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Diffusion models have shown great success in generating high-quality co-speech gestures for interactive humanoid robots or digital avatars from noisy input with the speech audio or text as conditions. However, they rarely focus on providing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zeyu Zhao , Nan Gao , Zhi Zeng , Guixuan Zhang , Jie Liu , Shuwu Zhang

Synthesizing synchronized and natural co-speech gesture videos remains a formidable challenge. Recent approaches have leveraged motion graphs to harness the potential of existing video data. To retrieve an appropriate trajectory from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yafei Song , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable synthesis quality and diversity in generating co-speech gestures. However, the computationally intensive sampling steps associated with diffusion models hinder their practicality in real-world…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang , Xuelin Chen , Jifeng Ning , Mingming Gong

For human-like agents, including virtual avatars and social robots, making proper gestures while speaking is crucial in human--agent interaction. Co-speech gestures enhance interaction experiences and make the agents look alive. However, it…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Youngwoo Yoon , Bok Cha , Joo-Haeng Lee , Minsu Jang , Jaeyeon Lee , Jaehong Kim , Geehyuk Lee

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) are often designed to produce nonverbal behavior to complement or enhance their verbal communication. One such form of nonverbal behavior is co-speech gesturing, which involves movements that the agent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Pieter Wolfert , Nicole Robinson , Tony Belpaeme

This paper reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-speech gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset to build gesture-generation systems. Motion generated by all these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Taras Kucherenko , Pieter Wolfert , Youngwoo Yoon , Carla Viegas , Teodor Nikolov , Mihail Tsakov , Gustav Eje Henter

Full-body gestures play a pivotal role in natural interactions and are crucial for achieving effective communication. Nevertheless, most existing studies primarily focus on the gesture generation of speakers, overlooking the vital role of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jinhe Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Yuming Hang , Gaoge Han , Jinewei Li , Jing Zhang , Xingjian Gu

This paper reports on the GENEA Challenge 2023, in which participating teams built speech-driven gesture-generation systems using the same speech and motion dataset, followed by a joint evaluation. This year's challenge provided data on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Taras Kucherenko , Rajmund Nagy , Youngwoo Yoon , Jieyeon Woo , Teodor Nikolov , Mihail Tsakov , Gustav Eje Henter

Generating co-speech gestures in real time requires both temporal coherence and efficient sampling. We introduce a novel framework for streaming gesture generation that extends Rolling Diffusion models with structured progressive noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Evgeniia Vu , Andrei Boiarov , Dmitry Vetrov

Recent advances in co-speech gesture and talking head generation have been impressive, yet most methods focus on only one of the two tasks. Those that attempt to generate both often rely on separate models or network modules, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

The generation of co-speech gestures for digital humans is an emerging area in the field of virtual human creation. Prior research has made progress by using acoustic and semantic information as input and adopting classify method to…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Fan Zhang , Naye Ji , Fuxing Gao , Siyuan Zhao , Zhaohan Wang , Shunman Li

Gestures are essential for enhancing co-speech communication, offering visual emphasis and complementing verbal interactions. While prior work has concentrated on point-level motion or fully supervised data-driven methods, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jiahui Chen , Yang Huan , Runhua Shi , Chanfan Ding , Xiaoqi Mo , Siyu Xiong , Yinong He

Automatic synthesis of realistic co-speech gestures is an increasingly important yet challenging task in artificial embodied agent creation. Previous systems mainly focus on generating gestures in an end-to-end manner, which leads to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Tenglong Ao , Qingzhe Gao , Yuke Lou , Baoquan Chen , Libin Liu

The body movements accompanying speech aid speakers in expressing their ideas. Co-speech motion generation is one of the important approaches for synthesizing realistic avatars. Due to the intricate correspondence between speech and motion,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Sen Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Xin Tan , Zhifeng Xie , Chengjie Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Deriving co-speech 3D gestures has seen tremendous progress in virtual avatar animation. Yet, the existing methods often produce stiff and unreasonable gestures with unseen human speech inputs due to the limited 3D speech-gesture data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xingqun Qi , Hengyuan Zhang , Yatian Wang , Jiahao Pan , Chen Liu , Peng Li , Xiaowei Chi , Mengfei Li , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Cued Speech (CS) is an advanced visual phonetic encoding system that integrates lip reading with hand codings, enabling people with hearing impairments to communicate efficiently. CS video generation aims to produce specific lip and gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Wentao Lei , Li Liu , Jun Wang

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

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for producing synchronized and realistic human gestures that accompany speech, enhancing the animation of lifelike avatars in virtual environments. While diffusion models have shown impressive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chencan Fu , Yabiao Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Zhengkai Jiang , Xiaofeng Mao , Jiafu Wu , Weijian Cao , Chengjie Wang , Yanhao Ge , Yong Liu

In this work, we build upon our previous publication and use diffusion-based generative models for speech enhancement. We present a detailed overview of the diffusion process that is based on a stochastic differential equation and delve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Julius Richter , Simon Welker , Jean-Marie Lemercier , Bunlong Lay , Timo Gerkmann

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