ARFlow: Human Action-Reaction Flow Matching with Physical Guidance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16973v2
• Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:43:09 GMT
• Title: ARFlow: Human Action-Reaction Flow Matching with Physical Guidance
• Authors: Wentao Jiang, Jingya Wang, Haotao Lu, Kaiyang Ji, Baoxiong Jia, Siyuan Huang, Ye Shi,
• Abstract summary: Action-Reaction Flow Matching is a novel framework that establishes direct action-to-reaction mappings.<n>Our approach introduces two key innovations: an x1-prediction method that directly outputs human motions instead of velocity fields, and a training-free, gradient-based physical guidance mechanism that effectively prevents body penetration artifacts during sampling.
• Score: 34.33083853308399
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Human action-reaction synthesis, a fundamental challenge in modeling causal human interactions, plays a critical role in applications ranging from virtual reality to social robotics. While diffusion-based models have demonstrated promising performance, they exhibit two key limitations for interaction synthesis: reliance on complex noise-to-reaction generators with intricate conditional mechanisms, and frequent physical violations in generated motions. To address these issues, we propose Action-Reaction Flow Matching (ARFlow), a novel framework that establishes direct action-to-reaction mappings, eliminating the need for complex conditional mechanisms. Our approach introduces two key innovations: an x1-prediction method that directly outputs human motions instead of velocity fields, enabling explicit constraint enforcement; and a training-free, gradient-based physical guidance mechanism that effectively prevents body penetration artifacts during sampling. Extensive experiments on NTU120 and Chi3D datasets demonstrate that ARFlow not only outperforms existing methods in terms of Fr\'echet Inception Distance and motion diversity but also significantly reduces body collisions, as measured by our new Intersection Volume and Intersection Frequency metrics.

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