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  1. Benchmarking Behavioral Steerability in Behavior Foundation Models

    Oct 7, 2026Minghe Gao, Zhanxi Yan, Jiahui Liu +9Human Motion Generation

    ZJU · Unitree · NUS +2

  2. SuperMotion: Source-Preserving Denoising for Text-Driven Human Motion Editing

    Oct 1, 2026Fa-Ting Hong, Peter WonkaHuman Motion GenerationDiffusion Models for Motion Generation

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  3. ECHO-G: Embodied Co-speech Humanoid mOtion Generation

    Sep 30, 2026Yizhao Li, Pusen Gao, Ming Wang +3Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Beihang University · Mondo Robotics · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  4. PAMI: Part Anchored Motion for Text to Human-Object Interaction Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Chuqiao Li, Xianghui Xie, Yong Cao +2HOI GenerationText-to-Motion Generation

    Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany

  5. Generative Interactions: Weaving Multiparty Human Motion with Bilevel Latent Dynamics

    Sep 29, 2026Ojas Shirekar, Yash Surange, Agustinas Jučas +1Latent Dynamics ModelingHuman Motion Generation

    TU Delft Delft, The Netherlands · University of Oxford Oxford, UK

  6. BeatDance: Generating Beat-Consistent 3D Dance with Hierarchical Spatial-Temporal Modeling

    Sep 29, 2026Xiaojian Shen, Dahu Shi, Jianrong Zhang +7Human Motion GenerationAudio-Visual Synchronization

    College of Software, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310007, China · ReLER, AAII, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia +5

  7. AESOP: Asymmetric Human-Camera Generation with Translation-Intensity Control

    Sep 29, 2026Jingzhong Lin, Zhanke Wang, Heng Li +9Human Motion Generation

    East China Normal University · Peking University · Sun Yat-sen University +1

  8. World2Motion: Turning Video World Models into 3D Human Motion Generators

    Sep 29, 2026Fangyuan Tu, Xiangyue Zhang, Yiyi Cai +8Human Motion GenerationDiffusion Models for Motion Generation

    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · The University of Tokyo · Institute of Science Tokyo +1

  9. DualTrack: Synchronized speech-gesture generation via symmetric coupling of pretrained priors

    Sep 29, 2026Yuanzhuo Hu, Zehan Liu, Xiaoyi Qin +1Human Motion GenerationCo-Speech Gesture Generation

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China · X Square Robot

  10. BiMoGen: Bidirectional Motion-Text Generation via Unified Masked Discrete Diffusion

    Sep 28, 2026Wanjiang Weng, Yongliang Wu, Xiaofeng Tan +3Masked Diffusion ModelsText-to-Motion Generation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China · Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China · National University of Singapore +1

  11. Triangular Resampling for Long-Horizon Motion Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Kunhang Li, Yiyi Cai, Xiangyue Zhang +5Motion Diffusion ModelsHuman Motion Generation

    The University of Tokyo · Alaya Lab · Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  12. MotionSpaceFlow: Representation-Aware Flow Matching in Direct Motion Space

    Sep 28, 2026Qing Yu, Kent FujiwaraFlow MatchingText-to-Motion Generation

    LY Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

  13. Naturalness-guided Manifold Flow Matching for Sign Language Production

    Sep 27, 2026Jiayi He, Shengeng Tang, Sisi You +3Flow MatchingHuman Motion Generation

    Hefei University of Technology

  14. SocialHumanoid: Towards Expressive Humanoid Behavior via One-Step Co-Speech Motion Generation

    Sep 27, 2026Chengqun Yang, Tengjie Zhu, Liang Xu +10Human Motion GenerationCo-Speech Gesture Generation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · ZTE Corporation

  15. FloodDiffusion 2: Efficient and Path Controllable Streaming Motion Generation

    Sep 27, 2026Yiyi Cai, Yuhan Wu, Kunhang Li +6Motion Diffusion ModelsHuman Motion Generation

    Alaya Lab · The University of Tokyo · Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology +1

