Skinned Motion Retargeting with Residual Perception of Motion Semantics & Geometry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08658v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:41:26 GMT
• Title: Skinned Motion Retargeting with Residual Perception of Motion Semantics & Geometry
• Authors: Jiaxu Zhang, Junwu Weng, Di Kang, Fang Zhao, Shaoli Huang, Xuefei Zhe, Linchao Bao, Ying Shan, Jue Wang and Zhigang Tu
• Abstract summary: A good motion cannot be reached without consideration of source-target differences on both the skeleton and shape geometry levels. We propose a novel Residual RETargeting network (R2ET) structure, which relies on two neural modification modules. Experiments on public dataset Mixamo demonstrate that our R2ET achieves the state-of-the-art performance.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A good motion retargeting cannot be reached without reasonable consideration of source-target differences on both the skeleton and shape geometry levels. In this work, we propose a novel Residual RETargeting network (R2ET) structure, which relies on two neural modification modules, to adjust the source motions to fit the target skeletons and shapes progressively. In particular, a skeleton-aware module is introduced to preserve the source motion semantics. A shape-aware module is designed to perceive the geometries of target characters to reduce interpenetration and contact-missing. Driven by our explored distance-based losses that explicitly model the motion semantics and geometry, these two modules can learn residual motion modifications on the source motion to generate plausible retargeted motion in a single inference without post-processing. To balance these two modifications, we further present a balancing gate to conduct linear interpolation between them. Extensive experiments on the public dataset Mixamo demonstrate that our R2ET achieves the state-of-the-art performance, and provides a good balance between the preservation of motion semantics as well as the attenuation of interpenetration and contact-missing. Code is available at https://github.com/Kebii/R2ET.

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