SocialMirror: Reconstructing 3D Human Interaction Behaviors from Monocular Videos with Semantic and Geometric Guidance
Qi Xia, Peishan Cong, Ziyi Wang, Yujing Sun, Qin Sun, Xinge Zhu, Mao Ye, Ruigang Yang, Yuexin Ma
- Year
- 2026
- Access
- Open access
Abstract
Accurately reconstructing human behavior in close-interaction scenarios is crucial for enabling realistic virtual interactions in augmented reality, precise motion analysis in sports, and natural collaborative behavior in human-robot tasks. Reliable reconstruction in these contexts significantly enhances the realism and effectiveness of AI-driven interactive applications. However, human reconstruction from monocular videos in close-interaction scenarios remains challenging due to severe mutual occlusions, leading local motion ambiguity, disrupted temporal continuity and spatial relationship error. In this paper, we propose SocialMirror, a diffusion-based framework that integrates semantic and geometric cues to effectively address these issues. Specifically, we first leverage high-level interaction descriptions generated by a vision-language model to guide a semantic-guided motion infiller, hallucinating occluded bodies and resolving local pose ambiguities. Next, we propose a sequence-level temporal refiner that enforces smooth, jitter-free motions, while incorporating geometric constraints during sampling to ensure plausible contact and spatial relationships. Evaluations on multiple interaction benchmarks show that SocialMirror achieves state-of-the-art performance in reconstructing interactive human meshes, demonstrating strong generalization across unseen datasets and in-the-wild scenarios. The code will be released upon publication.
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