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arxiv: 2512.09646 · v2 · submitted 2025-12-10 · 💻 cs.CV

VHOI: Controllable Video Generation of Human-Object Interactions from Sparse Trajectories via Motion Densification

Wanyue Zhang , Lin Geng Foo , Thabo Beeler , Rishabh Dabral , Christian Theobalt This is my paper

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keywords human-object interactioncontrollable video generationmotion densificationvideo diffusion modelsparse trajectoriesHOI masksbody-part dynamics
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The pith

VHOI converts sparse human trajectories into dense color-coded masks that condition a video diffusion model to generate controllable human-object interactions.

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The paper introduces a two-stage process for creating videos of humans interacting with objects from easy-to-provide sparse trajectory inputs. First, a novel motion representation densifies those trajectories into sequences of masks that use distinct colors to separate human motion, object motion, and even individual body-part dynamics. These masks then serve as conditioning signals for fine-tuning a video diffusion model. The approach seeks to deliver instance-specific realism without requiring users to supply costly dense controls like full 3D meshes or optical flow, while also supporting full-scene navigation that leads into the interactions.

Core claim

VHOI is a two-stage framework that first densifies sparse trajectories into HOI mask sequences via an HOI-aware motion representation using color encodings to distinguish human, object, and body-part-specific dynamics, then fine-tunes a video diffusion model conditioned on these masks to produce controllable, realistic human-object interaction videos, including full navigation sequences.

What carries the argument

The HOI-aware motion representation that applies color encodings to sparse trajectories to produce dense mask sequences distinguishing overall human motion, object motion, and body-part-specific dynamics for use as conditioning input.

If this is right

  • Users can control HOI videos with simple trajectory sketches rather than expensive dense signals.
  • Generation extends naturally to complete scenes that include human navigation before the interaction occurs.
  • Body-part color distinctions improve the model's grasp of fine-grained dynamics like hand or foot movements during contact.
  • The same pipeline supports both isolated interaction clips and longer navigation-to-interaction sequences without separate modules.
  • Performance reaches state-of-the-art levels on controllable HOI video benchmarks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The color-based densification might extend to multi-person or multi-object scenes if the encoding scheme is expanded.
  • Real-time applications could arise by pairing the method with live skeleton tracking from cameras or wearables.
  • Efficiency gains over mesh-based methods could be quantified by measuring user effort versus output quality on the same tasks.
  • Testing on out-of-distribution objects or environments would reveal how much the human prior in the masks helps generalization.

Load-bearing premise

The color-encoding scheme will reliably turn sparse trajectories into clean, instance-specific masks that capture realistic interaction dynamics without introducing artifacts when fed to the diffusion model.

What would settle it

Generated videos showing motion artifacts, incorrect body-part interactions, or loss of object identity when sparse trajectories are provided for complex actions such as grasping or throwing.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.09646 by Christian Theobalt, Lin Geng Foo, Rishabh Dabral, Thabo Beeler, Wanyue Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The input to VHOI consists of a text prompt, an input image, an HOI mask image, and trajectories. We first convert the trajectories [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Motion Representation. We visualize two frames of colored sparse trajectories alongside the three intermediate mo￾tion representations studied in this work. (a) The sparse trajec￾tory representation, where different colors denote different human parts or objects. (b) HOI masks (ours): constructed by combining object masks [63] with part-level human segmentation [34], each assigned a consistent color to enc… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The trajectory augmentor A receives sparse trajectories and the corresponding visibility maps (optional) as inputs. The trajec￾tories are processed by a trajectory extractor and fused with transformer latents and visibility cues in the augmentor fuser, producing a sequence of HOI masks that densifies the sparse control signals, used in the dense control model D as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fi… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The dense control model D conditions on HOI masks. The masks are encoded by a HOI extractor and fused with trans￾former latents in the dense control fuser, which also includes a confidence prediction head to modulate reliance on the control sig￾nal. The final output is an HOI video that follows the densified motion cues. Orange modules denote learnable components; blue modules are frozen. (Best viewed with… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparisons of TORA-finetuned (TORA*), Go-with-the-Flow (Go-Flow), and our method alongside ground-truth [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative ablation of different motion representa￾tions. We compare augmentors trained on foreground optical flow, instance masks, and our proposed HOI masks. Flow-based condi￾tioning lacks interaction semantics and fails to capture the grasp in this example. Instance-mask conditioning predicts the interaction but does not preserve object identity. Our HOI mask representation provides richer interaction … view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The fuser is inserted between the AdaLN scale-and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Prompt template used to process text prompts for aug [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: HOI Masks Color Palette. We visualize the color en￾coding of the 29 classes, where each color corresponds to a distinct part. The color scheme for human parts follows SAPIEN [34], and light gray is used for the object. the augmentor, enabling richer motion guidance for the dense model. Task: Rewrite the caption as a concise description of only the human and foreground object motion. Do not describe backgro… view at source ↗
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Synthesizing realistic human-object interactions (HOI) in video is challenging due to the complex, instance-specific interaction dynamics of both humans and objects. Incorporating controllability in video generation further adds to the complexity. Existing controllable video generation approaches face a trade-off: sparse controls like keypoint trajectories are easy to specify but lack instance-awareness, while dense signals such as optical flow, depths or 3D meshes are informative but costly to obtain. We propose VHOI, a two-stage framework that first densifies sparse trajectories into HOI mask sequences, and then fine-tunes a video diffusion model conditioned on these dense masks. We introduce a novel HOI-aware motion representation that uses color encodings to distinguish not only human and object motion, but also body-part-specific dynamics. This design incorporates a human prior into the conditioning signal and strengthens the model's ability to understand and generate realistic HOI dynamics. Experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art results in controllable HOI video generation. VHOI is not limited to interaction-only scenarios and can also generate full human navigation leading up to object interactions in an end-to-end manner. Project page: https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/vhoi/.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents VHOI, a two-stage framework for controllable video generation of human-object interactions from sparse trajectories. The first stage converts sparse trajectories into dense HOI mask sequences via a novel color-encoded motion representation that distinguishes human/object motion and body-part-specific dynamics, incorporating a human prior. The second stage fine-tunes a video diffusion model conditioned on these masks. The authors claim state-of-the-art results in controllable HOI video generation and demonstrate end-to-end generation of full human navigation leading to object interactions.

