ParTY: Part-Guidance for Expressive Text-to-Motion Synthesis
This work addresses the challenge of accurate and coherent text-to-motion synthesis for applications in animation and robotics, though it is incremental as it builds on existing part-wise methods.
The paper tackles the problem of generating expressive human motions from text, specifically addressing inaccuracies in actions involving specific body parts, and achieves substantial improvements over previous methods in part-level and coherence-level evaluations.
Text-to-motion synthesis aims to generate natural and expressive human motions from textual descriptions. While existing approaches primarily focus on generating holistic motions from text descriptions, they struggle to accurately reflect actions involving specific body parts. Recent part-wise motion generation methods attempt to resolve this but face two critical limitations: (i) they lack explicit mechanisms for aligning textual semantics with individual body parts, and (ii) they often generate incoherent full-body motions due to integrating independently generated part motions. To overcome these issues and resolve the fundamental trade-off in existing methods, we propose ParTY, a novel framework that enhances part expressiveness while generating coherent full-body motions. ParTY comprises: (1) Part-Guided Network, which first generates part motions to obtain part guidance, then uses it to generate holistic motions; (2) Part-aware Text Grounding, which diversely transforms text embeddings and appropriately aligns them with each body part; and (3) Holistic-Part Fusion, which adaptively fuses holistic motions and part motions. Extensive experiments, including part-level and coherence-level evaluations, demonstrate that ParTY achieves substantial improvements over previous methods.