Motion Anything: Any to Motion Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Conditional motion generation has been extensively studied in computer vision, yet two critical challenges remain. First, while masked autoregressive methods have recently outperformed diffusion-based approaches, existing masking models lack a mechanism to prioritize dynamic frames and body parts based on given conditions. Second, existing methods for different conditioning modalities often fail to integrate multiple modalities effectively, limiting control and coherence in generated motion. To address these challenges, we propose Motion Anything, a multimodal motion generation framework that introduces an Attention-based Mask Modeling approach, enabling fine-grained spatial and temporal control over key frames and actions. Our model adaptively encodes multimodal conditions, including text and music, improving controllability. Additionally, we introduce Text-Music-Dance (TMD), a new motion dataset consisting of 2,153 pairs of text, music, and dance, making it twice the size of AIST++, thereby filling a critical gap in the community. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Motion Anything surpasses state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks, achieving a 15% improvement in FID on HumanML3D and showing consistent performance gains on AIST++ and TMD. See our project website https://steve-zeyu-zhang.github.io/MotionAnything
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- 2016The KIT Motion-Language Datasetcited by 338
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- 2023MotionGPT: Finetuned LLMs Are General-Purpose Motion Generatorscited by 145
- 2024L4GM: Large 4D Gaussian Reconstruction Modelcited by 144
- 2023MMM: Generative Masked Motion Modelcited by 131
- 2023Consistent4D: Consistent 360deg Dynamic Object Generation from Monocular Videocited by 125
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- 2024Motion Mamba: Efficient and Long Sequence Motion Generationcited by 112
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- 2025MotionGPT3: Human Motion as a Second Modalitycited by 37
- 2025Absolute Coordinates Make Motion Generation Easycited by 29
- 2025PresentAgent: Multimodal Agent for Presentation Video Generationcited by 21
- 2025ReMoMask: Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generationcited by 11
- 2025Motion-R1: Enhancing Motion Generation with Decomposed Chain-of-Thought and RL Bindingcited by 9
- 2025ViBES: A Conversational Agent with Behaviorally-Intelligent 3D Virtual Bodycited by 6
- 2026SafeMo: Linguistically Grounded Unlearning for Trustworthy Text-to-Motion Generationcited by 6
- 2025X-MoGen: Unified Motion Generation across Humans and Animalscited by 4
- 2025PP-Motion: Physical-Perceptual Fidelity Evaluation for Human Motion Generationcited by 4
- 2025OmniMotion-X: Versatile Multimodal Whole-Body Motion Generationcited by 4
- 2026PresentAgent-2: Towards Generalist Multimodal Presentation Agentscited by 4
- 2025MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animationcited by 3
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- 2025Think Before You Move: Latent Motion Reasoning for Text-to-Motion Generationcited by 3
- 2025InterMamba: Efficient Human-Human Interaction Generation with Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Mambacited by 2
- 2025MOGO: Residual Quantized Hierarchical Causal Transformer for High-Quality and Real-Time 3D Human Motion Generationcited by 2
- 2026Language-Guided Transformer Tokenizer for Human Motion Generationcited by 2
- 2026OpenT2M: No-frill Motion Generation with Open-source,Large-scale, High-quality Datacited by 2
- 2026UniMesh: Unifying 3D Mesh Understanding and Generationcited by 2
- 2025ST-GDance: Long-Term and Collision-Free Group Choreography from Musiccited by 1
- 2025Human Motion Synthesis in 3D Scenes via Unified Scene Semantic Occupancycited by 1
