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Hierarchical Approaches for Generating Stylistic Human Motions from Audio

2025· dissertation· en· W7028960298 on OpenAlexfundno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueMacSphere (McMaster University) · 2025
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicHuman Motion and Animation
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMcMaster University
KeywordsGestureMotion (physics)DanceMotion captureFocus (optics)Gesture recognitionRange (aeronautics)RangingVirtual actor
DOInot available

Abstract

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Generating realistic and plausible human motions driven by audio has been explored for decades and has a wide range of applications in real life, such as virtual reality, gaming, films, and human-computer interaction. However, the spatiotemporal complexity of human motion and the requirement for generated movements to align with audio features pose significant challenges to motion synthesis algorithms. In this thesis, we first explore the approaches to human motion learning and synthesis, with a particular focus on data-driven dance and gesture generation. Then we propose a two-level framework to synthesize dance and gesture motions based on the music and speech input respectively, where the high-level motion planner models the overall structure of the motion sequence and the low-level implementer incorporates audio influences to generate detailed movements with nuances. Moreover, we introduce a motion editing module that refines generated dance. Building on this, we propose a method for mapping user inputs to dance style, giving users further control over the generated dance, as well as a data-driven approach for mapping speech audio to gesture style. Extensive experiments conducted on two datasets demonstrate the superior effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed method in generating diverse, high-quality dance and gesture motions that are well-synchronized with audio inputs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.835
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.183 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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