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In this paper, a deep learning-based model for 3D human motion generation from the text is proposed via gesture action classification and an autoregressive model. The model focuses on generating special gestures that express human thinking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Gwantae Kim , Youngsuk Ryu , Junyeop Lee , David K. Han , Jeongmin Bae , Hanseok Ko

Embodied conversational agents benefit from being able to accompany their speech with gestures. Although many data-driven approaches to gesture generation have been proposed in recent years, it is still unclear whether such systems can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Taras Kucherenko , Rajmund Nagy , Michael Neff , Hedvig Kjellström , Gustav Eje Henter

Learning structured task representations from human demonstrations is essential for understanding long-horizon manipulation behaviors, particularly in bimanual settings where action ordering, object involvement, and interaction geometry can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Franziska Herbert , Vignesh Prasad , Han Liu , Dorothea Koert , Georgia Chalvatzaki

Speech encodes a wealth of information related to human behavior and has been used in a variety of automated behavior recognition tasks. However, extracting behavioral information from speech remains challenging including due to inadequate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Haoqi Li , Brian Baucom , Shrikanth Narayanan , Panayiotis Georgiou

Synthesizing realistic co-speech gestures is an important and yet unsolved problem for creating believable motions that can drive a humanoid robot to interact and communicate with human users. Such capability will improve the impressions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Shuhong Lu , Youngwoo Yoon , Andrew Feng

We propose a real-time system for synthesizing gestures directly from speech. Our data-driven approach is based on Generative Adversarial Neural Networks to model the speech-gesture relationship. We utilize the large amount of speaker video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Manuel Rebol , Christian Gütl , Krzysztof Pietroszek

Communicative gestures and speech acoustic are tightly linked. Our objective is to predict the timing of gestures according to the acoustic. That is, we want to predict when a certain gesture occurs. We develop a model based on a recurrent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Fajrian Yunus , Chloé Clavel , Catherine Pelachaud

While recent research has made significant progress in speech-driven talking face generation, the quality of the generated video still lags behind that of real recordings. One reason for this is the use of handcrafted intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chenpeng Du , Qi Chen , Tianyu He , Xu Tan , Xie Chen , Kai Yu , Sheng Zhao , Jiang Bian

Due to their significance in human communication, the automatic generation of co-speech gestures in artificial embodied agents has received a lot of attention. Although modern deep learning approaches can generate realistic-looking…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Hendric Voß , Stefan Kopp

Gesture behavior is a natural part of human conversation. Much work has focused on removing the need for tedious hand-animation to create embodied conversational agents by designing speech-driven gesture generators. However, these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Ylva Ferstl , Michael Neff , Rachel McDonnell

The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. Previous works designed network structures on individual datasets, which resulted in a lack of data volume and generalizability across different motion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sicheng Yang , Zilin Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Qiaochu Huang , Lei Hao , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , changpeng yang , Zonghong Dai

The popular frameworks for self-supervised learning of speech representations have largely focused on frame-level masked prediction of speech regions. While this has shown promising downstream task performance for speech recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Varun Krishna , Sriram Ganapathy

Body language such as conversational gesture is a powerful way to ease communication. Conversational gestures do not only make a speech more lively but also contain semantic meaning that helps to stress important information in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hitoshi Teshima , Naoki Wake , Diego Thomas , Yuta Nakashima , Hiroshi Kawasaki , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Co-speech gestures, if presented in the lively form of videos, can achieve superior visual effects in human-machine interaction. While previous works mostly generate structural human skeletons, resulting in the omission of appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xu He , Qiaochu Huang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Sicheng Yang , Minglei Li , Zhiyi Chen , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu

We propose a semantically-aware speech driven model to generate expressive and natural upper-facial and head motion for Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA). In this work, we aim to produce natural and continuous head motion and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Mireille Fares , Catherine Pelachaud , Nicolas Obin

Deep generative models have been used in recent years to learn coherent latent representations in order to synthesize high-quality images. In this work, we propose a neural network to learn a generative model for sampling consistent indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Pulak Purkait , Christopher Zach , Ian Reid

Co-speech gestures play a crucial role in the interactions between humans and embodied conversational agents (ECA). Recent deep learning methods enable the generation of realistic, natural co-speech gestures synchronized with speech, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Teo Guichoux , Laure Soulier , Nicolas Obin , Catherine Pelachaud

Research in linguistics shows that non-verbal cues, such as gestures, play a crucial role in spoken discourse. For example, speakers perform hand gestures to indicate topic shifts, helping listeners identify transitions in discourse. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Varsha Suresh , M. Hamza Mughal , Christian Theobalt , Vera Demberg

This study aims to improve the generation of 3D gestures by utilizing multimodal information from human speech. Previous studies have focused on incorporating additional modalities to enhance the quality of generated gestures. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zunnan Xu , Yachao Zhang , Sicheng Yang , Ronghui Li , Xiu Li

Co-speech gesture generation is to synthesize a gesture sequence that not only looks real but also matches with the input speech audio. Our method generates the movements of a complete upper body, including arms, hands, and the head.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shenhan Qian , Zhi Tu , Yihao Zhi , Wen Liu , Shenghua Gao