self-refinement framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yang Liu , Xilin Zhao , Peisong Wen , Siran Dai , Qingming Huang

Recent advances in video generation have shown remarkable potential for constructing world simulators. However, current models still struggle to produce physically consistent results, particularly when handling large-scale or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zijun Wang , Panwen Hu , Jing Wang , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Yuhao Cheng , Long Chen , Yiqiang Yan , Zutao Jiang , Hanhui Li , Xiaodan Liang

We consider the problem of estimating frame-level full human body meshes given a video of a person with natural motion dynamics. While much progress in this field has been in single image-based mesh estimation, there has been a recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Runze Li , Srikrishna Karanam , Ren Li , Terrence Chen , Bir Bhanu , Ziyan Wu

Recent advances in video diffusion models have enabled the generation of high-quality videos. However, these videos still suffer from unrealistic deformations, semantic violations, and physical inconsistencies that are largely rooted in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shurui Gui , Deep Anil Patel , Xiner Li , Martin Renqiang Min

Mastering robotic manipulation skills through reinforcement learning (RL) typically requires the design of shaped reward functions. Recent developments in this area have demonstrated that using sparse rewards, i.e. rewarding the agent only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Ozsel Kilinc , Giovanni Montana

The task of assessing movement quality has recently gained high demand in a variety of domains. The ability to automatically assess subject movement in videos that were captured by affordable devices, such as Kinect cameras, is essential…

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We introduce Unimotion, the first unified multi-task human motion model capable of both flexible motion control and frame-level motion understanding. While existing works control avatar motion with global text conditioning, or with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chuqiao Li , Julian Chibane , Yannan He , Naama Pearl , Andreas Geiger , Gerard Pons-moll

Although humans have the innate ability to imagine multiple possible actions from videos, it remains an extraordinary challenge for computers due to the intricate camera movements and montages. Most existing motion generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Liangdong Qiu , Chengxing Yu , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Di Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xiaoguang Han

Action recognition is a relatively established task, where givenan input sequence of human motion, the goal is to predict its ac-tion category. This paper, on the other hand, considers a relativelynew problem, which could be thought of as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Chuan Guo , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Shihao Zou , Qingyao Sun , Annan Deng , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

High-quality motion data underpins games, film, XR, and robotics. Vision-based motion capture tools have made significant progress, offering accessible and visually convincing results, yet often fall short in the final stretch -- the last…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tianxin Tao , Han Liu , Hung Yu Ling

Observing a human demonstrator manipulate objects provides a rich, scalable and inexpensive source of data for learning robotic policies. However, transferring skills from human videos to a robotic manipulator poses several challenges, not…

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