  16. BeyondRetarget: Learning Executable Humanoid Motions Directly from Monocular Video

    Sep 24, 2026Tianyu Xiong, Yi Lu, Jinrui Wang +6Human Motion GenerationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Jiangsu Mobile Information System Integration Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China · China Mobile Zijin (Jiangsu) Innovation Research Institute Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China +1

  17. Sample, Simulate, Select: Physics-in-the-Loop Text-to-Motion for Humanoids Without Training

    Sep 22, 2026Raphael Memmesheimer, Sven BehnkeHuman Motion GenerationRobot Motion Generation

    Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Computer Science Institute VI, Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and Center for Robotics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  18. VISTA: Video-Injected Stylized Text-to-Animation

    Sep 20, 2026Monseej Purkayastha, Anindita Ghosh, Philipp SlusallekText-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Saarland Informatics Campus & German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), Saarbrücken, Germany

  19. MoSAT: Human Motion Generation from Spatial Audio and Textual Description

    Sep 20, 2026Shuyang Xu, Zhiyang Dou, Yiduo Hao +8Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    The University of Hong Kong · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · University of Pennsylvania +5

  20. Generative Embodied Multiple Behavior Control Systems for Human-like Agents

    Sep 19, 2026Chongyu Bao, Haokai Yang, Yuhan Wang +3Cognitive Architectures for AI AgentsHuman Behavior Simulation

    University of Bristol · University of Copenhagen · Clemson University

  21. LYRIC: Language-Driven Physics-Based Character Control for Contact-Rich Whole-Body Object Interaction

    Sep 17, 2026Zeyu Han, Zichong Meng, Julian Tanke +8HOI GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Northeastern University, USA · Sony AI America Inc, USA · Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc, Japan +3

  22. UniMo: Unifying Human and Animal Motion Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Zeyu Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Siheng Wang +4Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Westlake University, China · The Australian National University, Australia

  23. MoVT: Video-Augmented Motion Tokenizer for Text-to-Motion Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Beibei Jing, Tianle Guo, Youjia Zhang +5Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Computer Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China · Zhejiang University School of Software Technology Ningbo, China

  24. EMoG: Emotion-Modulated Gait Generation for Expressive Humanoid Locomotion

    Sep 13, 2026Yi Lu, Tianhao Jiang, Honglong Tian +6Humanoid Robot LocomotionHuman Motion Generation

    School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China. · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou 215163, China. · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China. +1

  25. Multi-Modal Controlled Coherent Motion Generation

    Sep 11, 2026Yifei Liu, Qiong Cao, Hongwei Yi +2Human Motion Generation3D Avatar Generation

    South China University of Technology · Joy Future Academy · Peking University

  26. ReMoMask-2: Latent Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generation

    Sep 8, 2026Yiran Wang, Zeyu Zhang, Ling Shao +1Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    University of Sydney, Camperdown 2006, Australia · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · UCAS-Terminus AI Lab, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China

  27. Flexible Motion Generation from Language and Style References

    Sep 7, 2026Kai Weixian Lan, Bodie Criswell, Briana Fedkiw +3Text-to-Motion GenerationMotion Diffusion Models

    University of California, Davis, USA · University of Utah, USA · Epic Games, USA +1

  28. Mudragen: Geometrically Supervised Generation of Interacting Two-Hand Mudras for Preserving Indian Classical Dance Heritage

    Sep 3, 2026Jagadish Kashinath Kamble, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Debaditya Roy +1Conditional Image GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal, INDIA · Ashoka University Sonipat, Haryana, INDIA

  29. Puppeteer: Object-Grounded Posture-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Vida Adeli, Soroush Mehraban, Jacob Rommann +3Motion Diffusion ModelsHuman Motion Generation

    Pickford AI · University of Toronto · Vector Institute

  30. Text-Driven Artistic Staging: 3D Posing, Lighting, and Camera References from Paintings

    Aug 28, 2026Yunge WenHuman Motion Generation3D Scene Generation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, USA

  31. SignRR: Retrieve and Refine Real Motion for Sign Language Production

    Aug 28, 2026Fidel Omar Tito Cruz, Angie Sanchez Marquina, Summy Farfan +1Human Motion GenerationMotion Representation Learning

