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arxiv: 2605.19620 · v1 · pith:BIULOMJYnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 💻 cs.CV

B\'ezier Degradation Modeling for LiDAR-based Human Motion Capture

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keywords LiDARhuman motion captureBézier curves3D pose estimationocclusion handlingmotion reconstructiontemporal coherence
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The pith

Bézier curve compression of motion trajectories enables accurate 3D human pose recovery from occluded and noisy LiDAR data.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes that human motion can be represented as temporally compressible Bézier curves whose control points are reduced by a trajectory-preserving strategy, creating a coherent representation suitable for learning from partial observations. A progressive reconstruction module then predicts curves at multiple temporal scales with a Time-scale Motion Transformer and fuses them via a Multi-level Motion Aggregator to fill gaps caused by occlusions and noise. This coarse-to-fine process yields more accurate and temporally stable poses than prior methods. The claim matters for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics, where LiDAR inputs are frequently incomplete yet reliable motion capture is required.

Core claim

BMLiCap models motion using temporally compressible Bézier curves. By reducing control points through a trajectory-preserving strategy, it obtains a coherent and learning-friendly motion representation. The progressive motion-reconstruction module introduces a Time-scale Motion Transformer to predict motion curves at multiple temporal scales and a Multi-level Motion Aggregator to adaptively fuse the multi-scale curves, recovering detailed and temporally coherent poses from LiDAR point-cloud cues.

What carries the argument

Trajectory-preserving reduction of Bézier control points that produces a compressible yet detail-retaining motion representation, processed by the multi-scale Time-scale Motion Transformer and Multi-level Motion Aggregator for progressive pose recovery.

If this is right

  • Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and temporal continuity across the LiDARHuman26M, FreeMotion, NoiseMotion, and SLOPER4D benchmarks.
  • Compensates for severe occlusions by bridging observation gaps with multi-scale curve prediction and fusion.
  • Reduces prediction jitter while maintaining motion coherence in complex scenes.
  • Produces a learning-friendly motion representation that supports stable reconstruction from unstable LiDAR inputs.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same control-point reduction idea could be tested on other sparse time-series sensor streams such as radar or event-camera data for motion tracking.
  • Multi-scale curve fusion might transfer to video-based or RGB-D pose estimation pipelines facing similar temporal dropout.
  • Fewer control points per trajectory could lower memory and compute costs enough to support onboard processing in mobile robotics.

Load-bearing premise

The trajectory-preserving strategy for reducing Bézier control points retains enough motion detail to allow accurate reconstruction from partial LiDAR observations without introducing systematic bias in pose recovery.

What would settle it

Run the reduced-control-point Bézier model on a synthetic dataset of ground-truth motions known to require high-frequency details that low-order curves cannot preserve; if reconstruction error rises above that of an uncompressed baseline under identical occlusion patterns, the core assumption does not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.19620 by Chen Gong, Jian Yang, Jun Li, Lin Zhao, Xiaoqi An.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: BMLiCap models human motion by Bezier curves. ´ Our contributions mainly include: (a) a novel Bezier degradation ´ method for generating easy-to-learn motion representations; (b) a progressive motion reconstruction model conditioned on LiDAR point clouds in a coarse-to-fine manner, compensating for severe input occlusions. tical alternatives based on RGB or RGB-D inputs [3, 5, 36, 49, 83] have been propose… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Analysis of motion approximation error using B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: The pipeline of our proposed BMLiCap framework. During training, we first apply the B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: A demonstration of trajectory-aware Bezier degrada- ´ tion, we not only resample the control points but also adjust their lengths to better fit the finest curve. During training, we supervise the network to pre￾dict these multi-level motion representations, enabling the model with coarse-to-fine motion reconstruction capability. 3.2. Progressive Motion Reconstruction Overall Architecture. To effectively le… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Sequential visualization. Even under severe occlusion, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Single frame visual comparisons. On samples with special motion or severe [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visualization of the predicted intermediate B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Attention map of different occlusion levels. The atten [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
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LiDAR-based 3D human motion capture has broad applications in fields such as autonomous driving and robotics, where accurate motion reconstruction is crucial. However, existing methods often struggle with unstable inputs and severe occlusions, leading to jittery or even failed pose predictions. To address these challenges, we propose BMLiCap, a coarse-to-fine framework that models motion using temporally compressible B\'ezier curves. By reducing control points through a trajectory-preserving strategy, we obtain a coherent and learning-friendly motion representation. To reconstruct human actions from LiDAR point-cloud cues, we design a progressive motion-reconstruction module. Specifically, a Time-scale Motion Transformer (TMT) is introduced to predict motion curves at multiple temporal scales, and a Multi-level Motion Aggregator (MMA) is utilized to adaptively fuse the multi-scale curves to recover detailed, temporally coherent poses, effectively bridging observation gaps caused by occlusions and noise. Across four mainstream benchmarks LiDARHuman26M, FreeMotion, NoiseMotion, and SLOPER4D, BMLiCap achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and temporal continuity in complex scenes, demonstrating its ability to compensate for severe occlusions and reduce prediction jitter.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents BMLiCap, a coarse-to-fine framework for LiDAR-based 3D human motion capture. It models motion with temporally compressible Bézier curves, applies a trajectory-preserving strategy to reduce control points for a coherent representation, and uses a progressive reconstruction module with a Time-scale Motion Transformer (TMT) to predict multi-scale curves and a Multi-level Motion Aggregator (MMA) to fuse them adaptively. The central claim is that this approach achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and temporal continuity on the LiDARHuman26M, FreeMotion, NoiseMotion, and SLOPER4D benchmarks by compensating for severe occlusions and reducing jitter.

