A list of awesome human motion generation papers. Continuing to be updated!!!
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updated Sep 28, 2025
I noticed that some researchers have compiled excellent summaries of motion generation papers. I recommend referring to the following collections:
Together, these summaries cover nearly all motion generation papers.
This repository will no longer be updated.
A list of awesome human motion generation papers. Continuing to be updated!!!
⭐️ indicates that the paper introduces a new dataset.
MultiAct: Long-Term 3D Human Motion Generation from Multiple Action Labels, AAAI 2023 | Code
Action-conditioned On-demand Motion Generation, MM 2022 | Project | Code
Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Synthesis with Transformer VAE, ICCV 2021 | Project | Code
BABEL: Bodies, Action and Behavior with English Labels, CVPR 2021 | Project | Code ⭐️
Action2Motion: Conditioned Generation of 3D Human Motions, MM 2020 | Project | Code
MotionLCM: Real-time Controllable Motion Generation via Latent Consistency Model, ECCV 2024 | Project | Code
AvatarGPT: All-in-One Framework for Motion Understanding, Planning, Generation and Beyond, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
MoMask: Generative Masked Modeling of 3D Human Motions, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
HumanTOMATO: Text-aligned Whole-body Motion Generation, ICML 2024 | Project | Code
MotionGPT: Human Motion as Foreign Language, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code
FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editing, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code
Motion-X: A Large-scale 3D Expressive Whole-body Human Motion Dataset, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
ReMoDiffuse: Retrieval-Augmented Motion Diffusion Model, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
UDE: A Unified Driving Engine for Human Motion Generation, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
T2M-GPT: Generating Human Motion from Textual Descriptions with Discrete Representations, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Executing your Commands via Motion Diffusion in Latent Space, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
SINC: Spatial Composition of 3D Human Motions for Simultaneous Action Generation, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
FLAME: Free-form Language-based Motion Synthesis & Editing, AAAI 2023 | Project | Code
Human Motion Diffusion Model, ICLR 2023 | Project | Code
MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation with Diffusion Model, ArXiv 2022 | Project | Code
TEACH: Temporal Action Composition for 3D Humans, 3DV 2022 | Project | Code
TEMOS: Generating Diverse Human Motions from Textual Descriptions, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
TM2T: Stochastic and Tokenized Modeling for the Reciprocal Generation of 3D Human Motions and Texts, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
MotionCLIP: Exposing Human Motion Generation to CLIP Space, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
Generating Diverse and Natural 3D Human Motions from Text, CVPR 2022 | Project | Code ⭐️
AMASS: Archive of Motion Capture As Surface Shapes, ICCV 2019 | Project | Code ⭐️
Synthesis of Compositional Animations from Textual Descriptions, ICCV 2021 | Code
Language2Pose: Natural Language Grounded Pose Forecasting, 3DV 2019 | Project | Code
Emotional Speech-driven 3D Body Animation via Disentangled Latent Diffusion, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Listen, Denoise, Action! Audio-Driven Motion Synthesis with Diffusion Models, TOG 2023 | Project | Code
Music-Driven Group Choreography, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
EDGE: Editable Dance Generation From Music, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Generating Holistic 3D Human Motion from Speech, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
DanceFormer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with Parametric Motion Transformer, AAAI 2022 | Code
Audio2Gestures: Generating Diverse Gestures from Speech Audio with Conditional Variational Autoencoders, ICCV 2021 | Code
Dancing to Music, NeurIPS 2019 | Code
CORE4D: A 4D Human-Object-Human Interaction Dataset for Collaborative Object REarrangement, ArXiv 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
Full-Body Articulated Human-Object Interaction, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
IMos: Intent-Driven Full-Body Motion Synthesis for Human-Object Interactions, Eurographics 2023 | Project | Code
Object Motion Guided Human Motion Synthesis, SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
SAGA: Stochastic Whole-Body Grasping With Contact, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
COUCH: Towards Controllable Human-Chair Interactions, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code ⭐️