    University of Central Florida Florida, USA · Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Lima, Peru · Universidad Catolica San Pablo Arequipa, Peru +1

  32. The GENEA Challenge 2026: A Large-Scale Disentangled Evaluation of Speech-Driven Gesture Generation on the Seamless Interaction Dataset

    Aug 11, 2026Rajmund Nagy, Silvia Arellano García, Hendric Voss +4Human Motion GenerationCo-Speech Gesture Generation

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Bielefeld University · Independent researcher +3

  33. UniMoFlow: Grounding Instruction-Driven 3D Human Motion Editing in Generation

    Aug 10, 2026Yilei Hua, Beibei Jing, Ce Zheng +3Flow MatchingText-to-Motion Generation

    School of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University

  34. VSMP-IMU: Video-Grounded Semantic Motion Programs for Sensor-Aware Synthetic IMU Generation

    Aug 6, 2026Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Vitor Fortes Rey, Mengxi Liu +2Human Activity RecognitionSynthetic Data Generation

    DFKI, Germany · DFKI · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

  35. Tired Actor: Fatigue-Informed Character Control

    Aug 4, 2026Shengyuan Zhang, Xinpeng Liu, Muchun Niu +5Human Motion GenerationImitation Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Harbin Institute of Technology

  36. Surface Keypoint Representation for Multi-Object and Articulated Human-Object Interaction Generation

    Aug 4, 2026Xiaogang Peng, Zeyu Han, Zichong Meng +4HOI GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Northeastern University, USA · Xi’an Jiaotong University, China · Amazon, USA

  37. DigitCode: Symbolic Tokenization of Hand Motion by Anatomical Units

    Aug 4, 2026Haoyu Gu, Haotian Lu, Jingrun Du +1Human Motion Generation

    School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology · Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ubiquitous Data Enabling, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  38. StreamTalk: Streaming Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Key-Pose Anchoring

    Aug 3, 2026Xiangyue Zhang, Jianfang Li, Jiaxu Zhang +2Human Motion GenerationCo-Speech Gesture Generation

    The University of Tokyo · Alibaba Group · Nanyang Technological University +1

  39. MoRAE: Flow-Friendly Self-Supervised Latents for Text-to-Motion Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Yifei Zhu, Mingyi Shi, Yangyang Cai +3Self-Supervised LearningText-to-Motion Generation

    1Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan · 2The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  40. MUGEN: A Unified Framework for Efficient Motion Understanding and Generation

    Jul 30, 2026Zhankai Ye, Yukai Jin, Bingyang Wei +5Representation LearningHuman Motion Generation

    1Florida State University · 2Texas Christian University · University of Miami +1

  41. MoSAIC: Aligned Intervention Supervision for Part-Local Motion Style Transfer

    Jul 28, 2026Nazanin Amini, Kevin DesaiHuman Motion GenerationDiffusion Models

    Department of Computer Science, College of AI, Cyber and Computing, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas, 78249, USA

  42. STEER: Steerable Dyadic Head Avatars

    Jul 26, 2026Kartik Teotia, Helge Rhodin, Hyeongwoo Kim +2Human Motion Generation3D Avatar Generation

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

  43. Real-Time Human-Centric World Modeling for Upper-Body Human-Object Interaction

    Jul 26, 2026Chaonan Ji, Jinwei Qi, Peng Zhang +1HOI GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Tongyi Lab, Beijing, China

  44. HarmoHOI: Harmonizing Appearance and 3D Motion for Multi-view Hand-Object Interaction Synthesis

    Jul 19, 2026Lingwei Dang, Juntong Li, Zonghan Li +5Multi-View ConsistencyMulti-View Video Generation

    South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China · Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China +1

  45. MIME: Multimodal Interactive Motion Encoder

    Jul 18, 2026Addison Zucek, Prerit Gupta, Kamila Kuatova +1Text-to-Motion GenerationCross-Modal Alignment

    Purdue University

  46. Physics-Informed Diffusion for Biomechanically Plausible 3D Sign Language Generation

    Jul 16, 2026Emanuele Colonna, Moises Diaz, Gennaro Vessio +2Physics-Informed Diffusion ModelsHuman Motion Generation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy · Institute for Technological Development and Innovation in Communications, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

