---
license: apache-2.0
library_name: motius
base_model: H-Liu1997/emage_audio
tags:
  - motion-generation
  - speech-to-gesture
  - smpl-x
  - beat2
---

# EMAGE Model Card

EMAGE is the CVPR 2024 work *Towards Unified Holistic Co-Speech Gesture
Generation via Expressive Masked Audio Gesture Modeling*. It generates a
holistic SMPL-X sequence—face, body, hands, and global translation—from speech
audio. Motius wraps the official PantoMatrix audio checkpoint and its five
released compositional decoders.

- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00374
- Project: https://pantomatrix.github.io/EMAGE/
- Official source: https://github.com/PantoMatrix/PantoMatrix
- Official checkpoint: https://huggingface.co/H-Liu1997/emage_audio
- Motius release: https://huggingface.co/ZeyuLing/Motius-EMAGE-BEAT2
- Pipeline: `motius.pipelines.emage.EMAGEPipeline`

## Release Snapshot

| Item | Value |
| ---- | ----- |
| Task | Speech-to-Gesture |
| Dataset | BEAT2 English speaker 2 |
| Input | 16 kHz mono waveform |
| Native motion | SMPL-X 55-joint axis-angle pose + expression + translation |
| Motion rate | 30 FPS |
| Window | 64 frames with four autoregressive seed frames |
| Checkpoint | [`ZeyuLing/Motius-EMAGE-BEAT2`](https://huggingface.co/ZeyuLing/Motius-EMAGE-BEAT2) |
| Upstream revision | `H-Liu1997/emage_audio@b04466b83bdebd656844a2c416797d3131e34ede` |
| Runtime revision | `PantoMatrix/PantoMatrix@c7356f35f8e39e469e510ccd1bf37e44adf8ec0e` |
| License | Apache-2.0 |

## Setup

The released PyTorch `.bin` files require the compatible Transformers loader
used by the official model:

```bash
bash tools/setup_emage_env.sh
```

The PantoMatrix inference runtime is optional and remains attributable to its
official source:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/PantoMatrix/PantoMatrix ref_repo/PantoMatrix
git -C ref_repo/PantoMatrix checkout c7356f35f8e39e469e510ccd1bf37e44adf8ec0e
export MOTIUS_EMAGE_ROOT="$PWD/ref_repo/PantoMatrix"
```

## Usage

```python
from motius.pipelines.emage import EMAGEPipeline

pipeline = EMAGEPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "ZeyuLing/Motius-EMAGE-BEAT2",
    bundle_kwargs={
        "runtime_root": "ref_repo/PantoMatrix",
        "device": "cuda",
    },
)
motion = pipeline.infer_s2g(["speech.wav"])[0]
pipeline.save_npz(
    motion,
    "outputs/inference/emage/speech_to_gesture/speech.npz",
)
```

The output NPZ retains all 55 SMPL-X joints, 100 expression coefficients,
global translation, neutral betas, and the 30 FPS rate. Motius replaces one
upstream CUDA-only tensor allocation with a device-preserving equivalent; the
network, checkpoint, chunking, autoregressive seed, and decoder semantics are
unchanged.

## Evaluation Results

Motius uses the same fixed 15-clip BEAT2 English speaker-2 population and
official feature/onset backends as the Language of Motion row. Predictions are
trimmed to the paired reference frame count only after the official 64-frame
autoregressive inference path.

| Evaluator | Clips | FGD ↓ | BC ↑ | Diversity | uTMR FID ↓ | uTMR Paired Dist. ↓ |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| BEAT2 Official | 15 | 6.199 | 7.564 | 12.476 | 0.0523 | 17.1924 |

The released audio checkpoint measures `FGD = 6.199`, `BC = 7.564`, and
`Diversity = 12.476` on the paper display scale. The paper reports
`5.512 / 7.724 / 13.06`; the relative differences are
`+12.46% / -2.07% / -4.47%` respectively. This is official-checkpoint
verification, not an exact paper reproduction: the maintained public
checkpoint is audio-only, while the paper model also consumed text.
The uTMR columns use only canonical 30 FPS SMPL-22 joint positions; metric FK
sets SMPL-X translation to zero. FID is L2-normalized, while paired distance
uses native uTMR embeddings.

## Preview

Open the audio-synchronized [15-case Three.js comparison](https://zeyuling-speech-to-gesture-beat2-leaderboard.static.hf.space/cases/index.html).
It compares BEAT2 GT, Language of Motion, EMAGE, and DiffuseStyleGesture+ with
shared camera and timeline controls and native NPZ downloads.

## Citation

```bibtex
@inproceedings{liu2024emage,
  title={EMAGE: Towards Unified Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation via Expressive Masked Audio Gesture Modeling},
  author={Liu, Haiyang and Zhu, Zihao and Becherini, Giorgio and Peng, Yichen and Su, Mingyang and Zhou, You and Zhe, Xuefei and Iwamoto, Naoya and Zheng, Bo and Black, Michael J.},
  booktitle={CVPR},
  year={2024}
}
```