Move as You Say, Interact as You Can:
Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance

CVPR 2024, Highlight

1School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology
2National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI    3Dept. of Automation, Tsinghua University
4CFCS, School of Computer Science, Peking University    5Institute for AI, Peking University
6Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiaxing

✉️indicates corresponding author
🏃‍♀️ We introduce a novel two-stage framework that employs scene affordance as an intermediate representation, effectively linking 3D scene grounding and conditional motion generation.

🥰 Abstract

Despite significant advancements in text-to-motion synthesis, generating language-guided human motion within 3D environments poses substantial challenges. These challenges stem primarily from (i) the absence of powerful generative models capable of jointly modeling natural language, 3D scenes, and human motion, and (ii) the generative models' intensive data requirements contrasted with the scarcity of comprehensive, high-quality, language-scene-motion datasets. To tackle these issues, we introduce a novel two-stage framework that employs scene affordance as an intermediate representation, effectively linking 3D scene grounding and conditional motion generation. Our framework comprises an Affordance Diffusion Model (ADM) for predicting explicit affordance map and an Affordance-to-Motion Diffusion Model (AMDM) for generating plausible human motions. By leveraging scene affordance maps, our method overcomes the difficulty in generating human motion under multimodal condition signals, especially when training with limited data lacking extensive language-scene-motion pairs. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms all baselines on established benchmarks, including HumanML3D and HUMANISE. Additionally, we validate our model's exceptional generalization capabilities on a specially curated evaluation set featuring previously unseen descriptions and scenes.

🥳 Results on HumanML3D

🤩 Results on HUMANISE

😋 Results on Our Novel Evaluation Set

🥸 BibTeX

@inproceedings{wang2024move,
  title={Move as You Say, Interact as You Can: Language-guided Human Motion Generation with Scene Affordance},
  author={Wang, Zan and Chen, Yixin and Jia, Baoxiong and Li, Puhao and Zhang, Jinlu and Zhang, Jingze and Liu, Tengyu and Zhu, Yixin and Liang, Wei and Huang, Siyuan},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year={2024}
}