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Research paperImage, Video & 3D Generation · Robotics & Embodied AI · Computer Vision1 source · Oct 7, 2026

HuLiGen: Human LiDAR Generation from Parametric Body Models

In contrast, we introduce HuLiGen, a generative model that generates human LiDAR point clouds from a parametric body model, using a point transformer trained with a flow-matching objective.

Key points

  • LiDAR point clouds of humans are extremely expensive to collect and annotate, thus represent a scarce resource that hinders the development of human analysis using this modality.
  • To alleviate this scarcity, prior work relies on simulated human LiDAR, but such samples do not fully reflect the geometry and sensing characteristics of real observations.
  • We show that our generated point clouds are closer to the real capture distribution.
  • Using HuLiGen to generate synthetic data, we propose a synthetic-only pretraining scheme for LiDAR-based HPE that achieves state-of-the-art performance, with even larger gains in low-annotation and low-data regimes, where MPJPE is reduced by up to 50%.

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  • [1]HuLiGen: Human LiDAR Generation from Parametric Body Models
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 7, 02:58 PM
    In contrast, we introduce HuLiGen, a generative model that generates human LiDAR point clouds from a parametric body model, using a point transformer trained with a flow-matching objective.
    LiDAR point clouds of humans are extremely expensive to collect and annotate, thus represent a scarce resource that hinders the development of human analysis using this modality.

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