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Main Authors: Yu, Shiyao, Wang, Zi-An, Yin, Kangning, Tian, Zheng, Zhang, Mingyuan, Si, Weixin, Zou, Shihao
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23188
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author Yu, Shiyao
Wang, Zi-An
Yin, Kangning
Tian, Zheng
Zhang, Mingyuan
Si, Weixin
Zou, Shihao
author_facet Yu, Shiyao
Wang, Zi-An
Yin, Kangning
Tian, Zheng
Zhang, Mingyuan
Si, Weixin
Zou, Shihao
contents Motion retrieval is crucial for motion acquisition, offering superior precision, realism, controllability, and editability compared to motion generation. Existing approaches leverage contrastive learning to construct a unified embedding space for motion retrieval from text or visual modality. However, these methods lack a more intuitive and user-friendly interaction mode and often overlook the sequential representation of most modalities for improved retrieval performance. To address these limitations, we propose a framework that aligns four modalities -- text, audio, video, and motion -- within a fine-grained joint embedding space, incorporating audio for the first time in motion retrieval to enhance user immersion and convenience. This fine-grained space is achieved through a sequence-level contrastive learning approach, which captures critical details across modalities for better alignment. To evaluate our framework, we augment existing text-motion datasets with synthetic but diverse audio recordings, creating two multi-modal motion retrieval datasets. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance over state-of-the-art methods across multiple sub-tasks, including an 10.16% improvement in R@10 for text-to-motion retrieval and a 25.43% improvement in R@1 for video-to-motion retrieval on the HumanML3D dataset. Furthermore, our results show that our 4-modal framework significantly outperforms its 3-modal counterpart, underscoring the potential of multi-modal motion retrieval for advancing motion acquisition.
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spellingShingle Multi-Modal Motion Retrieval by Learning a Fine-Grained Joint Embedding Space
Yu, Shiyao
Wang, Zi-An
Yin, Kangning
Tian, Zheng
Zhang, Mingyuan
Si, Weixin
Zou, Shihao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Motion retrieval is crucial for motion acquisition, offering superior precision, realism, controllability, and editability compared to motion generation. Existing approaches leverage contrastive learning to construct a unified embedding space for motion retrieval from text or visual modality. However, these methods lack a more intuitive and user-friendly interaction mode and often overlook the sequential representation of most modalities for improved retrieval performance. To address these limitations, we propose a framework that aligns four modalities -- text, audio, video, and motion -- within a fine-grained joint embedding space, incorporating audio for the first time in motion retrieval to enhance user immersion and convenience. This fine-grained space is achieved through a sequence-level contrastive learning approach, which captures critical details across modalities for better alignment. To evaluate our framework, we augment existing text-motion datasets with synthetic but diverse audio recordings, creating two multi-modal motion retrieval datasets. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance over state-of-the-art methods across multiple sub-tasks, including an 10.16% improvement in R@10 for text-to-motion retrieval and a 25.43% improvement in R@1 for video-to-motion retrieval on the HumanML3D dataset. Furthermore, our results show that our 4-modal framework significantly outperforms its 3-modal counterpart, underscoring the potential of multi-modal motion retrieval for advancing motion acquisition.
title Multi-Modal Motion Retrieval by Learning a Fine-Grained Joint Embedding Space
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23188