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arxiv: 2605.20955 · v1 · pith:2DIHPCITnew · submitted 2026-05-20 · 💻 cs.CV

DrawMotion: Generating 3D Human Motions by Freehand Drawing

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keywords 3D human motion generationtext-to-motionhand-drawn conditionsdiffusion modelsmulti-condition controlspatial guidancestickman sketches
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The pith

DrawMotion generates 3D human motions from both text descriptions and freehand drawings for semantic and spatial control.

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

The paper presents DrawMotion, a diffusion-based system that creates 3D human motions using text for meaning and hand-drawn stick figures for exact positioning and paths. This combination helps users express motions more accurately than text alone can. The framework includes a way to create stickman sketches automatically from existing motion data and a module that blends the two conditions during generation. It also uses guidance during inference to better match user intent. Experiments show users finish tasks faster and with results closer to what they imagined.

Core claim

DrawMotion is a diffusion-based framework for generating 3D human motions conditioned on text and hand-drawing inputs. It develops an algorithm to automatically generate hand-drawn stickman sketches from dataset motions in various formats, proposes a Multi-Condition Module integrated into the diffusion process to handle combinations of conditions, and applies training-free guidance to align outputs with user intentions while maintaining motion quality.

What carries the argument

The Multi-Condition Module (MCM), which fuses text and drawing conditions into the diffusion model's features to enable flexible control and continuous-space updates for guidance.

If this is right

  • Users gain spatial precision in generated motions without needing detailed text descriptions.
  • The approach cuts the time required to produce intended motions by roughly 46.7 percent.
  • Motions can be generated from any mix of available conditions without retraining for each combination.
  • The system preserves motion fidelity while allowing adjustments through guidance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Similar sketching interfaces might improve control in related generation tasks like image or video synthesis.
  • Integrating this with real-time drawing tools could enable interactive motion design sessions.
  • Extending the stick figure representation to include more body details could capture even finer intent.

Load-bearing premise

Hand-drawn stickman sketches generated automatically from motion datasets accurately reflect the spatial details that real users intend to convey in their drawings.

