Can a Single Video Generate Humanoid Motion Data?(reddit.com)

I've been experimenting with converting ordinary third-person videos into humanoid motion data. This demo includes several motion categories: • Acting • Sports • Combat • Dance The motivation is not animation alone. Recent humanoid robotics work increasingly relies on large-scale motion datasets and motion priors to improve movement quality, robustness, and generalization. Projects such as NVIDIA KIMODO also show the value of scaling high-quality motion data for downstream humanoid motion generation and control. This made me wonder whether ordinary videos could become a low-cost source of motion data for humanoid systems. There is already a massive amount of human motion available in online videos. If useful motion can be extracted reliably, it may help expand humanoid motion datasets beyond traditional mocap pipelines. For this experiment, I focused on: • Foot contact stability • Reduced foot sliding • Natural balance and movement dynamics • Consistency across different motion styles The long-term idea is: Video → Motion Data → Motion Models → Humanoid Control For anyone interested in testing their own clips, I made a public demo available here: huggingface demo I'd love to hear thoughts from people working on humanoid robotics, motion generation, imitation learning, or robot locomotion. submitted by /u/AIMoCap [link] [Kommentare]