# Generating Human Motion in 3D Scenes from Text Descriptions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07784 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.07784/

## Key facts

- Cited by 49 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 84 of its 102 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 May 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 84)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Language Models are Few-Shot Learners](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.14165/) (2020)
- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.10683/) (2019)
- [LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.13971/) (2023)
- [Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.03374/) (2021)
- [End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.12872/) (2020)
- [Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06125/) (2022)
- [Neural Discrete Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.00937/) (2017)
- [Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11916/) (2022)
- [Mistral 7B](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.06825/) (2023)
- [Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face, and Body from a Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.05866/) (2019)
- [Point Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.00931/) (2020)
- [Generating Diverse High-Fidelity Images with VQ-VAE-2](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.00446/) (2019)
- [AMASS: Archive of Motion Capture as Surface Shapes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.03278/) (2019)
- [On the Continuity of Rotation Representations in Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.07035/) (2018)
- [Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.07455/) (2018)
- [Human Motion Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14916/) (2022)
- [MotionDiffuse: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation with Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.15001/) (2022)
- [T2M-GPT: Generating Human Motion from Textual Descriptions with Discrete Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.06052/) (2023)
- [MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.14795/) (2023)
- [Action-Conditioned 3D Human Motion Synthesis with Transformer VAE](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.05670/) (2021)
- [TEMOS: Generating diverse human motions from textual descriptions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.14109/) (2022)
- [ScanRefer: 3D Object Localization in RGB-D Scans using Natural Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.08830/) (2019)
- [Action2Motion: Conditioned Generation of 3D Human Motions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.15240/) (2020)
- [MotionCLIP: Exposing Human Motion Generation to CLIP Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.08063/) (2022)
- [TM2T: Stochastic and Tokenized Modeling for the Reciprocal Generation of 3D Human Motions and Texts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.01696/) (2022)
- [Human Motion Diffusion as a Generative Prior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.01418/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 49)

- [CLoSD: Closing the Loop between Simulation and Diffusion for multi-task character control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.03441/) (2024)
- [InterMimic: Towards Universal Whole-Body Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.20390/) (2025)
- [TokenHSI: Unified Synthesis of Physical Human-Scene Interactions through Task Tokenization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.19901/) (2025)
- [SMooDi: Stylized Motion Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.12783/) (2024)
- [Ready-to-React: Online Reaction Policy for Two-Character Interaction Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.20370/) (2025)
- [A Survey on Human Interaction Motion Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.12763/) (2025)
- [UniEgoMotion: A Unified Model for Egocentric Motion Reconstruction, Forecasting, and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.01126/) (2025)
- [SemGeoMo: Dynamic Contextual Human Motion Generation with Semantic and Geometric Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.01291/) (2025)
- [SCENIC: Scene-aware Semantic Navigation with Instruction-guided Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.15664/) (2024)
- [Diffgrasp: Whole-Body Grasping Synthesis Guided by Object Motion Using a Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.20657/) (2024)
- [EgoTwin: Dreaming Body and View in First Person](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.13013/) (2025)
- [CoDA: Coordinated Diffusion Noise Optimization for Whole-Body Manipulation of Articulated Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.21437/) (2025)
- [MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.11949/) (2025)
- [SceneMI: Motion In-betweening for Modeling Human-Scene Interactions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.16289/) (2025)
- [HOI-Dyn: Learning Interaction Dynamics for Human-Object Motion Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.01737/) (2025)
- [Motion-2-To-3: Leveraging 2D Motion Data for 3D Motion Generations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.13111/) (2024)
- [Motion Synthesis with Sparse and Flexible Keyjoint Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.15557/) (2025)
- [Motion Generation: A Survey of Generative Approaches and Benchmarks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.05419/) (2025)
- [Pulp Motion: Framing-aware multimodal camera and human motion generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.05097/) (2025)
- [3D Human Interaction Generation: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.13120/) (2025)
- [StyleMotif: Multi-Modal Motion Stylization using Style-Content Cross Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.21775/) (2025)
- [Diffusion Implicit Policy for Unpaired Scene-aware Motion Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.02261/) (2024)
- [GenHSI: Controllable Generation of Human-Scene Interaction Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.19840/) (2025)
- [HANDI: Hand-Centric Text-and-Image Conditioned Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.04189/) (2024)
- [Free-T2M: Robust Text-to-Motion Generation for Humanoid Robots via Frequency-Domain](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.18232/) (2025)
- [MotionVerse: A Unified Multimodal Framework for Motion Comprehension, Generation and Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.23635/) (2025)
- [Event-Driven Storytelling with Multiple Lifelike Humans in a 3D Scene](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.19232/) (2025)
- [SimGenHOI: Physically Realistic Whole-Body Humanoid-Object Interaction via Generative Modeling and Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.14120/) (2025)
- [Beyond Global Alignment: Fine-Grained Motion-Language Retrieval via Pyramidal Shapley-Taylor Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.21904/) (2026)
- [Decoupled Generative Modeling for Human-Object Interaction Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.19049/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Generating human motions from textual descriptions has gained growing research interest due to its wide range of applications. However, only a few works consider human-scene interactions together with text conditions, which is crucial for visual and physical realism. This paper focuses on the task of generating human motions in 3D indoor scenes given text descriptions of the human-scene interactions. This task presents challenges due to the multi-modality nature of text, scene, and motion, as well as the need for spatial reasoning. To address these challenges, we propose a new approach that decomposes the complex problem into two more manageable sub-problems: (1) language grounding of the target object and (2) object-centric motion generation. For language grounding of the target object, we leverage the power of large language models. For motion generation, we design an object-centric scene representation for the generative model to focus on the target object, thereby reducing the scene complexity and facilitating the modeling of the relationship between human motions and the object. Experiments demonstrate the better motion quality of our approach compared to baselines and validate our design choices.