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Main Authors: Zhang, Xiaotang, Chang, Ziyi, Men, Qianhui, Shum, Hubert P. H.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07984
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author Zhang, Xiaotang
Chang, Ziyi
Men, Qianhui
Shum, Hubert P. H.
author_facet Zhang, Xiaotang
Chang, Ziyi
Men, Qianhui
Shum, Hubert P. H.
contents Motion tracking has been an important technique for imitating human-like movement from large-scale datasets in physics-based motion synthesis. However, existing approaches focus on tracking either single character or a particular type of interaction, limiting their ability to handle contact-rich interactions. Extending single-character tracking approaches suffers from the instability due to the challenge of forces transferred through contacts. Contact-rich interactions requires levels of control, which places much greater demands on model capacity. To this end, we propose a robust tracking method based on progressive neural network (PNN) where multiple experts are specialized in learning skills of various difficulties. Our method learns to assign training samples to experts automatically without requiring manually scheduling. Both qualitative and quantitative results show that our method delivers more stable motion tracking in densely interactive movements while enabling more efficient model training.
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spellingShingle Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters
Zhang, Xiaotang
Chang, Ziyi
Men, Qianhui
Shum, Hubert P. H.
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Motion tracking has been an important technique for imitating human-like movement from large-scale datasets in physics-based motion synthesis. However, existing approaches focus on tracking either single character or a particular type of interaction, limiting their ability to handle contact-rich interactions. Extending single-character tracking approaches suffers from the instability due to the challenge of forces transferred through contacts. Contact-rich interactions requires levels of control, which places much greater demands on model capacity. To this end, we propose a robust tracking method based on progressive neural network (PNN) where multiple experts are specialized in learning skills of various difficulties. Our method learns to assign training samples to experts automatically without requiring manually scheduling. Both qualitative and quantitative results show that our method delivers more stable motion tracking in densely interactive movements while enabling more efficient model training.
title Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters
topic Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07984