Behave Your Motion | Zhimin Zhang

Behave Your Motion studies cross-category animal motion transfer with explicit habit preservation.

Existing motion transfer methods often confuse transferable motion semantics with species-specific movement habits. This project defines the habit preservation problem, builds a multi-category animal motion dataset, and proposes a VQ-VAE based framework with species priors and habit-aware conditioning.

The method preserves source motion semantics while maintaining target-species habits, and leverages large language models to provide habit priors for unseen categories, improving zero-shot cross-category motion transfer.

(Zhang et al., 2025)

References

2025

ACM MM

Behave Your Motion: Habit-preserved Cross-category Animal Motion Transfer

Zhimin Zhang, Bi’an Du, Caoyuan Ma, Zheng Wang, and Wei Hu

In ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{zhang2025behave,
  title = {Behave Your Motion: Habit-preserved Cross-category Animal Motion Transfer},
  author = {Zhang, Zhimin and Du, Bi'an and Ma, Caoyuan and Wang, Zheng and Hu, Wei},
  booktitle = {ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {9638--9647},
}