We study 4D generation to synthesize temporally coherent sequences of 3D geometry for animation and content creation. In contrast to existing SDS-based optimization methods and video-driven animation approaches, we adopt a skeleton-driven animation framework aligned with standard industrial pipelines, which enables explicit control and editing.
arXiv:2605. 13838v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video-guided 3D animation holds immense potential for content creation, offering intuitive and precise control over dynamic assets.
By Zijie Wu, Lixin Xu, Puhua Jiang, Sicong Liu, Chunchao Guo, Xiang Bai
arXiv:2608.18734v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: 4D understanding and reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied AI agents operating in dynamic physical environments. However, existing vis...
By Kumal Hewagamage, Isuranga Senavirathne, Sasika Amarasinghe, Hasitha Gallella, Dulanga Weerakoon, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Ranga Rodrigo
arXiv:2608.20699v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Animating articulated 3D meshes via text requires satisfying strict kinematic constraints, modeling causal interactions between parts, and achieving in...
By Chunyu Zou, Peng Dai, Yi-Hua Huang, Ze Yuan, Jingwei Huang, Yeming Yao, Xiaojuan Qi
The paper introduces a two-stage framework to incorporate the animation principle of exaggeration into motion generative models. During training, it fine‑tunes pre‑trained text‑to‑motion models on a curated exaggeration dataset. At inference, it uses a mathematical formulation based on dynamic movement primitives to guide diffusion and flow‑matching models toward more expressive, exaggerated motions while maintaining physical plausibility and the original motion intent.
By Amirhossein Zamani, Arianna Rampini, Bruno Roy
arXiv:2503.06897v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Text-to-motion generation is a rapidly growing field at the nexus of multimodal learning and computer graphics, enabling flexible and cost-effectiv...
By Xingzu Zhan, Genpei Zhang, Chen Xie, Honghang Chen, Haoran Sun, Xiaochun Mai
UniMate is a unified foundation model that generates articulated motion for any skeleton from a rigged 3D asset and a text prompt, eliminating the need for test‑time optimization or per‑skeleton retraining. It uses a topology‑aware diffusion transformer that incorporates skeletal topology through graph‑aware attention bias, spectral rotary position embedding, and a global topological conditioner. Trained on the newly curated UniML3D dataset of 13,006 diverse motion sequences, UniMate outperforms existing baselines in quality, generalization, and efficiency, and supports zero‑shot cross‑topology transfer, in‑betweening, expansion, and text‑guided editing.
By Linzhan Mou, Jiahui Lei, Zhiyang Dou, Chenyue Cai, Chaoyue Song, Adam Finkelstein, Szymon Rusinkiewicz
Real-world spatial intelligence requires agents to understand scenes from continuous video streams, where objects move, persist, disappear, and reappear over time. While recent spatial foundation models have enabled generalizable feed-forward 3D reconstruction, most streaming methods remain geometry-centric and lack temporally consistent object-level understanding.
arXiv:2607. 01766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly used to translate natural language into 3D scenes in a procedural way, but existing systems focus on static output.
By Chunjiang Liu, Xiaoyuan Wang, Haoyu Chen, Yizhou Zhao, Ming-Hsuan Yang, L\'aszl\'o A. Jeni
arXiv:2608.31113v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce BLARM, a feed-forward method for video-driven 3D mesh animation. Given a monocular video and a static object mesh, BLARM predicts a tempor...
By Pradyumn Goyal, Yizhak Ben-Shabat, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Haomiao Jiang, Snehasish Mukherjee, Kyle Spence, Mark Stauber, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Yunze Zeng
Kirin is a new framework that reconstructs 3D animal motion from in‑the‑wild videos, learns motion priors at scale, and generates realistic motion conditioned on text and image. It introduces AiM3D, the first large‑scale dataset of aligned video‑text‑motion tuples for quadruped animals, and uses an off‑the‑shelf image‑to‑3D model to automatically rig and animate 3D meshes with the generated motion. The framework and dataset provide a foundation for large‑scale, text and image‑conditioned animal motion generation and animation.
By Brian Nlong Zhao, Zhuoyang Pan, James M. Rehg, Jiajun Wu, Shangzhe Wu
arXiv:2607. 12752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent advances in 3D generation have enabled impressive visual synthesis, existing methods often rely on 2D diffusion supervision without explicit mechanisms for geometric consistency, leading to spatial hallucinations such as duplicated structures and misaligned geometry.
By Hongbo Wang, Huaibo Huang, Jie Cao, Jin Liu, Haoyang Tong, Ran He