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Most audio-visual speaker extraction methods rely on synchronized lip recording to isolate the speech of a target speaker from a multi-talker mixture. However, in natural human communication, co-speech gestures are also temporally aligned…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Zexu Pan , Xinyuan Qian , Shengkui Zhao , Kun Zhou , Bin Ma

People may perform diverse gestures affected by various mental and physical factors when speaking the same sentences. This inherent one-to-many relationship makes co-speech gesture generation from audio particularly challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jing Li , Di Kang , Wenjie Pei , Xuefei Zhe , Ying Zhang , Linchao Bao , Zhenyu He

Co-speech gestures, if presented in the lively form of videos, can achieve superior visual effects in human-machine interaction. While previous works mostly generate structural human skeletons, resulting in the omission of appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xu He , Qiaochu Huang , Zhensong Zhang , Zhiwei Lin , Zhiyong Wu , Sicheng Yang , Minglei Li , Zhiyi Chen , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu

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

This paper addresses the problem of generating lifelike holistic co-speech motions for 3D avatars, focusing on two key aspects: variability and coordination. Variability allows the avatar to exhibit a wide range of motions even with similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yifei Liu , Qiong Cao , Yandong Wen , Huaiguang Jiang , Changxing Ding

Co-speech gestures are crucial non-verbal cues that enhance speech clarity and expressiveness in human communication, which have attracted increasing attention in multimodal research. While the existing methods have made strides in gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hongye Cheng , Tianyu Wang , Guangsi Shi , Zexing Zhao , Yanwei Fu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuanmeng Sha , Liyun Zhang , Tomohiro Mashita , Naoya Chiba , Yuki Uranishi

We address the problem of generating diverse 3D human motions from textual descriptions. This challenging task requires joint modeling of both modalities: understanding and extracting useful human-centric information from the text, and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Mathis Petrovich , Michael J. Black , Gül Varol

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

Gestures are inherent to human interaction and often complement speech in face-to-face communication, forming a multimodal communication system. An important task in gesture analysis is detecting a gesture's beginning and end. Research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Esam Ghaleb , Ilya Burenko , Marlou Rasenberg , Wim Pouw , Ivan Toni , Peter Uhrig , Anna Wilson , Judith Holler , Aslı Özyürek , Raquel Fernández

Recent AIGC systems possess the capability to generate digital multimedia content based on human language instructions, such as text, image and video. However, when it comes to speech, existing methods related to human instruction-to-speech…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Yixuan Zhou , Xiaoyu Qin , Zeyu Jin , Shuoyi Zhou , Shun Lei , Songtao Zhou , Zhiyong Wu , Jia Jia

Co-speech gesture video generation aims to synthesize realistic, audio-aligned videos of speakers, complete with synchronized facial expressions and body gestures. This task presents challenges due to the significant one-to-many mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xu Yang , Shaoli Huang , Shenbo Xie , Xuelin Chen , Yifei Liu , Changxing Ding

Audio-driven cospeech video generation typically involves two stages: speech-to-gesture and gesture-to-video. While significant advances have been made in speech-to-gesture generation, synthesizing natural expressions and gestures remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Renda Li , Xiaohua Qi , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei HanJing Xiao

Visual gaze estimation, with its wide-ranging application scenarios, has garnered increasing attention within the research community. Although existing approaches infer gaze solely from image signals, recent advances in visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jun Wang , Hao Ruan , Liangjian Wen , Yong Dai , Mingjie Wang

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

The automatic generation of stylized co-speech gestures has recently received increasing attention. Previous systems typically allow style control via predefined text labels or example motion clips, which are often not flexible enough to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Tenglong Ao , Zeyi Zhang , Libin Liu

The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. Previous works designed network structures on individual datasets, which resulted in a lack of data volume and generalizability across different motion…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sicheng Yang , Zilin Wang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Qiaochu Huang , Lei Hao , Songcen Xu , Xiaofei Wu , changpeng yang , Zonghong Dai

Generative models have shown significant achievements in audio generation tasks. However, existing models struggle with complex and detailed prompts, leading to potential performance degradation. We hypothesize that this problem stems from…

Achieving nuanced and accurate emulation of human voice has been a longstanding goal in artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in recent years, the mainstream of speech synthesis models still relies on…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Weiwei Lin , Chenhang He , Man-Wai Mak , Jiachen Lian , Kong Aik Lee