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StepControl: Long-Horizon Human Motion Generation from Foot-Contact Schedules
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Controllable human motion generation has largely focused on specifying what action should occur or where the body should move. We study a complementary question: can full-body motion be controlled by specifying only when each foot contacts the ground? We introduce StepControl, an autoregressive diffusion model conditioned on a future binary left/right foot-contact schedule, without requiring target root and body poses, or semantic prompts. StepControl represents contact as explicit temporal events and injects them through dedicated cross-attention with classifier-free guidance. We further introduce a stochastic mixture noise schedule and warmup strategy for stable long-horizon autoregressive generation. Experiments show that StepControl follows prescribed contact timing more accurately than adapting existing spatially guided motion generators to contact constraints. It maintains effective contact control over long continuous rollouts and responds to edited schedules such as cadence changes, stop-and-go pauses, limping gaits, and bilateral jumping. Our results show that minimal foot-contact schedules provide an effective and intuitive temporal interface for controllable motion generation.
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StepControl: Long-Horizon Human Motion Generation from Foot-Contact Schedules
Controllable human motion generation has largely focused on specifying what action should occur or where the body should move. We study a complementary question: can full-body motion be controlled by specifying only when each foot contacts the ground? We introduce StepControl, an autoregressive diffusion model conditioned on a future binary left/right foot-contact schedule, without requiring target root and body poses, or semantic prompts. StepControl represents contact as explicit temporal events and injects them through dedicated cross-attention with classifier-free guidance. We further introduce a stochastic mixture noise schedule and warmup strategy for stable long-horizon autoregressive generation. Experiments show that StepControl follows prescribed contact timing more accurately than adapting existing spatially guided motion generators to contact constraints. It maintains effective contact control over long continuous rollouts and responds to edited schedules such as cadence changes, stop-and-go pauses, limping gaits, and bilateral jumping. Our results show that minimal foot-contact schedules provide an effective and intuitive temporal interface for controllable motion generation.
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