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Video Motion Graphs

arXiv 2503.20218 ↗First posted 26 Mar 2025cs.CVcited by 5

On the map: Diffusion models → Video generation

Abstract (arXiv)

We present Video Motion Graphs, a system designed to generate realistic human motion videos. Using a reference video and conditional signals such as music or motion tags, the system synthesizes new videos by first retrieving video clips with gestures matching the conditions and then generating interpolation frames to seamlessly connect clip boundaries. The core of our approach is HMInterp, a robust Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) model that enables seamless interpolation of discontinuous frames, even for complex motion scenarios like dancing. HMInterp i) employs a dual-branch interpolation approach, combining a Motion Diffusion Model for human skeleton motion interpolation with a diffusion-based video frame interpolation model for final frame generation. ii) adopts condition progressive training to effectively leverage identity strong and weak conditions, such as images and pose. These designs ensure both high video texture quality and accurate motion trajectory. Results show that our Video Motion Graphs outperforms existing generative- and retrieval-based methods for multi-modal conditioned human motion video generation. Project page can be found at https://h-liu1997.github.io/Video-Motion-Graphs/

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Video generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 60 of its 73 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Mar 2025.

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60 of 73 references.

Closest ancestors · 14

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  1. 2024CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer12 Aug
  2. 2024UniAnimate: Taming Unified Video Diffusion Models for Consistent Human Image Animation3 Jun
  3. 2024Video Interpolation with Diffusion Models1 Apr
  4. 2024Champ: Controllable and Consistent Human Image Animation with 3D Parametric Guidance21 Mar
  5. 2024VideoCrafter2: Overcoming Data Limitations for High-Quality Video Diffusion Models17 Jan
  6. 2023Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation28 Nov
  7. 2023MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Model27 Nov
  8. 2023Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets25 Nov
  9. 2023VideoCrafter1: Open Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation30 Oct
  10. 2023DynamiCrafter: Animating Open-domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors18 Oct
  11. 2023AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning10 Jul
  12. 2023Align your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models18 Apr
2 more
  1. 2023LDMVFI: Video Frame Interpolation with Latent Diffusion Models16 Mar
  2. 2023Human Motion Diffusion as a Generative Prior2 Mar

Other references · 46

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  5. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 5,466
  6. 2021Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generationcited by 4,276
  7. 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,094
  8. 2017Quo Vadis, Action Recognition? A New Model and the Kinetics Datasetcited by 3,259
  9. 2019Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face, and Body from a Single Imagecited by 1,600
  10. 2022CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformerscited by 973
  11. 2020A Lip Sync Expert Is All You Need for Speech to Lip Generation In The Wildcited by 669
  12. 2017Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flowcited by 612
34 more
  1. 2022MotionCLIP: Exposing Human Motion Generation to CLIP Spacecited by 406
  2. 2017Super SloMo: High Quality Estimation of Multiple Intermediate Frames for Video Interpolationcited by 321
  3. 2018Everybody Dance Nowcited by 313
  4. 2020Softmax Splatting for Video Frame Interpolationcited by 276
  5. 2023Motion-X: A Large-scale 3D Expressive Whole-body Human Motion Datasetcited by 220
  6. 2020Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolationcited by 211
  7. 2017Video Frame Synthesis using Deep Voxel Flowcited by 209
  8. 2024MimicMotion: High-Quality Human Motion Video Generation with Confidence-aware Pose Guidancecited by 196
  9. 2022Generating Holistic 3D Human Motion from Speechcited by 180
  10. 2022BEAT: A Large-Scale Semantic and Emotional Multi-Modal Dataset for Conversational Gestures Synthesiscited by 177
  11. 2023AMT: All-Pairs Multi-Field Transforms for Efficient Frame Interpolationcited by 177
  12. 2018Towards End-to-End Prosody Transfer for Expressive Speech Synthesis with Tacotroncited by 171
  13. 2018Context-aware Synthesis for Video Frame Interpolationcited by 153
  14. 2022FILM: Frame Interpolation for Large Motioncited by 149
  15. 2021XVFI: eXtreme Video Frame Interpolationcited by 123
  16. 2021Video Frame Interpolation Transformercited by 122
  17. 2020BMBC:Bilateral Motion Estimation with Bilateral Cost Volume for Video Interpolationcited by 117
  18. 2023MagicPose: Realistic Human Poses and Facial Expressions Retargeting with Identity-aware Diffusioncited by 115
  19. 2022IFRNet: Intermediate Feature Refine Network for Efficient Frame Interpolationcited by 107
  20. 2021Asymmetric Bilateral Motion Estimation for Video Frame Interpolationcited by 101
  21. 2023EMAGE: Towards Unified Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation via Expressive Masked Audio Gesture Modelingcited by 101
  22. 2020Learning to Generate Diverse Dance Motions with Transformercited by 85
  23. 2024ToonCrafter: Generative Cartoon Interpolationcited by 68
  24. 2023Text2Performer: Text-Driven Human Video Generationcited by 53
  25. 2024VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesiscited by 48
  26. 2024CyberHost: Taming Audio-driven Avatar Diffusion Model with Region Codebook Attentioncited by 38
  27. 2021ST-MFNet: A Spatio-Temporal Multi-Flow Network for Frame Interpolationcited by 34
  28. 2024Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation via Motion-Decoupled Diffusion Modelcited by 34
  29. 2024TANGO: Co-Speech Gesture Video Reenactment with Hierarchical Audio Motion Embedding and Diffusion Interpolationcited by 32
  30. 2022Optimizing Video Prediction via Video Frame Interpolationcited by 28
  31. 2024Make-Your-Anchor: A Diffusion-based 2D Avatar Generation Frameworkcited by 26
  32. 2022Audio-driven Neural Gesture Reenactment with Video Motion Graphscited by 18
  33. 2024Dance Any Beat: Blending Beats with Visuals in Dance Video Generationcited by 14
  34. 2024ActAnywhere: Subject-Aware Video Background Generationcited by 8

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  1. 2024Towards motion from video diffusion models
  2. 2024Move-in-2D: 2D-Conditioned Human Motion Generation
  3. 2024ViMo: Generating Motions from Casual Videos
  4. 2023Motion-Conditioned Diffusion Model for Controllable Video Synthesis
  5. 2025Generating Human Motion Videos using a Cascaded Text-to-Video Framework
  6. 2024Human Motion Synthesis_ A Diffusion Approach for Motion Stitching and In-Betweening
  7. 2025DANCER: Dance ANimation via Condition Enhancement and Rendering with diffusion model
  8. 2023Make Pixels Dance: High-Dynamic Video Generation