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This research advances 4D hand motion forecasting by leveraging diffusion models to generate synthetic 3D annotations from single images, effectively solving the scarcity of real-world labeled data. The approach demonstrates significant gains in zero-shot generalization for everyday scenarios, offering a robust framework for future human-robot interaction systems.
Bimanual 3D Hand Motion and Articulation Forecasting in Everyday Images
arXiv:2510.06145v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We tackle the problem of forecasting bimanual 3D hand motion and articulation from a single image in everyday settings. To address the lack of 3D hand annotations in diverse settings, we design an annotation pipeline consisting of a diffusion model to lift 2D hand keypoint sequences to 4D hand motion. For the forecasting model, we adopt a diffusion loss to account for the multimodality in hand motion distribution. Extensive experiments on 6 datasets show the benefits of training with our imputed labels (14% improvement) and the effectiveness of our lifting (45% better) & forecasting (16.4% gain) models, over the best baselines, especially in zero-shot generalization to everyday images.
Abstract:We tackle the problem of forecasting bimanual 3D hand motion and articulation from a single image in everyday settings. To address the lack of 3D hand annotations in diverse settings, we design an annotation pipeline consisting of a diffusion model to lift 2D hand keypoint sequences to 4D hand motion. For the forecasting model, we adopt a diffusion loss to account for the multimodality in hand motion distribution. Extensive experiments on 6 datasets show the benefits of training with our imputed labels (14% improvement) and the effectiveness of our lifting (45% better) & forecasting (16.4% gain) models, over the best baselines, especially in zero-shot generalization to everyday images.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2510.06145 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2510.06145v2 [cs.CV] for this version)
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