Example-based Motion Synthesis via Generative Motion Matching
Authors: name: Weiyu Li, name: Xuelin Chen, name: Peizhuo Li, name: Olga Sorkine-Hornung, name: Baoquan Chen

We present GenMM, a generative model that "mines" as many diverse motions as
possible from a single or few example sequences. In stark contrast to existing
data-driven methods, which typically require long offline training time, are
prone to visual artifacts, and tend to fail on large and complex skeletons,
GenMM inherits the training-free nature and the superior quality of the
well-known Motion Matching method. GenMM can synthesize a high-quality motion
within a fraction of a second, even with highly complex and large skeletal
structures. At the heart of our generative framework lies the generative motion
matching module, which utilizes the bidirectional visual similarity as a
generative cost function to motion matching, and operates in a multi-stage
framework to progressively refine a random guess using exemplar motion matches.
In addition to diverse motion generation, we show the versatility of our
generative framework by extending it to a number of scenarios that are not
possible with motion matching alone, including motion completion, key
frame-guided generation, infinite looping, and motion reassembly. Code and data
for this paper are at https://wyysf-98.github.io/GenMM/