VHOI: Controllable Video Generation of Human-Object Interactions from Sparse Trajectories via Motion Densification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09646v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:40:24 GMT
• Title: VHOI: Controllable Video Generation of Human-Object Interactions from Sparse Trajectories via Motion Densification
• Authors: Wanyue Zhang, Lin Geng Foo, Thabo Beeler, Rishabh Dabral, Christian Theobalt,
• Abstract summary: VHOI is a framework for creating realistic human-object interactions in video.<n>We introduce a novel HOI-aware motion representation that uses color encodings to distinguish not only human and object motion, but also body-part-specific dynamics.<n> Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art results in controllable HOI video generation.
• Score: 65.15340059997273
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Synthesizing realistic human-object interactions (HOI) in video is challenging due to the complex, instance-specific interaction dynamics of both humans and objects. Incorporating controllability in video generation further adds to the complexity. Existing controllable video generation approaches face a trade-off: sparse controls like keypoint trajectories are easy to specify but lack instance-awareness, while dense signals such as optical flow, depths or 3D meshes are informative but costly to obtain. We propose VHOI, a two-stage framework that first densifies sparse trajectories into HOI mask sequences, and then fine-tunes a video diffusion model conditioned on these dense masks. We introduce a novel HOI-aware motion representation that uses color encodings to distinguish not only human and object motion, but also body-part-specific dynamics. This design incorporates a human prior into the conditioning signal and strengthens the model's ability to understand and generate realistic HOI dynamics. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art results in controllable HOI video generation. VHOI is not limited to interaction-only scenarios and can also generate full human navigation leading up to object interactions in an end-to-end manner. Project page: https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/vhoi/.

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