cs.CVJun 17, 2026

XmoPipe: A Pipeline for Large-Scale In-the-Wild Human Motion Dataset Construction

Authors: Nathan SalazarEmmanuel DellandréaMathieu LefortAlexandre Meyer

Organizations: Ecole Centrale de Lyon, CNRS, INSA Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LIRIS, UMR5205, 69130 Ecully, France · Univ Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA - UMR 6074; F-35000 Rennes, France · Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INSA Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, 69622 Villeurbanne, France

Abstract

Large-scale human motion datasets are essential for training robust motion models for analysis, synthesis, and understanding. While marker-based motion capture provides precise data, it is costly and limited in scale and diversity. Recent advances in monocular motion capture and video-language understanding open the way to extract plausible motion from unconstrained online videos. We present a scalable pipeline for constructing in-the-wild human motion datasets. From a few keywords, the system retrieves videos, extracts 3D body and facial motion, and generates high-level textual descriptions. The pipeline is flexible, enabling targeted collection of various motions, multi-person interactions, or expressive behaviors. We demonstrate its quality by training motion reconstruction and motion generation models, showing performance comparable to models trained on traditional motion capture datasets and strong cross-dataset generalization.

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