BEHAVE: Dataset and Method for Tracking Human Object Interactions, CVPR 2022 | Project ⭐️
GOAL: Generating 4D Whole-Body Motion for Hand-Object Grasping, CVPR 2022 | Project | Code
Learning to Sit: Synthesizing Human-Chair Interactions via Hierarchical Control, AAAI 2021 | Project
GRAB: A Dataset of Whole-Body Human Grasping of Objects, ECCV 2020 | Project | Code ⭐️
Scaling Up Dynamic Human-Scene Interaction Modeling, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
Synthesizing Diverse Human Motions in 3D Indoor Scenes, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
Narrator: Towards Natural Control of Human-Scene Interaction Generation via Relationship Reasoning, ICCV 2023 | Project
CIRCLE: Capture in Rich Contextual Environments, CVPR 2023 | Project ⭐️
Generating Continual Human Motion in Diverse 3D Scenes, 3DV 2023
Diffusion-based Generation, Optimization, and Planning in 3D Scenes, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Towards Diverse and Natural Scene-aware 3D Human Motion Synthesis, CVPR 2022
Scene-aware Generative Network for Human Motion Synthesis, CVPR 2021
Synthesizing Long-Term 3D Human Motion and Interaction in 3D Scenes, CVPR 2021 | Project | Code
Stochastic Scene-Aware Motion Prediction, ICCV 2021 | Project | Code
Long-term Human Motion Prediction with Scene Context, ECCV 2020 | Project | Code ⭐️
CrowdMoGen: Zero-Shot Text-Driven Collective Motion Generation, ArXiv 2024 | Project | Code
ReGenNet: Towards Human Action-Reaction Synthesis, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Inter-X: Towards Versatile Human-Human Interaction Analysis, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
InterGen: Diffusion-based Multi-human Motion Generation under Complex Interactions, IJCV 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
Generating Human Interaction Motions in Scenes with Text Control, ECCV 2024 | Project | Code
Controllable Human-Object Interaction Synthesis, ECCV 2024 | Project
CG-HOI: Contact-Guided 3D Human-Object Interaction Generation, CVPR 2024 | Project
Generating Human Motion in 3D Scenes from Text Descriptions, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Move as You Say, Interact as You Can: Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
HOI-Diff: Text-Driven Synthesis of 3D Human-Object Interactions using Diffusion Models, ArXiv 2023 | Project | Code
HUMANISE: Language-conditioned Human Motion Generation in 3D Scenes, NeurIPS 2022 | Project | Code ⭐️
Plan, Posture and Go: Towards Open-World Text-to-Motion Generation, CVPR 2024 | Project
Programmable Motion Generation for Open-Set Motion Control Tasks, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
OMG: Towards Open-vocabulary Motion Generation via Mixture of Controllers, CVPR 2024 | Project
Being Comes from Not-being: Open-vocabulary Text-to-Motion Generation with Wordless Training, CVPR 2023
CooHOI: Learning Cooperative Human-Object Interaction with Manipulated Object Dynamics, ArXiv 2024
Anyskill: Learning openvocabulary physical skill for interactive agents, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Unified Human-Scene Interaction via Prompted Chain-of-Contacts, ICLR 2024 | Project | Code
Synthesizing Physically Plausible Human Motions in 3D Scenes, 3DV 2024 | Project | Code
Synthesizing Physical Character-Scene Interactions, SIGGRAPH 2023 | Project
PhysHOI: Physics-Based Imitation of Dynamic Human-Object Interaction, ArXiv 2023 | Project | Code
InsActor: Instruction-driven Physics-based Characters, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code
ASE: Large-Scale Reusable Adversarial Skill Embeddings for Physically Simulated Characters, SIGGRAPH 2022 | Project | Code
AMP: Adversarial Motion Priors for Stylized Physics-Based Character Control, SIGGRAPH 2021 | Project | Code
DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills, SIGGRAPH 2018 | Project | Code
Interactive Character Control with Auto-Regressive Motion Diffusion Models, SIGGRAPH 2024 | Project | Code
WANDR: Intention-guided Human Motion Generation, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
MAS: Multi-view Ancestral Sampling for 3D motion generation using 2D diffusion, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Optimizing Diffusion Noise Can Serve As Universal Motion Priors, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
GMD: Controllable Human Motion Synthesis via Guided Diffusion Models, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
PhysDiff: Physics-Guided Human Motion Diffusion Model, ICCV 2023 | Project
Trace and Pace: Controllable Pedestrian Animation via Guided Trajectory Diffusion, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Please feel free to pull requests to add papers. I will merge your PR as soon as possible once it is checked.
This repository is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via [email protected].
A list of awesome human motion generation papers. Continuing to be updated!!!
