A Cross-Dataset Study for Text-based 3D Human Motion Retrieval

Léore Bensabath, Mathis Petrovich, Gül Varol

22 Mar 2024 (modified: 07 Jun 2024)CVPR 2024 Workshop HuMoGen SubmissionEveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY 4.0
Keywords: 3D human motions, text-based retrieval
Abstract: We provide results of our study on text-based 3D human motion retrieval and particularly focus on cross-dataset generalization. Due to practical reasons such as dataset-specific human body representations, existing works typically benchmark by training and testing on partitions from the same dataset. Here, we employ a unified SMPL body format for all datasets, which allows us to perform training on one dataset, testing on the other, as well as training on a combination of datasets. Our results suggest that there exist dataset biases in standard text-motion benchmarks such as HumanML3D, KIT Motion-Language, and BABEL. We show that text augmentations help close the domain gap to some extent, but the gap remains. We further provide the first zero-shot action recognition results on BABEL, without using categorical action labels during training, opening up a new avenue for future research.
Submission Number: 13
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