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Diverse Human Motion Prediction via Gumbel-Softmax Sampling from an Auxiliary Space
Diverse human motion prediction aims at predicting multiple possible future
pose sequences from a sequence of observed poses. Previous approaches usually
employ deep generative networks to model the conditional distribution of data,
and then randomly sample outcomes from the distribution. While different
results can be obtained, they are usually the most likely ones which are not
diverse enough. Recent work explicitly learns multiple modes of the conditional
distribution via a deterministic network, which however can only cover a fixed
number of modes within a limited range. In this paper, we propose a novel
sampling strategy for sampling very diverse results from an imbalanced
multimodal distribution learned by a deep generative model. Our method works by
generating an auxiliary space and smartly making randomly sampling from the
auxiliary space equivalent to the diverse sampling from the target
distribution. We propose a simple yet effective network architecture that
implements this novel sampling strategy, which incorporates a Gumbel-Softmax
coefficient matrix sampling method and an aggressive diversity promoting hinge
loss function. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly
improves both the diversity and accuracy of the samplings compared with
previous state-of-the-art sampling approaches. Code and pre-trained models are
available at https://github.com/Droliven/diverse_sampling.Comment: Paper and Supp of our work accepted by ACM MM 202