  47. Music-to-Dance Generation via Atomic Movements

    Jul 15, 2026Xinhao Cai, Yixuan Sun, Minghang Zheng +4Human Motion Generation

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University · School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University · National Institute of Health Data Science, Peking University +3

  48. MultiAnimate: A Unified Framework for Controllable Multi-Character Animation

    Jul 15, 2026Zhongyi Zhang, Guangyuan Wang, Li Hu +6Identity-Preserving Video GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Fuxing Road 100, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China. · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group, Dengcai Road 1008, Hangzhou, 310023, Zhejiang, China. · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Jurong West, Singapore, 639798, Singapore, Singapore.

  49. Classifying daily activities needs posture, reconstructing them needs motion

    Jul 14, 2026Arefeh Farahmandi, Gunnar BlohmSkeleton-Based Action RecognitionHuman Activity Recognition

    Centre for Neuroscience Studies Queen’s University Kingson, Ontario, Canada

  50. Real-time Generation of Listener Nodding via Prediction of Kinematic Parameters for Avatar Dialogue Systems

    Jul 14, 2026Kazushi Kato, Koji Inoue, Taiga Mori +2Spoken Dialogue SystemsHuman Motion Generation

    Kyoto University Japan

  51. GNOCHI: Generative Neural mOdel for Close Human-Human Interactions

    Jul 11, 2026Gonzalo Gómez-Nogales, Marc Comino-Trinidad, Andrés Casado-Elvira +1Human Motion GenerationHuman-Human-Object Interaction Generation

    Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.

  52. Neural Motion Blending Across Arbitrary Character Topologies

    Jul 11, 2026Luca Cazzola, Giulia Martinelli, Nicola ConciHuman Motion Generation

    University of Trento, Trento 38123, Italy · CNIT, Trento 38123, Italy

  53. Learn2Chat: Rethinking Dyadic Talking Heads via Interaction-Modulated Monologic Priors

    Jul 11, 2026Zikai Huang, Siyue Chen, Xuemiao Xu +4Disentangled Representation LearningHuman Motion Generation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangdong, China · School of Design, South China University of Technology, Guangdong, China · Guangdong Engineering Center for Large Model and GenAI Technology +2

  54. ARDY: Autoregressive Diffusion with Hybrid Representation for Interactive Human Motion Generation

    Jul 9, 2026Kaifeng Zhao, Mathis Petrovich, Haotian Zhang +3Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    NVIDIA, Switzerland · ETH Zürich, Switzerland · NVIDIA, USA

  55. fog: Expressing Motion and Emotion through Function Composition of AI-Generated Code

    Jul 8, 2026Vivian Liu, Lydia ChiltonCode GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Columbia University New York, USA

  56. GIRAF: Towards Generalizable Human Interactions with Articulated Objects

    Jul 8, 2026Xiaohan Zhang, Sebastian Starke, Alexander Winkler +3HOI GenerationText-to-Motion Generation

    Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen · Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus · Meta Reality Labs Research

  57. Generating Personalized Lower-Limb Kinematics Across Walking Speeds Using Subject-Conditioned Diffusion

    Jul 8, 2026Diya Dinesh, Adrian Krieger, Changseob Song +3Gait AnalysisHuman Motion Generation

    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA · Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

  58. Towards Real-World Wearable Motion Reconstruction

    Jul 8, 2026Andrea Boscolo Camiletto, Rishabh Dabral, Eduardo Alvarado +33D ReconstructionHuman Motion Generation

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany · Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and AI, Germany · Google, Switzerland

  59. Prior-First, Condition-Second: Scalable and Controllable Hand Motion Completion

    Jul 7, 2026Mingyi Shi, Xuelin Chen, Taku KomuraHuman Motion Generation

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Adobe Research, London, UK

  60. DeSeG: Decoupling Semantic Intent and Geometric Constraints for Physically Plausible Human-Scene Interaction

    Jul 7, 2026Jiakun Li, Zhe Li, Wenqiang Wu +4Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    1Southern University of Science and Technology · 1Wenqiang Wu1 · 1Zheng Chang1 +3