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In recent years, video semantic segmentation has made great progress with advanced deep neural networks. However, there still exist two main challenges \ie, information inconsistency and computation cost. To deal with the two difficulties,…

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We present a generative model that learns to synthesize human motion from limited training sequences. Our framework provides conditional generation and blending across multiple temporal resolutions. The model adeptly captures human motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 David Eduardo Moreno-Villamarín , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Human-robot interaction requires a common understanding of the operational environment, which can be provided by a representation that blends geometric and symbolic knowledge: a semantic map. Through a semantic map the robot can interpret…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Sara Kaszuba , Sandeep Reddy Sabbella , Vincenzo Suriani , Francesco Riccio , Daniele Nardi

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

Recent works on language-guided image manipulation have shown great power of language in providing rich semantics, especially for face images. However, the other natural information, motions, in language is less explored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Tiankai Hang , Huan Yang , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Xin Geng , Baining Guo

With the recent success of deep learning algorithms, many researchers have focused on generative models for human motion animation. However, the research community lacks a platform for training and benchmarking various algorithms, and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Yizhou Zhao , Wensi Ai , Liang Qiu , Pan Lu , Feng Shi , Tian Han , Song-Chun Zhu

Generating 3D human motions from textual descriptions is an important research problem with broad applications in video games, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Recent methods align the textual description with human motion at the…

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Retrieving videos based on semantic motion is a fundamental, yet unsolved, problem. Existing video representation approaches overly rely on static appearance and scene context rather than motion dynamics, a bias inherited from their…

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Sentence semantic matching requires an agent to determine the semantic relation between two sentences, where much recent progress has been made by the advancement of representation learning techniques and inspiration of human behaviors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Kun Zhang , Guangyi Lv , Meng Wang , Enhong Chen

Human communication is multimodal, with speech and gestures tightly coupled, yet most computational methods for generating speech and gestures synthesize them sequentially, weakening synchrony and prosody alignment. We introduce Gelina, a…

Generating holistic co-speech gestures that integrate full-body motion with facial expressions suffers from semantically incoherent coordination on body motion and spatially unstable meaningless movements due to existing part-decomposed or…

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People frequently use speech-to-text systems to compose short texts with voice. However, current voice-based interfaces struggle to support composing more detailed, contextually complex texts, especially in scenarios where users are on the…

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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…

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Semantic parsing is the problem of deriving machine interpretable meaning representations from natural language utterances. Neural models with encoder-decoder architectures have recently achieved substantial improvements over traditional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Huseyin A. Inan , Gaurav Singh Tomar , Huapu Pan

Human communication seamlessly integrates speech and bodily motion, where hand gestures naturally complement vocal prosody to express intent, emotion, and emphasis. While recent text-to-speech (TTS) systems have begun incorporating…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Lokesh Kumar , Nirmesh Shah , Ashishkumar P. Gudmalwar , Pankaj Wasnik

Co-speech gestures play a vital role in non-verbal communication. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for co-speech gesture understanding in the wild. Specifically, we propose three new tasks and benchmarks to evaluate a model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Sindhu B Hegde , K R Prajwal , Taein Kwon , Andrew Zisserman

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robot manipulation by unifying perception and action. However, existing VLA systems primarily rely on textual instructions and struggle to resolve spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wenxuan Guo , Ziyuan Li , Meng Zhang , Yichen Liu , Yimeng Dong , Chuxi Xu , Yunfei Wei , Ze Chen , Erjin Zhou , Jianjiang Feng

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

User simulators (USs) are commonly used to train task-oriented dialogue systems (DSs) via reinforcement learning. The interactions often take place on semantic level for efficiency, but there is still a gap from semantic actions to natural…

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