One question about VQ-VAE

[smandava98]

Hi,

Is it possible to just use the encoder to encode the motion and just regress the SMPLs directly without going through the decoder?

Say I just want to generate a couple seconds of motion. I think I am losing some information with the decoder I want to be able regress directly.
Please let me know if this is possible

[spzhuang]

It can‘t without decoder. Because SMPL need 3D location (or 2D keypoints from a keypoints detection net) to regress it parameters, and decoder gives motion location.