- 2026PartRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Part-Level 3D Generation and Editingcited by 1
- 2026ParTY: Part-Guidance for Expressive Text-to-Motion Synthesiscited by 1
- 2026InfiniteDance: Scalable 3D Dance Generation Towards in-the-wild Generalizationcited by 1
- 2026AnyMo: Scaling Any-Modality Conditional Motion Generation with Masked Modelingcited by 1
- 2026MoSAT: Human Motion Generation from Spatial Audio and Textual Descriptioncited by 1
- 2025PMG: Progressive Motion Generation via Sparse Anchor Postures Curriculum Learningcited by 0
- 2025OpenDance: Multimodal Controllable 3D Dance Generation with Large-scale Internet Datacited by 0
- 2025SceneAdapt: Scene-aware Adaptation of Human Motion Diffusioncited by 0
- 2025A Survey of Body and Face Motion: Datasets, Performance Evaluation Metrics and Generative Techniquescited by 0
- 2025Kinetic Mining in Context: Few-Shot Action Synthesis via Text-to-Motion Distillationcited by 0
- 2026MoRL: Reinforced Reasoning for Unified Motion Understanding and Generationcited by 0
- 2026ST-GDance++: A Scalable Spatial-Temporal Diffusion for Long-Duration Group Choreographycited by 0
- 2026TeMuDance: Contrastive Alignment-Based Textual Control for Music-Driven Dance Generationcited by 0
- 2026SCAMP: Sparse-anchor Control is One Small Projectioncited by 0
- 2026Multi-scale Coarse-to-fine Modeling for Test-time Human Motion Controlcited by 0
- 2026SkelMo: Universal Skeletal Motion Generation for 3D Rigged Shapescited by 0
- 2026Human-Centric Intelligence in the Era of Foundation Models: A Surveycited by 0
- 2026Multi-Modal Controlled Coherent Motion Generationcited by 0
- 2026UniMo: Unifying Human and Animal Motion Generationcited by 0
- 2026Timo: Taming Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Human Motion Generationcited by 0
- 2026CleanMDM: Clean Motion Diffusion Model for Multimodal Motion Cleanupcited by 0
- 2026CleanMDM: Clean Motion Diffusion Model for Multimodal Motion Cleanup4 Oct 2026
- 2026Timo: Taming Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Human Motion Generation25 Sep 2026
- 2026MoSAT: Human Motion Generation from Spatial Audio and Textual Description20 Sep 2026
- 2026UniMo: Unifying Human and Animal Motion Generation11 Sep 2026
- 2026Multi-Modal Controlled Coherent Motion Generation10 Sep 2026
- 2026Human-Centric Intelligence in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey18 Aug 2026
- 2026SkelMo: Universal Skeletal Motion Generation for 3D Rigged Shapes1 Jun 2026
- 2026AnyMo: Scaling Any-Modality Conditional Motion Generation with Masked Modeling28 May 2026
- 2026Multi-scale Coarse-to-fine Modeling for Test-time Human Motion Control14 May 2026
- 2026SCAMP: Sparse-anchor Control is One Small Projection14 May 2026
- 2026PresentAgent-2: Towards Generalist Multimodal Presentation Agents12 May 2026
- 2026UniMesh: Unifying 3D Mesh Understanding and Generation19 Apr 2026
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- 2026TeMuDance: Contrastive Alignment-Based Textual Control for Music-Driven Dance Generation18 Apr 2026
- 2026ST-GDance++: A Scalable Spatial-Temporal Diffusion for Long-Duration Group Choreography20 Mar 2026
- 2026OpenT2M: No-frill Motion Generation with Open-source,Large-scale, High-quality Data19 Mar 2026
- 2026InfiniteDance: Scalable 3D Dance Generation Towards in-the-wild Generalization10 Mar 2026
- 2026ParTY: Part-Guidance for Expressive Text-to-Motion Synthesis10 Mar 2026
- 2026PartRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Part-Level 3D Generation and Editing19 Feb 2026
- 2026MoRL: Reinforced Reasoning for Unified Motion Understanding and Generation16 Feb 2026
- 2026Language-Guided Transformer Tokenizer for Human Motion Generation9 Feb 2026
- 2026SafeMo: Linguistically Grounded Unlearning for Trustworthy Text-to-Motion Generation2 Jan 2026
- 2025Think Before You Move: Latent Motion Reasoning for Text-to-Motion Generation30 Dec 2025
- 2025ViBES: A Conversational Agent with Behaviorally-Intelligent 3D Virtual Body16 Dec 2025
