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arxiv: 2606.20888 · v1 · pith:BBU6DL2Dnew · submitted 2026-06-18 · 💻 cs.CV

Fine-grained Human Motion Understanding with Language Models

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keywords human motion understandinglanguage modelsskeletal posestemporal encodingpose captioningmotion question answering2D skeletal inputmulti-task training
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The pith

Explicit timestamps on skeletal poses let language models achieve state-of-the-art fine-grained human motion understanding.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes representing human motion as sequences of skeletal poses each paired with timestamp tokens so that an LLM can track order, duration, and rhythm. It constructs a training mixture covering pose captioning, pose QA, motion captioning, and motion QA to determine what supervision is required for good motion-language reasoning. Experiments on five benchmarks show state-of-the-art results, with the diversity of supervision providing the largest gains and the model succeeding even with only 2D input where it beats previous 3D methods. This matters for building motion understanding systems that work from ordinary video without specialized 3D hardware. The ablations indicate that explicit time encoding and task variety are the key ingredients.

Core claim

Representing motion as a sequence of skeletal poses with explicit timestamps for each pose, combined with training on a diverse mixture of pose- and motion-level captioning and question answering tasks, enables an LLM-based model to achieve state-of-the-art performance on fine-grained human motion understanding benchmarks, supporting both 2D and 3D inputs.

What carries the argument

Motion as timestamped skeletal pose sequences fed to an LLM, with a unified pose encoder and a four-task training mixture of pose captioning, pose QA, motion captioning, and motion QA.

If this is right

  • Explicit timestamp tokens allow reasoning about motion order, duration, and rhythm.
  • Diverse supervision from pose and motion tasks drives most of the performance gains.
  • Staged training adds only a small extra benefit.
  • The unified encoder allows the same model to handle 2D or 3D skeletal data, optionally with video context.
  • The method exceeds prior 3D-based approaches on multiple benchmarks even when restricted to 2D skeletal input.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • This representation could enable motion analysis from standard 2D pose detectors in everyday settings like fitness apps or security cameras.
  • It opens the possibility of training effective models with less reliance on expensive 3D motion capture data.
  • The approach might be tested on multi-person or interactive motions to see if timestamps scale to complex scenarios.
  • Integrating this with other LLM capabilities like planning could lead to systems that describe and suggest corrections for observed movements.

Load-bearing premise

The premise that timestamp tokens in the input sequence combined with the constructed training mixture suffice to let the LLM effectively reason about motion timing and details.

What would settle it

An ablation removing the timestamp tokens and measuring the drop in performance on questions involving motion duration or sequence order would directly test the contribution of explicit temporal encoding.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.20888 by Jan van Gemert, Jouh Yeong Chew, Thomas Markhorst, Xucong Zhang, Zhi-Yi Lin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Given a motion sequence (top left), our method answers questions about fine-grained [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Pipeline of our FiGMo, comprising (i) pose encoder pre-training, (ii) encoding high [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Training data examples. Pose-related datasets are shown in the top row and motion-related [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison of FiGMo with DEMO [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative examples showing fine-grained temporal motion reasoning (left), action de [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Prompt template used for GPT-based semantic evaluation on BABEL-QA. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Prompt template used for GPT-based semantic evaluation on ActivityNet-QA. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Prompt templates used to construct PS-Short. Top: generation prompt used by Qwen2.5-VL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Prompt templates used for creating PS-Fine. Top: fine-grained generation prompt used to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Prompt templates used for creating PF-Fine. Top: generation prompt used to extract [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Prompt template used to generate FTM-QA. The LLM receives sequence-level and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Prompt template used to generate HML3D-QA. The LLM is given multiple natural [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_12.png] view at source ↗
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In this work, we propose \methodname, an LLM-based model for fine-grained human motion understanding that represents motion as a sequence of skeletal poses with explicit timestamps for each pose. Each pose encodes body joint positions and is temporally grounded with timestamp tokens, allowing the model to reason about motion order, duration, and rhythm. To study what supervision is needed for motion-language reasoning, we construct a diverse training mixture spanning pose captioning, pose question answering, motion captioning, and motion question answering. Our ablations show that the primary gains come from the diversity of pose- and motion-level supervision, while staged training provides a smaller additional benefit. Different from previous works that rely on ground-truth 3D motion capture, our approach supports both 2D and 3D skeletal motion representations through a unified pose encoder, and can optionally incorporate video to provide contextual information. Extensive experiments on BABEL-QA, HuMMan-QA, CompMo, NTU-RGB+D, and QEVD-Coach demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks, highlighting the effectiveness of explicit temporal encoding and diverse pose- and motion-level supervision for fine-grained human motion understanding. Notably, even when using only 2D skeletal input, our approach surpasses previous 3D-based methods.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes exttt{\\methodname}, an LLM-based model for fine-grained human motion understanding. Human motion is encoded as a sequence of skeletal poses, each augmented with explicit timestamp tokens, and processed by a unified pose encoder that supports both 2D and 3D inputs (optionally with video context). Training uses a diverse mixture of pose captioning, pose QA, motion captioning, and motion QA tasks. The central empirical claim is that this yields state-of-the-art results on BABEL-QA, HuMMan-QA, CompMo, NTU-RGB+D, and QEVD-Coach, with 2D-only input surpassing prior 3D-based methods; ablations attribute primary gains to supervision diversity and a smaller benefit to staged training.

