Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

TEMOS: Generating diverse human motions from textual descriptions

2022

Conference Paper

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We address the problem of generating diverse 3D human motions from textual descriptions. This challenging task requires joint modeling of both modalities: understanding and extracting useful human-centric information from the text, and then generating plausible and realistic sequences of human poses. In contrast to most previous work which focuses on generating a single, deterministic, motion from a textual description, we design a variational approach that can produce multiple diverse human motions. We propose TEMOS, a text-conditioned generative model leveraging variational autoencoder (VAE) training with human motion data, in combination with a text encoder that produces distribution parameters compatible with the VAE latent space. We show the TEMOS framework can produce both skeleton-based animations as in prior work, as well more expressive SMPL body motions. We evaluate our approach on the KIT Motion-Language benchmark and, despite being relatively straightforward, demonstrate significant improvements over the state of the art. Code and models are available on our webpage.

Author(s): Mathis Petrovich and Michael J. Black and Gül Varol
Book Title: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
Pages: 48--497
Year: 2022
Month: October
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Department(s): Perceiving Systems
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

Event Place: Tel Aviv, Israel

State: Published
Talk Type: Oral
URL: https://mathis.petrovich.fr/temos

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BibTex

@inproceedings{TEMOS,
  title = {TEMOS: Generating diverse human motions from textual descriptions},
  author = {Petrovich, Mathis and Black, Michael J. and Varol, G\"{u}l},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  pages = {48--497},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  month = oct,
  year = {2022},
  doi = {},
  url = {https://mathis.petrovich.fr/temos},
  month_numeric = {10}
}