My research focuses on human-motion-related topics, including Generative Motion Models, Lifelong Digital Humans Modeling, and Advanced Character Animation. Below you can find my publications and research contributions. Full list can be found on Google Scholar.

I also serve as a reviewer for conferences and journals including: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, ICCV, CVPR, ICLR, AAAI; TOG, TVCG, CGF, T-PAMI, TIP, and others.

Pre-print

MotionPersona: Characteristics-aware Locomotion Control

Mingyi Shi, Wei Liu, Jidong Mei, Wangpok Tse, Rui Chen, Xuelin Chen, Taku Komura

[webpage] [paper] [Unity Demo]

arXiv 2025

🎧 MOSPA: Spatial Audio-Driven Human Motion Generation

Shuyang Xu, Zhiyang Dou*#, Mingyi Shi, Liang Pan, Leo Ho, Jingbo Wang, Yuan Liu, Cheng Lin, Yuexin Ma, Wenping Wang#, Taku Komura#

[webpage] [paper] [video] [code]

arXiv 2025

It Takes Two: Real-time Co-Speech Two-person's Interaction Generation via Reactive Auto-regressive Diffusion Model

Mingyi Shi*, Dafei Qin*, Leo Ho, Zhouyingcheng Liao, Yinghao Huang, Junichi Yamagishi, Taku Komura
*Joint first author

[arXiv]

arXiv 2024

Publication

InterAct: A Large-Scale Dataset of Dynamic, Expressive and Interactive Activities between Two People in Daily Scenarios

Leo Ho*, Yinghao Huang*, Dafei Qin, Mingyi Shi, Wangpok Tse, Wei Liu, Junichi Yamagishi, Taku Komura
* Joint first author

[webpage] [paper] [video] [dataset]

SCA 2025

Taming Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Character Control

Rui Chen*, Mingyi Shi*, Shaoli Huang, Ping Tan, Taku Komura, Xuelin Chen
* Joint first author

[webpage] [paper] [code]

SIGGRAPH 2024, Featured in Technical Papers Video Trailer!

PhaseMP: Robust 3D Pose Estimation via Phase-conditioned Human Motion Prior

Mingyi Shi, Sebastian Starke, Yuting Ye, Taku Komura, Jungdam Won

[webpage] [paper] [code]

ICCV 2023

Normalized Human Pose Features for Human Action Video Alignment

Jingyuan Liu, Mingyi Shi, Qifeng Chen, Hongbo Fu, Chiew-Lan Tai

[paper] [supp]

ICCV 2021, oral

MotioNet: 3D Human Motion Reconstruction from Monocular Video with Skeleton Consistency

Mingyi Shi, Kfir Aberman, Andreas Aristidou, Taku Komura, Dani Lischinski, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen

[webpage] [paper] [video] [code]

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

Deep Video-Based Performance Cloning

Kfir Aberman, Mingyi Shi, Jing Liao, Dani Lischinski, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Cohen-Or

[paper] [video]

Eurographics 2019

Neural Best-Buddies: Sparse Cross-Domain Correspondence

Kfir Aberman, Jing Liao, Mingyi Shi, Dani Lischinski, Baoquan Chen, Daniel Cohen-Or

[webpage] [paper] [video] [code]

SIGGRAPH 2018

Group optimization for multi-attribute visual embedding

Qiong Zeng, Wenzheng Chen, Zhuo Han, Mingyi Shi, Yanir Kleiman, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baoquan Chen, Yangyan Li

[paper]

Visual Informatics 2018