Significance. If the reported results and ablations hold under scrutiny, the work would establish that explicit timestamp-based temporal grounding plus a broad pose/motion supervision mixture enables LLMs to perform fine-grained motion reasoning at a level competitive with or superior to specialized 3D pipelines. This would be notable for lowering the barrier to high-quality motion understanding (no ground-truth 3D mocap required) and for providing concrete evidence on the value of supervision diversity in motion-language models.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim credits 'explicit temporal encoding' (timestamp tokens) with enabling the LLM to reason about motion order, duration, and rhythm, yet the described ablations only vary supervision diversity and staged training. No direct comparison of the identical architecture with versus without timestamp tokens is reported, leaving open whether the sequence of poses alone suffices for the claimed SOTA gains on BABEL-QA, HuMMan-QA, etc.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript asserts 'state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks' and that 'even when using only 2D skeletal input, our approach surpasses previous 3D-based methods,' but supplies no quantitative metrics, baseline comparisons, error bars, or ablation tables. Without these data the magnitude, statistical reliability, and attribution of gains to the proposed components cannot be assessed.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The method name is written as \methodname in the abstract; a concrete name or acronym should be introduced at first use for readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address the two major comments point by point below, providing clarifications and committing to revisions where they strengthen the work.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim credits 'explicit temporal encoding' (timestamp tokens) with enabling the LLM to reason about motion order, duration, and rhythm, yet the described ablations only vary supervision diversity and staged training. No direct comparison of the identical architecture with versus without timestamp tokens is reported, leaving open whether the sequence of poses alone suffices for the claimed SOTA gains on BABEL-QA, HuMMan-QA, etc.

    Authors: We acknowledge that our reported ablations focus on supervision diversity and staged training rather than isolating the timestamp tokens. The timestamps form an integral part of the input representation to explicitly support reasoning over duration and rhythm; however, to directly substantiate their contribution, we will add a controlled ablation comparing the full model against an identical architecture without timestamp tokens in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The manuscript asserts 'state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks' and that 'even when using only 2D skeletal input, our approach surpasses previous 3D-based methods,' but supplies no quantitative metrics, baseline comparisons, error bars, or ablation tables. Without these data the magnitude, statistical reliability, and attribution of gains to the proposed components cannot be assessed.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise summary and does not contain numerical results, which follows standard practice for brevity. All quantitative metrics, SOTA comparisons on BABEL-QA, HuMMan-QA, CompMo, NTU-RGB+D and QEVD-Coach, baseline tables, ablation results, and any error bars are provided in full in the Experiments section. We will verify that cross-references from the abstract to these tables are explicit in the revision. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical SOTA claims rest on benchmark results, not self-referential definitions or fits

full rationale

The paper presents an LLM-based architecture with timestamp-augmented pose sequences and a mixed supervision regime, then reports performance on external benchmarks (BABEL-QA, HuMMan-QA, etc.). No derivation chain, uniqueness theorem, or parameter fit is invoked whose output is definitionally identical to its input. Ablation descriptions vary supervision diversity and staging but do not reduce any claimed gain to a tautology. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the central empirical result. The work is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review limits visibility into parameters or entities; the approach rests on the domain assumption that LLMs can leverage the described pose sequence format for temporal reasoning.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption LLMs can effectively reason about motion order, duration, and rhythm when motion is represented as timestamped skeletal pose sequences.
    Invoked in the abstract to justify the representation choice.

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