Conditional motion generation has been extensively studied in computer vision, yet two critical challenges remain. First, while masked autoregressive methods have recently outperformed diffusion-based approaches, existing masking models lack a mechanism to prioritize dynamic frames and body parts based on given conditions. Second, existing methods for different conditioning modalities often fail to integrate multiple modalities effectively, limiting control and coherence in generated motion. To address these challenges, we propose Motion Anything, a multimodal motion generation framework that introduces an Attention-based Mask Modeling approach, enabling fine-grained spatial and temporal control over key frames and actions. Our model adaptively encodes multimodal conditions, including text and music, improving controllability. Additionally, we introduce Text-Music-Dance (TMD), a new motion dataset consisting of 2,153 pairs of text, music, and dance, making it twice the size of AIST++, thereby filling a critical gap in the community. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Motion Anything surpasses state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks, achieving a 15% improvement in FID on HumanML3D and showing consistent performance gains on AIST++ and TMD.
Motion Anything Architecture. The multimodal architecture consists of several key components: (a) temporal and (c) spatial attention-based masking, (b) motion generator, and (d) a single block of motion generator. These components enable the model to learn key motions corresponding to the given conditions, and facilitate alignment between multi-modal conditions and motion features.
Motion Anything is an any-to-motion method for generating high-quality, controllable human motion under multimodal conditions, including text queries, background music and a mix of both.
@article{zhang2025motion,
title={Motion Anything: Any to Motion Generation},
author={Zhang, Zeyu and Wang, Yiran and Mao, Wei and Li, Danning and Zhao, Rui and Wu, Biao and Song, Zirui and Zhuang, Bohan and Reid, Ian and Hartley, Richard},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06955},
year={2025}
}