Practical overview
When it fits
Use it for research experiments or a reference workflow when you have Human3.6M data in the required format and want to train, evaluate or visualize motion predictions locally.
Who it is for
- Researchers studying human-motion forecasting with recurrent neural networks.
- Developers who want to compare model predictions against running-average baselines.
- Practitioners exploring action-specific prediction and motion-sample visualization.
Documented uses
- Train a motion-forecasting model for a selected Human3.6M action or across all listed actions.
- Compare recurrent-network experiments with a running-average baseline.
- Review action-level Euler-angle error logs in TensorBoard.
- Save and visualize predicted walking-motion samples.
Requirements & limits
The repository is public and specifies an MIT license.
- The code requires TensorFlow 1.2 or later; h5py is listed for saving samples.
- The required Human3.6M data format is exponential map.
- Training and evaluation are command-line workflows; the README documents TensorBoard logging for action-level Euler-angle error.
- The repository lists 15 action labels, including walking, sitting and greeting, and supports an all-actions setting.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Train and visualize walking-motion samples
Train the walking-action model, save prediction samples and open the resulting visualization.
Before you start
- The repository cloned locally.
- Human3.6M data in exponential-map format, placed in the repository's data directory.
- TensorFlow 1.2 or later and h5py.
Steps
Run the command below to train.
python src/translate.py --action walking --seq_length_out 25 --iterations 10000Run the command below to save samples.
python src/translate.py --action walking --seq_length_out 25 --iterations 10000 --sample --load 10000Run the command below to visualize the samples.
python src/forward_kinematics.py
Expected outcome
A visualization of predicted walking motion based on saved model samples.
Guide limitations
- The README describes this as a quick demo and does not promise a particular result on other hardware.
- The data must be in the specified Human3.6M exponential-map format.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 17 October 2026
- Original website title
- una-dinosauria/human-motion-prediction · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