What would settle it

Compare generated motions against user-drawn sketches in a blind test and measure if key spatial features like joint angles and movement paths match within a small error margin.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.20955 by Jiaming Chu, Jian Zhao, Junliang Xing, Lei Jin, Li Wang, Qiaozhi He, Shuicheng Yan, Tao Wang, Yu Cheng, Zhihua Wu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Pipeline of DrawMotion inference. In addition to the training￾based guidance, a training-free guidance updates the intermediate feature of the model within the MD boundary to ensure that the generations meet the conditions while maintaining its fidelity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: 2) Multi-Condition Fusion. Previous works [1], [9] achieve all possible combinations of two conditions via the mask operation for condition input in self-attention [1], [10] module, but this introduces redundant computation when calculating the masked-token attention. We instead design an efficient Multi-Condition Module (MCM) to process multi￾ple conditions, as detailed in Section III-C. 3) Trajectory ali… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Stickmen generated by Stickman Generation Algorithm on the KIT-ML [62] and HumanML3D [38] datasets. human joints from existing motion datasets to automatically generate hand-drawn stickmen. Considering the characteristics of human hand-drawing, we take into account the following aspects: 1) Stroke smoothness. The smoothness of strokes is influenced by force and individual preferences. Moreover, the smoothn… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The DrawMotion framework consists of the diffusion process (left) and the network structure (right). 1) The diffusion process includes a forward and a reverse process. In the forward process, original motions are augmented with Gaussian noise and fed into DrawMotion, which learns to predict the added noise based on textual descriptions and hand-drawn sketches. In the reverse process, user-provided textual … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Conceptual illustration of intermediate feature distributions. The dashed lines correspond to level sets of the probability density function. (a) Ordinary models yield discrete clusters, (b) MCM forms a relatively continuous space, and (c) VAE enforces full latent coverage. This schematic is supported by Table I. refine the motion. Current methods ensure the fidelity of the generated motion in two ways: 1)… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: 2D PCA projection onto the first two principal components of different condition settings in DrawMotion. Sample size = 20,000 and diffusion step = 299. structure. This continuity arises from the intrinsic properties of the multi-condition fusion process. Specifically, each condition (e.g., text or drawing) is encoded into a feature representation that may lie on a low-dimensional nonlinear manifold. The Mi… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: 2D PCA projection onto the first two principal components of ReMoDiffuse and DrawMotion. Sample size = 80,000 and diffusion step = 299 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Visualization of DrawMotion (see the animation on GitHub) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Visual comparison between ReModiffuse, StickMotion, and DrawMotion: 1) This user attempted to make the generated trajectory resemble the emblem from Naruto and specified that, at a designated position along the trajectory, the action should involve raising the left hand high. 2) This user simply wrote the letter ”m”, without specifying a stickman. (see the animation on GitHub). TABLE XI: The time consumpti… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Text-to-motion generation, which translates textual descriptions into human motions, faces the challenge that users often struggle to precisely convey their intended motions through text alone. To address this issue, this paper introduces DrawMotion, an efficient diffusion-based framework designed for multi-condition scenarios. DrawMotion generates motions based on both a conventional text condition and a novel hand-drawing condition, which provide semantic and spatial control over the generated motions, respectively. Specifically, we tackle the fine-grained motion generation task from three perspectives: 1) freehand drawing condition. To accurately capture users' intended motions without requiring tedious textual input, we develop an algorithm to automatically generate hand-drawn stickman sketches across different dataset formats; 2) multi-condition fusion. We propose a Multi-Condition Module (MCM) that is integrated into the diffusion process, enabling the model to exploit all possible condition combinations while reducing computational complexity compared to conventional approaches; and 3) training-free guidance. Notably, the MCM in DrawMotion ensures that its intermediate features lie in a continuous space, allowing classifier-guidance gradients to update the features and thereby aligning the generated motions with user intentions while preserving fidelity. Quantitative experiments and user studies demonstrate that the freehand drawing approach reduces user time by approximately 46.7% when generating motions aligned with their imagination. The code, demos, and relevant data are publicly available at https://github.com/InvertedForest/DrawMotion.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces DrawMotion, a diffusion-based framework for 3D human motion generation that combines conventional text conditioning for semantic control with a novel hand-drawing condition for spatial control. Key technical elements include an algorithm that automatically converts dataset motions into hand-drawn stickman sketches, a Multi-Condition Module (MCM) integrated into the diffusion process to handle arbitrary condition combinations, and training-free classifier guidance that operates on the continuous feature space produced by the MCM. Quantitative experiments and user studies are reported to support a 46.7% reduction in user time for producing motions aligned with user intent, with code and demos released publicly.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work provides a practical and intuitive extension to text-to-motion generation by incorporating freehand sketches as an additional spatial prior. This could meaningfully improve controllability in applications such as animation and virtual reality. The public release of code, demos, and data is a clear strength that aids reproducibility and follow-up research. The approach builds on established diffusion techniques rather than introducing entirely new paradigms.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (freehand drawing condition): The training pipeline relies on automatically generated stickman sketches derived from dataset motions, yet no ablation or out-of-distribution test evaluates performance when real user drawings—with their inherent variability in stroke thickness, proportions, and joint angles—are supplied at inference time. Because the MCM and training-free guidance depend on continuous feature-space alignment, this domain gap directly threatens the claimed reliability of spatial control.
  2. [User-study evaluation] User-study evaluation: The reported 46.7% time savings is presented as evidence of practical utility, but the study description does not report quantitative metrics (e.g., Fréchet Motion Distance or joint-angle error) comparing motions generated from real freehand sketches versus the synthetic training distribution, leaving the alignment claim only partially supported.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that the MCM 'reduces computational complexity compared to conventional approaches' without naming the baselines or providing FLOPs/latency numbers; a brief comparison table would clarify this advantage.
  2. [§4] Notation for the MCM feature concatenation and guidance gradient computation could be made more explicit, especially for readers who may not immediately see how the continuous-space property enables classifier guidance.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our work. We address each major comment point by point below, offering clarifications based on the manuscript and outlining planned revisions to strengthen the evaluation.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (freehand drawing condition): The training pipeline relies on automatically generated stickman sketches derived from dataset motions, yet no ablation or out-of-distribution test evaluates performance when real user drawings—with their inherent variability in stroke thickness, proportions, and joint angles—are supplied at inference time. Because the MCM and training-free guidance depend on continuous feature-space alignment, this domain gap directly threatens the claimed reliability of spatial control.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation regarding the training distribution. The automatic sketch generation algorithm was developed specifically to create paired training data that matches the motion datasets across formats, ensuring the model learns consistent spatial mappings. The user studies in the paper did involve participants supplying their own freehand drawings at inference time, with the 46.7% time reduction reflecting real usage. The MCM's continuous feature space and training-free guidance are designed to support such inputs by allowing gradient-based alignment without retraining. To directly address the domain gap concern, the revised manuscript will include an out-of-distribution ablation using a collected set of real user drawings with natural variability, reporting metrics such as Fréchet Motion Distance to quantify robustness. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [User-study evaluation] User-study evaluation: The reported 46.7% time savings is presented as evidence of practical utility, but the study description does not report quantitative metrics (e.g., Fréchet Motion Distance or joint-angle error) comparing motions generated from real freehand sketches versus the synthetic training distribution, leaving the alignment claim only partially supported.

    Authors: We agree that the current user-study presentation focuses on time efficiency and subjective alignment rather than explicit quantitative motion-quality metrics for real versus synthetic inputs. This leaves room for stronger substantiation of the spatial control claims. In the revised manuscript, we will expand the evaluation section to include direct comparisons using metrics such as Fréchet Motion Distance and average joint-angle error between motions produced from real freehand sketches and those from the synthetic training distribution, while retaining the time-savings results. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces DrawMotion as a diffusion-based framework that augments standard text-to-motion generation with a hand-drawing condition via an auto-generated stickman sketch algorithm, a Multi-Condition Module (MCM) for fusion, and training-free classifier guidance. These additions are presented as engineering extensions rather than derivations that reduce to their own inputs by construction; the hand-drawing training data is produced by a separate algorithm applied to existing motion datasets, and performance is asserted through quantitative metrics and user studies measuring time savings. No equations, self-citations, or fitted parameters are shown in the provided text to create a self-definitional loop or to rename a fitted quantity as an independent prediction. The central claims therefore remain self-contained against external benchmarks such as standard diffusion models and empirical validation.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review is based on abstract only; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are detailed beyond standard diffusion model components and the introduced MCM.

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