Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters
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Date
2026
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
Motion tracking has been an important technique for imitating human-like movement from large-scale datasets in physics-based motion synthesis. However, existing approaches focus on tracking either single character or a particular type of interaction, limiting their ability to handle contact-rich interactions. Extending single-character tracking approaches suffers from instability due to forces transferred through contacts. Contact-rich interactions require levels of control that place greater demands on model capacity. To this end, we propose a robust tracking method based on progressive neural networks (PNN) where multiple experts specialize in learning skills of various difficulties. Our method automatically assigns training samples to experts without manual scheduling. Both qualitative and quantitative results show that our method delivers more stable motion tracking in densely interactive movements while enabling more efficient model training.
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@article{10.1111:cgf.70336,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters}},
author = {Zhang, Xiaotang and Chang, Ziyi and Men, Qianhui and Shum, Hubert P. H.},
year = {2026},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.70336}
}