39
4 commits
updated Sep 28, 2025
I noticed that some researchers have compiled excellent summaries of motion generation papers. I recommend referring to the following collections:
Together, these summaries cover nearly all motion generation papers.
This repository will no longer be updated.
A list of awesome human motion generation papers. Continuing to be updated!!!
⭐️ indicates that the paper introduces a new dataset.
MultiAct: Long-Term 3D Human Motion Generation from Multiple Action Labels, AAAI 2023 | Code
Action-conditioned On-demand Motion Generation, MM 2022 | Project | Code
Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Synthesis with Transformer VAE, ICCV 2021 | Project | Code
BABEL: Bodies, Action and Behavior with English Labels, CVPR 2021 | Project | Code ⭐️
Action2Motion: Conditioned Generation of 3D Human Motions, MM 2020 | Project | Code
MotionLCM: Real-time Controllable Motion Generation via Latent Consistency Model, ECCV 2024 | Project | Code
AvatarGPT: All-in-One Framework for Motion Understanding, Planning, Generation and Beyond, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
MoMask: Generative Masked Modeling of 3D Human Motions, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
HumanTOMATO: Text-aligned Whole-body Motion Generation, ICML 2024 | Project | Code
MotionGPT: Human Motion as Foreign Language, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code
FineMoGen: Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Motion Generation and Editing, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code
Motion-X: A Large-scale 3D Expressive Whole-body Human Motion Dataset, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
ReMoDiffuse: Retrieval-Augmented Motion Diffusion Model, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
UDE: A Unified Driving Engine for Human Motion Generation, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
T2M-GPT: Generating Human Motion from Textual Descriptions with Discrete Representations, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Executing your Commands via Motion Diffusion in Latent Space, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
SINC: Spatial Composition of 3D Human Motions for Simultaneous Action Generation, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
FLAME: Free-form Language-based Motion Synthesis & Editing, AAAI 2023 | Project | Code
Human Motion Diffusion Model, ICLR 2023 | Project | Code
MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation with Diffusion Model, ArXiv 2022 | Project | Code
TEACH: Temporal Action Composition for 3D Humans, 3DV 2022 | Project | Code
TEMOS: Generating Diverse Human Motions from Textual Descriptions, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
TM2T: Stochastic and Tokenized Modeling for the Reciprocal Generation of 3D Human Motions and Texts, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
MotionCLIP: Exposing Human Motion Generation to CLIP Space, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
Generating Diverse and Natural 3D Human Motions from Text, CVPR 2022 | Project | Code ⭐️
AMASS: Archive of Motion Capture As Surface Shapes, ICCV 2019 | Project | Code ⭐️
Synthesis of Compositional Animations from Textual Descriptions, ICCV 2021 | Code
Language2Pose: Natural Language Grounded Pose Forecasting, 3DV 2019 | Project | Code
Emotional Speech-driven 3D Body Animation via Disentangled Latent Diffusion, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Listen, Denoise, Action! Audio-Driven Motion Synthesis with Diffusion Models, TOG 2023 | Project | Code
Music-Driven Group Choreography, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
EDGE: Editable Dance Generation From Music, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Generating Holistic 3D Human Motion from Speech, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
DanceFormer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with Parametric Motion Transformer, AAAI 2022 | Code
Audio2Gestures: Generating Diverse Gestures from Speech Audio with Conditional Variational Autoencoders, ICCV 2021 | Code
Dancing to Music, NeurIPS 2019 | Code
CORE4D: A 4D Human-Object-Human Interaction Dataset for Collaborative Object REarrangement, ArXiv 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
Full-Body Articulated Human-Object Interaction, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
IMos: Intent-Driven Full-Body Motion Synthesis for Human-Object Interactions, Eurographics 2023 | Project | Code
Object Motion Guided Human Motion Synthesis, SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 | Project | Code ⭐️
SAGA: Stochastic Whole-Body Grasping With Contact, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code
COUCH: Towards Controllable Human-Chair Interactions, ECCV 2022 | Project | Code ⭐️
