StableMotion: Training Motion Cleanup Models with Unpaired Corrupted Data

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

Yuxuan Mu (1)    Hung Yu Ling (2)    Yi Shi (1)    Ismael Baira Ojeda (2)    Pengcheng Xi (3)    Chang Shu (3)    Fabio Zinno (2)    Xue Bin Peng (1,4)

(1) Simon Fraser University    (2) Electronic Arts    (3) National Research Council Canada    (4) NVIDIA

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Abstract

Motion capture (mocap) data often exhibits visually jarring artifacts due to inaccurate sensors and post-processing. Cleaning this corrupted data can require substantial manual effort from human experts, which can be a costly and time-consuming process. Previous data-driven motion cleanup methods offer the promise of automating this cleanup process, but often require in-domain paired corrupted-to-clean training data. Constructing such paired datasets requires access to high-quality, relatively artifact-free motion clips, which often necessitates laborious manual cleanup. In this work, we present StableMotion, a simple yet effective method for training motion cleanup models directly from unpaired corrupted datasets that need cleanup. The core component of our method is the introduction of motion quality indicators, which can be easily annotated— through manual labeling or heuristic algorithms—and enable training of quality-aware motion generation models on raw motion data with mixed quality. At test time, the model can be prompted to generate high-quality motions using the quality indicators. Our method can be implemented through a simple diffusion-based framework, leading to a unified motion generate-discriminate model, which can be used to both identify and fix corrupted frames. We demonstrate that our proposed method is effective for training motion cleanup models on raw mocap data in production scenarios by applying StableMotion to SoccerMocap, a 245-hour soccer mocap dataset containing real-world motion artifacts. The trained model effectively corrects a wide range of motion artifacts, reducing motion pops and frozen frames by 68% and 81%, respectively. On our benchmark dataset, we further show that cleanup models trained with our method on unpaired corrupted data outperform state-of-the-art methods trained on clean or paired data, while also achieving comparable performance in preserving the content of the original motion clips.

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Bibtex

@inproceedings{
    mu2025StableMotion,
    author={Mu, Yuxuan and Ling, Hung Yu and Shi, Yi and Ojeda, Ismael Baira and Xi, Pengcheng and Shu, Chang and Zinno, Fabio and Peng, Xue Bin},
    title = {StableMotion: Training Motion Cleanup Models with Unpaired Corrupted Data},
    year = {2025},
    booktitle = {SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers (SIGGRAPH Asia '25 Conference Papers)}
}