G-HOP: Generative Hand-Object Prior for Interaction Reconstruction and Grasp Synthesis
Authors: Yufei Ye, Abhinav Gupta, Kris Kitani, Shubham Tulsiani

We propose G-HOP a denoising diffusion based generative prior for hand-object interactions that allows modeling both the 3D object and a human hand conditioned on the object category. To learn a 3D spatial diffusion model that can capture this joint distribution we represent the human hand via a skeletal distance field to obtain a representation aligned with the (latent) signed distance field for the object. We show that this hand-object prior can then serve as a generic guidance to facilitate other tasks like reconstruction from interaction clip and human grasp synthesis. We believe that our model trained by aggregating several diverse real-world interaction datasets spanning 155 categories represents a first approach that allows jointly generating both hand and object. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate the benefit of this joint prior in video-based reconstruction and human grasp synthesis outperforming current task-specific baselines.