Significance. If the quantitative results and ablations hold, the work would offer a meaningful advance in robust LiDAR mocap by introducing a Bézier-based motion representation that supports multi-scale fusion for handling missing observations. The TMT and MMA components provide a structured way to bridge temporal gaps, which could benefit applications in autonomous driving and robotics. The paper ships a clear high-level architecture and identifies a plausible failure mode (jitter under occlusion) that the method targets.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: the SOTA claims on four benchmarks are asserted without any quantitative tables, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or error analysis (e.g., MPJPE, jitter metrics, or occlusion-specific breakdowns), which is load-bearing for the central claim that the method compensates for occlusions and reduces jitter.
  2. [Method (Bézier Degradation Modeling)] Method section on Bézier degradation modeling: the trajectory-preserving strategy for control-point reduction is presented as retaining sufficient motion detail, yet low-order Bézier fits can attenuate high-frequency components (sharp accelerations at foot strikes or hand gestures); this risks systematic bias in pose recovery from partial LiDAR observations that the subsequent TMT+MMA fusion may not fully compensate, directly challenging the occlusion-robustness claim.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Method] Clarify the exact mathematical definition of the trajectory-preserving reduction (e.g., how control points are selected or optimized) and the temporal scales used in TMT to aid reproducibility.
  2. [Introduction] Add a short related-work paragraph contrasting the Bézier representation with prior spline or polynomial motion models in human pose estimation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and the recommendation for major revision. We have reviewed the comments carefully and provide detailed point-by-point responses below. Where revisions are warranted, we commit to incorporating them to strengthen the manuscript's clarity and support for its claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: the SOTA claims on four benchmarks are asserted without any quantitative tables, baseline comparisons, ablation studies, or error analysis (e.g., MPJPE, jitter metrics, or occlusion-specific breakdowns), which is load-bearing for the central claim that the method compensates for occlusions and reduces jitter.

    Authors: We acknowledge the referee's concern regarding the presentation of results. The Experiments section does contain quantitative tables reporting MPJPE and other metrics across the four benchmarks (LiDARHuman26M, FreeMotion, NoiseMotion, SLOPER4D), along with comparisons to baselines and ablations on TMT and MMA. Jitter metrics are included to support temporal continuity claims. However, to make the occlusion-robustness argument more explicit and load-bearing, we will add dedicated occlusion-specific error breakdowns and expanded analysis in the revised Experiments section. This will directly address the central claim without altering the existing results. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Method (Bézier Degradation Modeling)] Method section on Bézier degradation modeling: the trajectory-preserving strategy for control-point reduction is presented as retaining sufficient motion detail, yet low-order Bézier fits can attenuate high-frequency components (sharp accelerations at foot strikes or hand gestures); this risks systematic bias in pose recovery from partial LiDAR observations that the subsequent TMT+MMA fusion may not fully compensate, directly challenging the occlusion-robustness claim.

    Authors: We appreciate this insightful observation on potential limitations of low-order Bézier representations. While Bézier curves can smooth high-frequency details, the trajectory-preserving strategy prioritizes control points that capture key motion dynamics, and the multi-scale TMT explicitly predicts curves at varying temporal resolutions to recover both low- and high-frequency components. The MMA then performs adaptive fusion to mitigate any residual attenuation. We will add a targeted discussion and supporting ablation on high-frequency motion preservation (e.g., foot-strike and gesture analysis) in the revised Method and Experiments sections to further substantiate that TMT+MMA compensates effectively under occlusion. revision: partial

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No circularity: derivation chain is self-contained and externally grounded

full rationale

The paper introduces a coarse-to-fine Bézier curve modeling framework with a trajectory-preserving control-point reduction, followed by a Time-scale Motion Transformer (TMT) and Multi-level Motion Aggregator (MMA) for pose reconstruction from LiDAR observations. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce any central prediction or uniqueness claim back to the same data or prior author work by construction. The approach is evaluated on four independent external benchmarks (LiDARHuman26M, FreeMotion, NoiseMotion, SLOPER4D), with performance claims resting on those standard datasets rather than internal redefinitions or self-referential fits. This satisfies the criteria for a self-contained derivation without load-bearing circular steps.

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Paper introduces new modeling strategy and network modules whose internal parameters and design choices are not detailed in the abstract.

invented entities (3)
  • Bézier degradation modeling no independent evidence
    purpose: Provide temporally compressible and coherent motion representation
    Core modeling choice introduced to address jitter and occlusion
  • Time-scale Motion Transformer (TMT) no independent evidence
    purpose: Predict motion curves at multiple temporal scales
    New module for progressive reconstruction
  • Multi-level Motion Aggregator (MMA) no independent evidence
    purpose: Adaptively fuse multi-scale curves to recover detailed poses
    New module for bridging observation gaps

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