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Natural co-speech gestures are essential components to improve the experience of Human-robot interaction (HRI). However, current gesture generation approaches have many limitations of not being natural, not aligning with the speech and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shiyi Tang , Christian Dondrup

Gesture recognition is mainly apprehensive on analyzing the functionality of human wits. The main goal of gesture recognition is to create a system which can recognize specific human gestures and use them to convey information or for device…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-12-02 Harshith C , Karthik R. Shastry , Manoj Ravindran , M. V. V. N. S. Srikanth , Naveen Lakshmikhanth

Various state-of-the-art self-supervised visual representation learning approaches take advantage of data from multiple sensors by aligning the feature representations across views and/or modalities. In this work, we investigate how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Thomas M. Hehn , Julian F. P. Kooij , Dariu M. Gavrila

In this study, we introduce a novel cross-modal retrieval task involving speaker descriptions and their corresponding audio samples. Utilizing pre-trained speaker and text encoders, we present a simple learning framework based on…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xuechen Liu , Xin Wang , Erica Cooper , Xiaoxiao Miao , Junichi Yamagishi

Self-supervised, multi-modal learning has been successful in holistic representation of complex scenarios. This can be useful to consolidate information from multiple modalities which have multiple, versatile uses. Its application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Aniruddha Tamhane , Jie Ying Wu , Mathias Unberath

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

Contrastively trained vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in vision and language representation learning, leading to state-of-the-art models for various downstream multimodal tasks. However, recent research has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Harman Singh , Pengchuan Zhang , Qifan Wang , Mengjiao Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Jingfei Du , Yu Chen

Multimodal emotion recognition aims to recognize emotions for each utterance of multiple modalities, which has received increasing attention for its application in human-machine interaction. Current graph-based methods fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Dongyuan Li , Yusong Wang , Kotaro Funakoshi , Manabu Okumura

Creating a virtual avatar with semantically coherent gestures that are aligned with speech is a challenging task. Existing gesture generation research mainly focused on generating rhythmic beat gestures, neglecting the semantic context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Lanmiao Liu , Esam Ghaleb , Aslı Özyürek , Zerrin Yumak

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

We propose a novel learned deep prior of body motion for 3D hand shape synthesis and estimation in the domain of conversational gestures. Our model builds upon the insight that body motion and hand gestures are strongly correlated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Evonne Ng , Shiry Ginosar , Trevor Darrell , Hanbyul Joo

Learning to understand grounded language, which connects natural language to percepts, is a critical research area. Prior work in grounded language acquisition has focused primarily on textual inputs. In this work we demonstrate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe , Luke E. Richards , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , Cynthia Matuszek

Contrastive, self-supervised learning of object representations recently emerged as an attractive alternative to reconstruction-based training. Prior approaches focus on contrasting individual object representations (slots) against one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Sindy Löwe , Klaus Greff , Rico Jonschkowski , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Kipf

Conversational speech synthesis (CSS) incorporates historical dialogue as supplementary information with the aim of generating speech that has dialogue-appropriate prosody. While previous methods have already delved into enhancing context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yayue Deng , Jinlong Xue , Yukang Jia , Qifei Li , Yichen Han , Fengping Wang , Yingming Gao , Dengfeng Ke , Ya Li

Neural dialogue response generation has gained much popularity in recent years. Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) objective is widely adopted in existing dialogue model learning. However, models trained with MLE objective function are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Hengyi Cai , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Zhuoye Ding , Yongjun Bao , Weipeng Yan , Xiaofang Zhao

Contrastive learning has been used to learn a high-quality representation of the image in computer vision. However, contrastive learning is not widely utilized in natural language processing due to the lack of a general method of data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Peng Su , Yifan Peng , K. Vijay-Shanker

Tremendous progress has been made in visual representation learning, notably with the recent success of self-supervised contrastive learning methods. Supervised contrastive learning has also been shown to outperform its cross-entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ashraful Islam , Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Leonid Karlinsky , Richard Radke , Rogerio Feris

Creating artificial social intelligence - algorithms that can understand the nuances of multi-person interactions - is an exciting and emerging challenge in processing facial expressions and gestures from multimodal videos. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Alex Wilf , Martin Q. Ma , Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

Multimodal models, such as the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) model, have demonstrated remarkable success in aligning visual and linguistic representations. However, these models exhibit limitations when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hiroshi Sasaki

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning show that such algorithms learn visual representations that can be transferred better to unseen tasks than joint-training methods relying on task-specific supervision. In this paper, we found…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hyuntak Cha , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin