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Speech-driven gesture generation aims at synthesizing a gesture sequence synchronized with the input speech signal. Previous methods leverage neural networks to directly map a compact audio representation to the gesture sequence, ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Fengqi Liu , Hexiang Wang , Jingyu Gong , Ran Yi , Qianyu Zhou , Xuequan Lu , Jiangbo Lu , Lizhuang Ma

Human infants learn language while interacting with their environment in which their caregivers may describe the objects and actions they perform. Similar to human infants, artificial agents can learn language while interacting with their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ozan Özdemir , Matthias Kerzel , Cornelius Weber , Jae Hee Lee , Stefan Wermter

In this paper, we propose a multi-speaker face-to-speech waveform generation model that also works for unseen speaker conditions. Using a generative adversarial network (GAN) with linguistic and speaker characteristic features as auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Se-Yun Um , Jihyun Kim , Jihyun Lee , Hong-Goo Kang

Talking head video generation aims to generate a realistic talking head video that preserves the person's identity from a source image and the motion from a driving video. Despite the promising progress made in the field, it remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Shuling Zhao , Fa-Ting Hong , Xiaoshui Huang , Dan Xu

Medical vision-and-language pre-training provides a feasible solution to extract effective vision-and-language representations from medical images and texts. However, few studies have been dedicated to this field to facilitate medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Zhihong Chen , Yuhao Du , Jinpeng Hu , Yang Liu , Guanbin Li , Xiang Wan , Tsung-Hui Chang

We present Perceive-Represent-Generate (PRG), a novel three-stage framework that maps perceptual information of different modalities (e.g., visual or sound), corresponding to a sequence of instructions, to an adequate sequence of movements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Fábio Vital , Miguel Vasco , Alberto Sardinha , Francisco Melo

In this paper, we propose a novel text-based talking-head video generation framework that synthesizes high-fidelity facial expressions and head motions in accordance with contextual sentiments as well as speech rhythm and pauses. To be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lincheng Li , Suzhen Wang , Zhimeng Zhang , Yu Ding , Yixing Zheng , Xin Yu , Changjie Fan

A quintessential feature of human intelligence is the ability to create ad hoc conventions over time to achieve shared goals efficiently. We investigate how communication strategies evolve through repeated collaboration as people coordinate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kiyosu Maeda , William P. McCarthy , Ching-Yi Tsai , Jeffrey Mu , Haoliang Wang , Robert D. Hawkins , Judith E. Fan , Parastoo Abtahi

In this paper, we extended the method proposed in [21] to enable humans to interact naturally with autonomous agents through vocal and textual conversations. Our extended method exploits the inherent capabilities of pre-trained large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Linus Nwankwo , Elmar Rueckert

Recent advancements in the field of Diffusion Transformers have substantially improved the generation of high-quality 2D images, 3D videos, and 3D shapes. However, the effectiveness of the Transformer architecture in the domain of co-speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Xiaofeng Mao , Zhengkai Jiang , Qilin Wang , Chencan Fu , Jiangning Zhang , Jiafu Wu , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Wei Li , Mingmin Chi

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), digital humans have attracted more and more attention and are expected to achieve a wide range of applications in several industries. Then, most of the existing digital humans…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yingjie Zhou , Yaodong Chen , Kaiyue Bi , Lian Xiong , Hui Liu

Socially competent robots should be equipped with the ability to perceive the world that surrounds them and communicate about it in a human-like manner. Representative skills that exhibit such ability include generating image descriptions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Ting Han , Sina Zarrieß

Responsing with image has been recognized as an important capability for an intelligent conversational agent. Yet existing works only focus on exploring the multimodal dialogue models which depend on retrieval-based methods, but neglecting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Qingfeng Sun , Yujing Wang , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang , Huang Hu , Fei Xu , Jessica Zhang , Xiubo Geng , Daxin Jiang

As augmented reality technology and hardware become more mature and affordable, researchers have been exploring more intuitive and discoverable interaction techniques for immersive environments. In this paper, we investigate multimodal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Xiaoyan Zhou , Adam S. Williams , Francisco R. Ortega

Gestures are pivotal in enhancing co-speech communication. While recent works have mostly focused on point-level motion transformation or fully supervised motion representations through data-driven approaches, we explore the representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Huan Yang , Jiahui Chen , Chaofan Ding , Runhua Shi , Siyu Xiong , Qingqi Hong , Xiaoqi Mo , Xinhan Di

In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Combo, for harmonious co-speech holistic 3D human motion generation and efficient customizable adaption. In particular, we identify that one fundamental challenge as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Chao Xu , Mingze Sun , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Fei Wang , Yang Liu , Baigui Sun , Ruqi Huang , Alexander Hauptmann

Recently, interactive digital human video generation has attracted widespread attention and achieved remarkable progress. However, building such a practical system that can interact with diverse input signals in real time remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ming Chen , Liyuan Cui , Wenyuan Zhang , Haoxian Zhang , Yan Zhou , Xiaohan Li , Songlin Tang , Jiwen Liu , Borui Liao , Hejia Chen , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan

This paper addresses the problem of diversity-aware sign language production, where we want to give an image (or sequence) of a signer and produce another image with the same pose but different attributes (\textit{e.g.} gender, skin color).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

This work focuses on generating realistic, physically-based human behaviors from multi-modal inputs, which may only partially specify the desired motion. For example, the input may come from a VR controller providing arm motion and body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aayam Shrestha , Pan Liu , German Ros , Kai Yuan , Alan Fern

Due to the complex nature of human emotions and the diversity of emotion representation methods in humans, emotion recognition is a challenging field. In this research, three input modalities, namely text, audio (speech), and video, are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Minoo Shayaninasab , Bagher Babaali