Dynamic Motion Synthesis: Masked Audio-Text Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Transformers
This work addresses multimodal motion synthesis for applications like animation or robotics, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing methods like VQVAEs and MLM.
The paper tackles the problem of generating whole-body motion sequences conditioned on both text and audio inputs, achieving improved processing efficiency and coherence in the generated motions.
Our research presents a novel motion generation framework designed to produce whole-body motion sequences conditioned on multiple modalities simultaneously, specifically text and audio inputs. Leveraging Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQVAEs) for motion discretization and a bidirectional Masked Language Modeling (MLM) strategy for efficient token prediction, our approach achieves improved processing efficiency and coherence in the generated motions. By integrating spatial attention mechanisms and a token critic we ensure consistency and naturalness in the generated motions. This framework expands the possibilities of motion generation, addressing the limitations of existing approaches and opening avenues for multimodal motion synthesis.