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Published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026

Multimodal Context-Aware Human Motion Generation with Language, Vision, and Object

Junyu Shi, Yong Sun, Zhiyuan Zhang, Lijiang LIU, Yuxin He, Zhengjie Zhang, Qiang Nie

Abstract

Motion generation has made substantial progress in synthesizing human motion from language, yet text alone remains ambiguous for specifying fine-grained spatial, temporal, and interaction details. Visual observations offer a powerful source of complementary context: even sparse images can reveal intermediate body states, object affordances, and interaction relations that are difficult to specify precisely in language. Whatmore, contextual constraints like visual, object, and partial-motion conditions can ground motion genetration with higher physical fidelity and controllability. We therefore study a unified multimodal context-aware framework for motion generation under diverse conditions. The key challenge is that heterogeneous conditions impose constraints at different spatial-temporal granularities and exhibit token- and phase-dependent relevance. Moreover, incorporating multiple modalities without a robust motion prior may entangle modality-specific semantics and cause negative transfer. In these regards, we combine global multimodal modulation with fine-grained motion token-level context selection, enabling the model to adaptively exploit relevant signals during generation. We further adopt progressive training that first learns a strong language-conditioned motion prior, then extends to multimodal context with different modality combinations. To support multimodal training, we introduce Mo900H, a large-scale benchmark integrating 21 motion datasets with over 900 hours of human motion. Our method reduces FID by 21.1% and 48.3% compared with SOTA methods on the HumanML3D and Mo900H datasets, while also improving motion captioning and enabling diverse multimodal-conditioned generation.

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