BEHAVE: Dataset and Method for Tracking Human Object Interactions, CVPR 2022 | Project ⭐️
GOAL: Generating 4D Whole-Body Motion for Hand-Object Grasping, CVPR 2022 | Project | Code
Learning to Sit: Synthesizing Human-Chair Interactions via Hierarchical Control, AAAI 2021 | Project
GRAB: A Dataset of Whole-Body Human Grasping of Objects, ECCV 2020 | Project | Code ⭐️
Scaling Up Dynamic Human-Scene Interaction Modeling, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
Synthesizing Diverse Human Motions in 3D Indoor Scenes, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
Narrator: Towards Natural Control of Human-Scene Interaction Generation via Relationship Reasoning, ICCV 2023 | Project
CIRCLE: Capture in Rich Contextual Environments, CVPR 2023 | Project ⭐️
Generating Continual Human Motion in Diverse 3D Scenes, 3DV 2023
Diffusion-based Generation, Optimization, and Planning in 3D Scenes, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Towards Diverse and Natural Scene-aware 3D Human Motion Synthesis, CVPR 2022
Scene-aware Generative Network for Human Motion Synthesis, CVPR 2021
Synthesizing Long-Term 3D Human Motion and Interaction in 3D Scenes, CVPR 2021 | Project | Code
Stochastic Scene-Aware Motion Prediction, ICCV 2021 | Project | Code
Long-term Human Motion Prediction with Scene Context, ECCV 2020 | Project | Code ⭐️
CrowdMoGen: Zero-Shot Text-Driven Collective Motion Generation, ArXiv 2024 | Project | Code
ReGenNet: Towards Human Action-Reaction Synthesis, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Inter-X: Towards Versatile Human-Human Interaction Analysis, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
InterGen: Diffusion-based Multi-human Motion Generation under Complex Interactions, IJCV 2024 | Project | Code ⭐️
Generating Human Interaction Motions in Scenes with Text Control, ECCV 2024 | Project | Code
Controllable Human-Object Interaction Synthesis, ECCV 2024 | Project
CG-HOI: Contact-Guided 3D Human-Object Interaction Generation, CVPR 2024 | Project
Generating Human Motion in 3D Scenes from Text Descriptions, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Move as You Say, Interact as You Can: Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
HOI-Diff: Text-Driven Synthesis of 3D Human-Object Interactions using Diffusion Models, ArXiv 2023 | Project | Code
HUMANISE: Language-conditioned Human Motion Generation in 3D Scenes, NeurIPS 2022 | Project | Code ⭐️
Plan, Posture and Go: Towards Open-World Text-to-Motion Generation, CVPR 2024 | Project
Programmable Motion Generation for Open-Set Motion Control Tasks, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
OMG: Towards Open-vocabulary Motion Generation via Mixture of Controllers, CVPR 2024 | Project
Being Comes from Not-being: Open-vocabulary Text-to-Motion Generation with Wordless Training, CVPR 2023
CooHOI: Learning Cooperative Human-Object Interaction with Manipulated Object Dynamics, ArXiv 2024
Anyskill: Learning openvocabulary physical skill for interactive agents, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Unified Human-Scene Interaction via Prompted Chain-of-Contacts, ICLR 2024 | Project | Code
Synthesizing Physically Plausible Human Motions in 3D Scenes, 3DV 2024 | Project | Code
Synthesizing Physical Character-Scene Interactions, SIGGRAPH 2023 | Project
PhysHOI: Physics-Based Imitation of Dynamic Human-Object Interaction, ArXiv 2023 | Project | Code
InsActor: Instruction-driven Physics-based Characters, NeurIPS 2023 | Project | Code
ASE: Large-Scale Reusable Adversarial Skill Embeddings for Physically Simulated Characters, SIGGRAPH 2022 | Project | Code
AMP: Adversarial Motion Priors for Stylized Physics-Based Character Control, SIGGRAPH 2021 | Project | Code
DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills, SIGGRAPH 2018 | Project | Code
Interactive Character Control with Auto-Regressive Motion Diffusion Models, SIGGRAPH 2024 | Project | Code
WANDR: Intention-guided Human Motion Generation, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
MAS: Multi-view Ancestral Sampling for 3D motion generation using 2D diffusion, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
Optimizing Diffusion Noise Can Serve As Universal Motion Priors, CVPR 2024 | Project | Code
GMD: Controllable Human Motion Synthesis via Guided Diffusion Models, ICCV 2023 | Project | Code
PhysDiff: Physics-Guided Human Motion Diffusion Model, ICCV 2023 | Project
Trace and Pace: Controllable Pedestrian Animation via Guided Trajectory Diffusion, CVPR 2023 | Project | Code
Please feel free to pull requests to add papers. I will merge your PR as soon as possible once it is checked.
This repository is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via [email protected].