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To develop a generative framework capable of synthesizing long-term, kinematically complex 3D dance motions tightly synchronized to musical rhythms.

June 28, 2022Open Access

DanceFormer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with Parametric Motion Transformer

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BLBuyu LiChinese University of Hong Kong YZYongchi ZhaoMianyang Normal University SZShi ZhelunBeihang University

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Computational framework demonstrates improved 3D dance synthesis from music using a two-stage transformer pipeline, indicating enhanced kinematic realism and alignment for digital animation.

Key Points

To develop a generative framework capable of synthesizing long-term, kinematically complex 3D dance motions tightly synchronized to musical rhythms.
Formulated a two-stage architecture (DanceFormer) utilizing cascading kinematics-enhanced transformers (DanTrans) to first predict beat-aligned key poses and subsequently interpolate in-between parametric motion curves.
Curated PhantomDance, a large-scale 3D dance dataset manually annotated by professional animators with key poses and parametric curves rather than raw motion capture.
Demonstrated superior qualitative and quantitative performance in motion fluency, kinematic complexity, and rhythmic alignment compared to baseline sequence-generation models.
Achieved native workflow compatibility with industrial 3D animation software by outputting editable keyframes and curve parameters.

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Li et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0932b84c1e2db30bd2646d https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i2.20014

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Computational framework demonstrates improved 3D dance synthesis from music using a two-stage transformer pipeline, indicating enhanced kinematic realism and alignment for digital animation.

DanceFormer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with Parametric Motion Transformer

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DanceFormer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with Parametric Motion Transformer

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