Awesome-Motion-Style-Transfer

A collection of papers about motion style transfer, motion stylization, or stylized motion generation.

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Outline

• 0. Survey
• 1. Motion Style Transfer
• 2. Multi-modal Motion Stylization
• 3. Stylized Motion Generation

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0. Survey

Paper	Venue	Code/Project Link
Motion Style Transfer: Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions	CASA 2025

1. Motion Style Transfer

Inputs: content (motion) + style (reference motion)

• Whole-body-level

Paper	Venue	Code/Project Link
MorphoStyle: Motion Style Transfer with Morphology Control	BMVC 2026	code
Motion Style Slider: Endpoint-Supervised Continuous Style Control for Human Motion Diffusion	ECCV 2026	webpage
STyMo: Fast and Controllable Few-Shot Motion Style Transfer	ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH 2026)	code
VQ-Style: Disentangling Style and Content in Motion with Residual Quantized Representations	EG 2026
AStF: Motion Style Transfer via Adaptive Statistics Fusor	ACM MM 2025	code
Decoupling Contact for Fine-Grained Motion Style Transfer	SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
MotionLab: Unified Human Motion Generation and Editing via the Motion-Condition-Motion Paradigm	ICCV 2025	webpage code
Generative Human Motion Stylization in Latent Space	ICLR 2024	code webpage
Arbitrary Motion Style Transfer with Multi-Condition Motion Latent Diffusion Model	CVPR 2024	code
MoST: Motion Style Transformer between Diverse Action Contents	CVPR 2024	code
Scalable Motion Style Transfer with Constrained Diffusion Generation	AAAI 2024
Diffusion-based Human Motion Style Transfer with Semantic Guidance	CGF (SCA 2024)	code
SMCD: High Realism Motion Style Transfer via Mamba-based Diffusion	arxiv 24.05
FineStyle: Semantic-Aware Fine-Grained Motion Style Transfer with Dual Interactive-Flow Fusion	IEEE TVCG 2023	code
Style-ERD: Responsive and Coherent Online Motion Style Transfer	CVPR 2022	code webpage
Unpaired Motion Style Transfer with Motion-oriented Projection Flow Network	ICME 2022
Real-Time Style Modelling of Human Locomotion via Feature-Wise Transformations and Local Motion Phases	CGIT 2022	code
Diverse Motion Stylization for Multiple Style Domains via Spatial-Temporal Graph-Based Generative Model	CGIT 2021	code
Autoregressive Stylized Motion Synthesis with Generative Flow	CVPR 2021	code
Unpaired Motion Style Transfer from Video to Animation	ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH 2020)	code webpage
Few-shot Learning of Homogeneous Human Locomotion Styles	CGF 2018
Fast Neural Style Transfer for Motion Data	CGA 2017
Spectral Style Transfer for Human Motion between Independent Actions	ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH 2016)
A Deep Learning Framework For Character Motion Synthesis and Editing	ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH 2016)	webpage
Realtime Style Transfer for Unlabeled Heterogeneous Human Motion	ACM TOG 2015

• Body-part-level

Paper	Venue	Code/Project Link
MoSAIC: Aligned Intervention Supervision for Part-Local Motion Style Transfer	arxiv 26.07	code
Motion Puzzle: Arbitrary Motion Style Transfer by Body Part	ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH 2022)	code

2. Multi-modal Motion Stylization

Inputs: content (motion) + style (text / reference motion / image / video)

Paper	Venue	Code/Project Link
Flexible Motion Stylization via Multi-modality Latent Diffusion Model	TPAMI 2026
Generative Motion Stylization of Cross-structure Characters within Canonical Motion Space	ACM MM 2024

3. Stylized Motion Generation

Inputs: content (text) + style (text / reference motion)

Paper	Venue	Code/Project Link
Depth-Adaptive Injection for Stylized Text-to-Motion	TVCG 2026
Flexible Motion Generation from Language and Style References	PG 2026
Stylized Text-to-Motion Generation via Hypernetwork-Driven Low-Rank Adaptation	SIGGRAPH 2026	code webpage
Stylized Text-to-Motion Synthesis Via Multi-Condition Latent Diffusion	ICASSP 2026
Dance Like a Chicken: Low-Rank Stylization for Human Motion Diffusion	CGF (Eurographics 2026)	code webpage
Generalizing Stylized Motion Generation Method by Introducing Metadata-Independent Learning and Unified Multiple Motion Dataset	IEEE TMM 2025	code
DiFusion: Flexible Stylized Motion Generation Using Digest-and-Fusion Scheme	IEEE TVCG 2025
StyleMotif: Multi-Modal Motion Stylization using Style-Content Cross Fusion	ICCV 2025	webpage
SMooDi: Stylized Motion Diffusion Model	ECCV 2024	webpage
StyleVR: Stylizing Character Animations With Normalizing Flows	IEEE TVCG 2023
Unifying Human Motion Synthesis and Style Transfer with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models	arxiv 22.12	code