GCDance: Genre-Controlled Music-Driven 3D Full Body Dance Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18309v3
• Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:12:31 GMT
• Title: GCDance: Genre-Controlled Music-Driven 3D Full Body Dance Generation
• Authors: Xinran Liu, Xu Dong, Shenbin Qian, Diptesh Kanojia, Wenwu Wang, Zhenhua Feng,
• Abstract summary: GCDance is a framework for genre-specific 3D full-body dance generation conditioned on music and descriptive text.<n>We develop a text-based control mechanism that maps input prompts, explicit genre labels or free-form descriptive text, into genre-specific control signals.<n>To balance the objectives of extracting text-genre information and maintaining high-quality generation results, we propose a novel multi-task optimization strategy.
• Score: 30.028340528694432
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Music-driven dance generation is a challenging task as it requires strict adherence to genre-specific choreography while ensuring physically realistic and precisely synchronized dance sequences with the music's beats and rhythm. Although significant progress has been made in music-conditioned dance generation, most existing methods struggle to convey specific stylistic attributes in generated dance. To bridge this gap, we propose a diffusion-based framework for genre-specific 3D full-body dance generation, conditioned on both music and descriptive text. To effectively incorporate genre information, we develop a text-based control mechanism that maps input prompts, either explicit genre labels or free-form descriptive text, into genre-specific control signals, enabling precise and controllable text-guided generation of genre-consistent dance motions. Furthermore, to enhance the alignment between music and textual conditions, we leverage the features of a music foundation model, facilitating coherent and semantically aligned dance synthesis. Last, to balance the objectives of extracting text-genre information and maintaining high-quality generation results, we propose a novel multi-task optimization strategy. This effectively balances competing factors such as physical realism, spatial accuracy, and text classification, significantly improving the overall quality of the generated sequences. Extensive experimental results obtained on the FineDance and AIST++ datasets demonstrate the superiority of GCDance over the existing state-of-the-art approaches.

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