We propose Social Diffusion, a novel method for shortterm and long-term forecasting of the motion of multiple persons as well as their social interactions. Jointly forecasting motions for multiple persons involved in social activities is inherently a challenging problem due to the interdependencies between individuals. In this work, we leverage a diffusion model conditioned on motion histories and causal temporal convolutional networks to forecast individually and contextually plausible motions for all participants. The contextual plausibility is achieved via an orderinvariant aggregation function. As a second contribution, we design a new evaluation protocol that measures the plausibility of social interactions which we evaluate on the Haggling dataset, which features a challenging social activity where people are actively taking turns to talk and switching their attention. We evaluate our approach on four datasets for multi-person forecasting where our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art in terms of motion realism and contextual plausibility.
Citation:
Julian Tanke, Linguang Zhang, Amy Zhao, Chengcheng Tang, Yujun Cai, Lezi Wang, Po-Chen Wu, Juergen Gall, and Cem Keskin. Social Diffusion: Long-term Multiple Human Motion Anticipation.
Further information:
https://pages.iai.uni-bonn.de/gall_juergen/download/jgall_socialdiffusion_iccv23.pdf