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Zhengyuan Li

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arXiv2026

Branch-Centric Tokenization and Test-Time Augmentation for Skeleton Generation

Automatic skeleton generation involves predicting both joint positions and skeletal connectivity. However, existing approaches struggle to encode branch structures into token sequences and do not use test-time computation effectively. We study these choices within a unified autoregressive framework. First, we introduce branch-centric tokenization, a branch-aware representation that places structurally related elements next to each other and encodes connectivity directly in the sequence. Compared with standard BFS-style serialization, this representation yields more compact sequences. Second, we introduce view-augmented generation, a test-time augmentation procedure that applies axis-aligned rotations to the input mesh, maps all predictions back to a common frame, and selects the final skeleton based on mesh coverage and consistency among predictions from different views. Experiments show that our method achieves better skeleton prediction accuracy than state-of-the-art methods. In particular, our method reduces the CD-J2B error by 16.9% on the Articulation-XL2.0 dataset compared to the strongest directly comparable baseline, Auto-Connect. Qualitative results on in-the-wild meshes further demonstrate generalization across diverse inputs.

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arXiv2026

PoseShield: Neural Collision Fields for Human Self-Collision Resolution

Self-collision remains a persistent challenge in SMPL-based human pose estimation and motion generation. Under extreme articulations or stochastic motion synthesis, generated meshes frequently exhibit self-penetrations, leading to physically implausible results. We propose PoseShield, a neural collision constraint defined directly in SMPL pose space. We formulate collision correction as a constrained optimization problem and connect the learned constraint with the Eikonal equation. Enforcing Eikonal regularization ensures non-vanishing gradients near the collision boundary, improving numerical stability and robustness of the optimization process. Unlike prior methods that operate in the mesh space or rely on heuristic penalties, our approach operates directly in the low-dimensional space of human poses and is theoretically grounded. The same learned constraint extends to human motion sequences, providing a generator-agnostic post-hoc collision corrector without retraining the underlying motion model. Experiments on a newly constructed SMPL pose benchmark show that our method achieves a 95.8% success rate and outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

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