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Most Influential ICML 2025 Paper · 2026-03 edition

MimicMotion: High-Quality Human Motion Video Generation with Confidence-aware Pose Guidance

Yuang Zhang, Jiaxi Gu, Li-Wen Wang, Han Wang, Yuefeng Zhu, FangYuan Zou

Venue
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025
Recognition
Most Influential ICML 2025 Paper (Rank No. 9)
Edition
2026-03
Impact factor
4
Certificate ID
a536d7eb737e5601

Abstract

In recent years, while generative AI has advanced significantly in image generation, video generation continues to face challenges in controllability, length, and detail quality, which hinder its application. We present MimicMotion, a framework for generating high-quality human videos of arbitrary length using motion guidance. Our approach has several highlights. Firstly, we introduce confidence-aware pose guidance that ensures high frame quality and temporal smoothness. Secondly, we introduce regional loss amplification based on pose confidence, which reduces image distortion in key regions. Lastly, we propose a progressive latent fusion strategy to generate long and smooth videos. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in producing high-quality human motion videos. Videos and comparisons are available at [https://tencent.github.io/MimicMotion](https://tencent.github.io/MimicMotion).

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