Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters

Xiaotang Zhang, Ziyi Chang, Qianhui Men and Hubert P. H. Shum
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) - Proccedings of the 2026 Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics), 2026

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Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters

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 the instability due to the challenge of forces transferred through contacts. Contact-rich interactions requires levels of control, which places much greater demands on model capacity. To this end, we propose a robust tracking method based on progressive neural network (PNN) where multiple experts are specialized in learning skills of various difficulties. Our method learns to assign training samples to experts automatically without requiring manually 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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Xiaotang Zhang, Ziyi Chang, Qianhui Men and Hubert P. H. Shum, "Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters," Computer Graphics Forum, Wiley, 2026.

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@article{zhang26physics,
 author={Zhang, Xiaotang and Chang, Ziyi and Men, Qianhui and Shum, Hubert P. H.},
 journal={Computer Graphics Forum},
 title={Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters},
 year={2026},
 publisher={Wiley},
}

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zhang, Xiaotang
AU  - Chang, Ziyi
AU  - Men, Qianhui
AU  - Shum, Hubert P. H.
T2  - Computer Graphics Forum
TI  - Physics-Based Motion Tracking of Contact-Rich Interacting Characters
PY  - 2026
PB  - Wiley
ER  - 


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