Towards 3D-Aware Video Diffusion Models: Render-Free Human Motion Control with Mesh Tokenization

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Autori principali: Liang, Jingyun, Wei, Min, Li, Shikai, Han, Yizeng, Yuan, Hangjie, Sun, Lei, Chen, Weihua, Wang, Fan
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author Liang, Jingyun
Wei, Min
Li, Shikai
Han, Yizeng
Yuan, Hangjie
Sun, Lei
Chen, Weihua
Wang, Fan
author_facet Liang, Jingyun
Wei, Min
Li, Shikai
Han, Yizeng
Yuan, Hangjie
Sun, Lei
Chen, Weihua
Wang, Fan
contents Diffusion models have shown remarkable success in video generation. However, whether such models are truly aware of the 3D structure underlying visual observations, rather than simply reproducing plausible 2D projections, remains an open question. In this work, we investigate this question through human motion control, a task that requires precise modelling of 3D human geometry, motion, camera viewpoint, and scene context. Unlike prior methods that rely on rendered 2D motion guidance videos, we propose a render-free framework that conditions video generation directly on compressed 3D human mesh tokens. This representation preserves full 3D geometric information while enabling a unified token-based generation pipeline that processes video tokens jointly with motion tokens in a DiT-based architecture. This design requires the model to reason jointly about appearance, 3D structure, and camera viewpoint during video generation. Experimental results demonstrate strong performance on human motion control benchmarks, while reducing artifacts induced by view-dependent 2D guidance and trajectory-pose mismatches during editing. These findings suggest that video diffusion models, when equipped with mesh tokenization, can better capture complex 3D human structures and their interactions with the surrounding environment.
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spellingShingle Towards 3D-Aware Video Diffusion Models: Render-Free Human Motion Control with Mesh Tokenization
Liang, Jingyun
Wei, Min
Li, Shikai
Han, Yizeng
Yuan, Hangjie
Sun, Lei
Chen, Weihua
Wang, Fan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
Diffusion models have shown remarkable success in video generation. However, whether such models are truly aware of the 3D structure underlying visual observations, rather than simply reproducing plausible 2D projections, remains an open question. In this work, we investigate this question through human motion control, a task that requires precise modelling of 3D human geometry, motion, camera viewpoint, and scene context. Unlike prior methods that rely on rendered 2D motion guidance videos, we propose a render-free framework that conditions video generation directly on compressed 3D human mesh tokens. This representation preserves full 3D geometric information while enabling a unified token-based generation pipeline that processes video tokens jointly with motion tokens in a DiT-based architecture. This design requires the model to reason jointly about appearance, 3D structure, and camera viewpoint during video generation. Experimental results demonstrate strong performance on human motion control benchmarks, while reducing artifacts induced by view-dependent 2D guidance and trajectory-pose mismatches during editing. These findings suggest that video diffusion models, when equipped with mesh tokenization, can better capture complex 3D human structures and their interactions with the surrounding environment.
title Towards 3D-Aware Video Diffusion Models: Render-Free Human Motion Control with Mesh Tokenization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02000