Significance. If the densification stage produces artifact-free, instance-specific masks that faithfully capture realistic HOI dynamics, the work would meaningfully address the sparse-vs-dense control trade-off in video synthesis by enabling easy-to-specify inputs to yield informative conditioning signals. The incorporation of body-part priors and the extension to navigation scenarios are positive aspects. The approach builds on existing diffusion models without introducing free parameters or circular derivations.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (HOI-aware motion representation): The central claim depends on the color encoding reliably producing dense masks without artifacts or loss of fine dynamics in overlapping regions. The manuscript does not provide quantitative validation (e.g., mask IoU or optical-flow consistency metrics) or ablation against non-color encodings to confirm this holds for instance-specific interactions.
  2. [§5] §5 (Experiments): The SOTA performance assertion requires explicit comparison tables against recent baselines (e.g., trajectory-conditioned diffusion methods) with standard metrics such as FID, FVD, and controllability scores; without these, the claim that VHOI outperforms prior work on both interaction-only and navigation scenarios cannot be evaluated.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and §1 could more clearly state the exact input format of the sparse trajectories (e.g., 2D keypoints per frame) to help readers assess practicality.
  2. [Figure 2] Figure 2 (pipeline overview) would benefit from explicit channel legends for the color encodings to illustrate how body-part distinctions are encoded.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive feedback on our manuscript. We agree with the identified gaps in quantitative validation and experimental comparisons, and we will revise the paper accordingly to strengthen these aspects while preserving the core contributions of the VHOI framework.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (HOI-aware motion representation): The central claim depends on the color encoding reliably producing dense masks without artifacts or loss of fine dynamics in overlapping regions. The manuscript does not provide quantitative validation (e.g., mask IoU or optical-flow consistency metrics) or ablation against non-color encodings to confirm this holds for instance-specific interactions.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative validation is needed to rigorously support the reliability of the color-encoded representation. In the revised manuscript, we will add a dedicated evaluation subsection reporting mask IoU and optical-flow consistency metrics computed on held-out test sequences. We will also include an ablation study comparing our color encoding against non-color alternatives (e.g., grayscale or channel-separated masks) to demonstrate its advantages for instance-specific HOI dynamics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): The SOTA performance assertion requires explicit comparison tables against recent baselines (e.g., trajectory-conditioned diffusion methods) with standard metrics such as FID, FVD, and controllability scores; without these, the claim that VHOI outperforms prior work on both interaction-only and navigation scenarios cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current experimental section would be strengthened by more comprehensive quantitative tables. In the revision, we will expand Section 5 with explicit comparison tables reporting FID, FVD, and controllability scores against recent trajectory-conditioned diffusion baselines. These tables will cover both interaction-only and navigation scenarios, with notes on any baseline limitations for the latter. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper describes a practical two-stage engineering pipeline (sparse trajectory densification via color-encoded HOI motion representation followed by conditioning a pre-existing video diffusion model) without any equations, derivations, or parameter-fitting steps that reduce to the inputs by construction. No self-citations are used to justify uniqueness theorems, ansatzes, or load-bearing premises, and the method is presented as building directly on standard diffusion models with an added conditioning signal. The approach is self-contained and externally falsifiable via the reported experiments on controllability and navigation, yielding no circularity under the specified criteria.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on the domain assumption that video diffusion models can be conditioned effectively on mask sequences and that the proposed color encoding injects useful human priors; no free parameters or invented entities are specified in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Video diffusion models can be fine-tuned on dense mask sequences to achieve controllable generation of human-object interactions.
    Central to the second stage of the proposed framework.

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