- 2025Kinetic Mining in Context: Few-Shot Action Synthesis via Text-to-Motion Distillation12 Dec 2025
- 2025A Survey of Body and Face Motion: Datasets, Performance Evaluation Metrics and Generative Techniques9 Dec 2025
- 2025Human Motion Synthesis in 3D Scenes via Unified Scene Semantic Occupancy11 Nov 2025
- 2025OmniMotion-X: Versatile Multimodal Whole-Body Motion Generation22 Oct 2025
- 2025OmniMotion: Multimodal Motion Generation with Continuous Masked Autoregression16 Oct 2025
- 2025SceneAdapt: Scene-aware Adaptation of Human Motion Diffusion14 Oct 2025
- 2025PP-Motion: Physical-Perceptual Fidelity Evaluation for Human Motion Generation11 Aug 2025
- 2025X-MoGen: Unified Motion Generation across Humans and Animals7 Aug 2025
- 2025ReMoMask: Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generation4 Aug 2025
- 2025ST-GDance: Long-Term and Collision-Free Group Choreography from Music29 Jul 2025
- 2025PresentAgent: Multimodal Agent for Presentation Video Generation5 Jul 2025
- 2025MotionGPT3: Human Motion as a Second Modality30 Jun 2025
- 2025Motion-R1: Enhancing Motion Generation with Decomposed Chain-of-Thought and RL Binding12 Jun 2025
- 2025OpenDance: Multimodal Controllable 3D Dance Generation with Large-scale Internet Data9 Jun 2025
- 2025MOGO: Residual Quantized Hierarchical Causal Transformer for High-Quality and Real-Time 3D Human Motion Generation6 Jun 2025
- 2025InterMamba: Efficient Human-Human Interaction Generation with Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Mamba3 Jun 2025
- 2025Absolute Coordinates Make Motion Generation Easy26 May 2025
- 2025MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animation15 May 2025
- 2025PMG: Progressive Motion Generation via Sparse Anchor Postures Curriculum Learning23 Apr 2025
- 2025MotionGPT3: Human Motion as a Second Modalitycited by 37
- 2025Absolute Coordinates Make Motion Generation Easycited by 29
- 2025X-MoGen: Unified Motion Generation across Humans and Animalscited by 4
- 2025PP-Motion: Physical-Perceptual Fidelity Evaluation for Human Motion Generationcited by 4
- 2026PresentAgent-2: Towards Generalist Multimodal Presentation Agentscited by 4
- 2025MTVCraft: Tokenizing 4D Motion for Arbitrary Character Animationcited by 3
- 2025OmniMotion: Multimodal Motion Generation with Continuous Masked Autoregressioncited by 3
- 2025Think Before You Move: Latent Motion Reasoning for Text-to-Motion Generationcited by 3
- 2025MOGO: Residual Quantized Hierarchical Causal Transformer for High-Quality and Real-Time 3D Human Motion Generationcited by 2
- 2026Language-Guided Transformer Tokenizer for Human Motion Generationcited by 2
- 2026OpenT2M: No-frill Motion Generation with Open-source,Large-scale, High-quality Datacited by 2
- 2026UniMesh: Unifying 3D Mesh Understanding and Generationcited by 2
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- 2026MoSAT: Human Motion Generation from Spatial Audio and Textual Description20 Sep 2026
- 2026UniMo: Unifying Human and Animal Motion Generation11 Sep 2026
- 2026Multi-Modal Controlled Coherent Motion Generation10 Sep 2026
- 2026Human-Centric Intelligence in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey18 Aug 2026
- 2026SkelMo: Universal Skeletal Motion Generation for 3D Rigged Shapes1 Jun 2026
- 2026AnyMo: Scaling Any-Modality Conditional Motion Generation with Masked Modeling28 May 2026
- 2026Multi-scale Coarse-to-fine Modeling for Test-time Human Motion Control14 May 2026
- 2026SCAMP: Sparse-anchor Control is One Small Projection14 May 2026
- 2026PresentAgent-2: Towards Generalist Multimodal Presentation Agents12 May 2026
- 2026UniMesh: Unifying 3D Mesh Understanding and Generation19 Apr 2026
- 2026TeMuDance: Contrastive Alignment-Based Textual Control for Music-Driven Dance Generation18 Apr 2026
- 2026ST-GDance++: A Scalable Spatial-Temporal Diffusion for Long-Duration Group Choreography20 Mar 2026
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