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Bimanual 3D Hand Motion and Articulation Forecasting in Everyday Images

Oct 2025 · arXiv.org · Vol abs/2510.06145 · 1 citation · 79 references
Computer Science

TL;DR

An annotation pipeline consisting of a diffusion model to lift 2D hand keypoint sequences to 4D hand motion and a diffusion loss to account for the multimodality in hand motion distribution is designed.

Abstract

We tackle the problem of forecasting bimanual 3D hand motion and articulation from a single image in everyday settings. To address the lack of 3D hand annotations in diverse settings, we design an annotation pipeline consisting of a diffusion model to lift 2D hand keypoint sequences to 4D hand motion. For the forecasting model, we adopt a diffusion loss to account for the multimodality in hand motion distribution. Extensive experiments on 6 datasets show the benefits of training with our imputed labels (14% improvement) and the effectiveness of our lifting (45% better)&forecasting (16.4% gain) models, over the best baselines, especially in zero-shot generalization to everyday images.

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