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Co-speech gesture generation requires both semantic expressivity and biomechanically plausible rhythmic motion. Existing holistic gesture models mix lexically grounded semantic gestures with frequent prosody-aligned beat gestures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ferdinand Paar , Lanmiao Liu , Aslı Özyürek , Serge Thill , Esam Ghaleb

The automated synthesis of high-quality 3D gestures from speech is of significant value in virtual humans and gaming. Previous methods focus on synthesizing gestures that are synchronized with speech rhythm, yet they frequently overlook the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qingrong Cheng , Xu Li , Xinghui Fu , Fei Xia , Zhongqian Sun

Gestures play a key role in human communication. Recent methods for co-speech gesture generation, while managing to generate beat-aligned motions, struggle generating gestures that are semantically aligned with the utterance. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Muhammad Hamza Mughal , Rishabh Dabral , Ikhsanul Habibie , Lucia Donatelli , Marc Habermann , Christian Theobalt

Generating full-body human gestures based on speech signals remains challenges on quality and speed. Existing approaches model different body regions such as body, legs and hands separately, which fail to capture the spatial interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Pinxin Liu , Luchuan Song , Junhua Huang , Haiyang Liu , Chenliang Xu

Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient embodied human communication. The automatic generation of such co-speech gestures is a long-standing problem in computer animation and is considered an enabling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Simbarashe Nyatsanga , Taras Kucherenko , Chaitanya Ahuja , Gustav Eje Henter , Michael Neff

Co-speech gesture generation aims to synthesize realistic body movements that are semantically coherent with speech and faithful to a user-specified gestural style. Existing VQ-VAE based co-speech gesture generation methods improve…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junchuan Zhao , Qifan Liang , Ye Wang

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

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

In this work, we present LLM Gesticulator, an LLM-based audio-driven co-speech gesture generation framework that synthesizes full-body animations that are rhythmically aligned with the input audio while exhibiting natural movements and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Haozhou Pang , Tianwei Ding , Lanshan He , Ming Tao , Lu Zhang , Qi Gan

Animating virtual avatars to make co-speech gestures facilitates various applications in human-machine interaction. The existing methods mainly rely on generative adversarial networks (GANs), which typically suffer from notorious mode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Lingting Zhu , Xian Liu , Xuanyu Liu , Rui Qian , Ziwei Liu , Lequan Yu

Co-speech gesture is crucial for human-machine interaction and digital entertainment. While previous works mostly map speech audio to human skeletons (e.g., 2D keypoints), directly generating speakers' gestures in the image domain remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yuanqi Du , Wayne Wu , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu

This paper presents a novel framework for speech-driven gesture production, applicable to virtual agents to enhance human-computer interaction. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods for speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Taras Kucherenko , Dai Hasegawa , Naoshi Kaneko , Gustav Eje Henter , Hedvig Kjellström

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

Gesture-driven music generation is an emerging human-computer interaction paradigm for touch-free and expressive musical interaction. However, many existing approaches treat the task as isolated gesture classification or map gestures to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Rathinaraja Jeyaraj , Barathi Subramanian , Kapilya Gangadharan , Anand Paul

Generating realistic human motions that naturally respond to both spoken language and physical objects is crucial for interactive digital experiences. Current methods, however, address speech-driven gestures or object interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sreehari Rajan , Kunal Bhosikar , Charu Sharma

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

This paper focuses on enhancing human-agent communication by integrating spatial context into virtual agents' non-verbal behaviors, specifically gestures. Recent advances in co-speech gesture generation have primarily utilized data-driven…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Anna Deichler , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

Co-speech gesturing is an important modality in conversation, providing context and social cues. In character animation, appropriate and synchronised gestures add realism, and can make interactive agents more engaging. Historically, methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jonathan Windle , Iain Matthews , Sarah Taylor

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