Retargeting Motions to Diverse Skeletons via Learnable Flattening
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arXiv:2609.38578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-structural motion retargeting aims to transfer motion between different skeletal topologies. Despite recent progress, existing state-of-the-art models struggle with reliability in zero-shot settings, i.e. skeletons with different topologies which were unseen during training, and recent Transformer-based attempts have failed to outperform specialized geometric methods. We bridge this gap with a Transformer Autoencoder that learns a topology- and translation-invariant latent space. Our core contribution is a learnable flattening of skeletal
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.38578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-structural motion retargeting aims to transfer motion between different skeletal topologies.
- Despite recent progress, existing state-of-the-art models struggle with reliability in zero-shot settings, i.e.
- skeletons with different topologies which were unseen during training, and recent Transformer-based attempts have failed to outperform specialized geometric methods.
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