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Contact-aware Human Motion Forecasting
Wei Mao · miaomiao Liu · Richard I Hartley · Mathieu Salzmann

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In this paper, we tackle the task of scene-aware 3D human motion forecasting, which consists of predicting future human poses given a 3D scene and a past human motion. A key challenge of this task is to ensure consistency between the human and the scene, accounting for human-scene interactions. Previous attempts to do so model such interactions only implicitly, and thus tend to produce artifacts such as ``ghost motion" because of the lack of explicit constraints between the local poses and the global motion. Here, by contrast, we propose to explicitly model the human-scene contacts. To this end, we introduce distance-based contact maps that capture the contact relationships between every joint and every 3D scene point at each time instant. We then develop a two-stage pipeline that first predicts the future contact maps from the past ones and the scene point cloud, and then forecasts the future human poses by conditioning them on the predicted contact maps. During training, we explicitly encourage consistency between the global motion and the local poses via a prior defined using the contact maps and future poses. Our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art human motion forecasting and human synthesis methods on both synthetic and real datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/wei-mao-2019/ContAwareMotionPred.

Keywords: human-scene contact · scene-aware human motion prediction
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Author Information

Wei Mao (Australian National University)
Wei Mao

Wei is a PhD student at Australian National University (ANU). I work on computer vision and machine learning advised by Dr. Miaomiao Liu. I also work closely with Dr. Mathieu Salzmann.

miaomiao Liu (Australian National University)
Richard I Hartley (Australian National University)
Mathieu Salzmann (EPFL)

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