# UPTor: Unified 3D Human Pose Dynamics and Trajectory Prediction for Human-Robot Interaction

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14866 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.14866/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 26 of its 44 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 20 May 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 26 of 26)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Graph Attention Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1710.10903/) (2017)
- [Self-Attention with Relative Position Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.02155/) (2018)
- [Human Motion Diffusion Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14916/) (2022)
- [Social GAN: Socially Acceptable Trajectories with Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.10892/) (2018)
- [On human motion prediction using recurrent neural networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.02445/) (2017)
- [Human Motion Trajectory Prediction: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.06113/) (2019)
- [Long-term Human Motion Prediction with Scene Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.03672/) (2020)
- [DLow: Diversifying Latent Flows for Diverse Human Motion Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.08386/) (2020)
- [InterDiff: Generating 3D Human-Object Interactions with Physics-Informed Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.16905/) (2023)
- [Transformer Networks for Trajectory Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.08111/) (2020)
- [Multi-Agent Tensor Fusion for Contextual Trajectory Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.04776/) (2019)
- [Back to MLP: A Simple Baseline for Human Motion Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.01567/) (2022)
- [EqMotion: Equivariant Multi-agent Motion Prediction with Invariant Interaction Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.10876/) (2023)
- [BeLFusion: Latent Diffusion for Behavior-Driven Human Motion Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.14304/) (2022)
- [Social Ways: Learning Multi-Modal Distributions of Pedestrian Trajectories with GANs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.09507/) (2019)
- [Progressively Generating Better Initial Guesses Towards Next Stages for High-Quality Human Motion Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.16051/) (2022)
- [Multi-Person 3D Motion Prediction with Multi-Range Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12073/) (2021)
- [TRiPOD: Human Trajectory and Pose Dynamics Forecasting in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.04029/) (2021)
- [Socially and Contextually Aware Human Motion and Pose Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.06843/) (2020)
- [Pose Transformers (POTR): Human Motion Prediction with Non-Autoregressive Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.07531/) (2021)
- [MeTRAbs: Metric-Scale Truncation-Robust Heatmaps for Absolute 3D Human Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.07227/) (2020)
- [Disentangling Human Dynamics for Pedestrian Locomotion Forecasting with Noisy Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.01138/) (2019)
- [Simple Baseline for Single Human Motion Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.07495/) (2021)
- [TransFusion: A Practical and Effective Transformer-based Diffusion Model for 3D Human Motion Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.16106/) (2023)
- [AnyPose: Anytime 3D Human Pose Forecasting via Neural Ordinary Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.04840/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.07357/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce a unified approach to forecast the dynamics of human keypoints along with the motion trajectory based on a short sequence of input poses. While many studies address either full-body pose prediction or motion trajectory prediction, only a few attempt to merge them. We propose a motion transformation technique to simultaneously predict full-body pose and trajectory key-points in a global coordinate frame. We utilize an off-the-shelf 3D human pose estimation module, a graph attention network to encode the skeleton structure, and a compact, non-autoregressive transformer suitable for real-time motion prediction for human-robot interaction and human-aware navigation. We introduce a human navigation dataset ``DARKO'' with specific focus on navigational activities that are relevant for human-aware mobile robot navigation. We perform extensive evaluation on Human3.6M, CMU-Mocap, and our DARKO dataset. In comparison to prior work, we show that our approach is compact, real-time, and accurate in predicting human navigation motion across all datasets. Result animations, our dataset, and code will be available at https://nisarganc.github.io/UPTor-page/