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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

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

Human speech is often accompanied by body gestures including arm and hand gestures. We present a method that reenacts a high-quality video with gestures matching a target speech audio. The key idea of our method is to split and re-assemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yang Zhou , Jimei Yang , Dingzeyu Li , Jun Saito , Deepali Aneja , Evangelos Kalogerakis

The Audio-to-3D-Gesture (A2G) task has enormous potential for various applications in virtual reality and computer graphics, etc. However, current evaluation metrics, such as Fr\'echet Gesture Distance or Beat Constancy, fail at reflecting…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhilin Gao , Yunhao Li , Sijing Wu , Yuqin Cao , Huiyu Duan , Guangtao Zhai

Existing methods for synthesizing 3D human gestures from speech have shown promising results, but they do not explicitly model the impact of emotions on the generated gestures. Instead, these methods directly output animations from speech…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Kiran Chhatre , Radek Daněček , Nikos Athanasiou , Giorgio Becherini , Christopher Peters , Michael J. Black , Timo Bolkart

Speech-driven gesture generation is highly challenging due to the random jitters of human motion. In addition, there is an inherent asynchronous relationship between human speech and gestures. To tackle these challenges, we introduce a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Sicheng Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Lei Hao , Weihong Bao , Haolin Zhuang

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

Diffusion models have experienced a surge of interest as highly expressive yet efficiently trainable probabilistic models. We show that these models are an excellent fit for synthesising human motion that co-occurs with audio, e.g., dancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Simon Alexanderson , Rajmund Nagy , Jonas Beskow , Gustav Eje Henter

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

We present a generative adversarial network to synthesize 3D pose sequences of co-speech upper-body gestures with appropriate affective expressions. Our network consists of two components: a generator to synthesize gestures from a joint…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Uttaran Bhattacharya , Elizabeth Childs , Nicholas Rewkowski , Dinesh Manocha

When humans speak, gestures help convey communicative intentions, such as adding emphasis or describing concepts. However, current co-speech gesture generation methods rely solely on superficial linguistic cues (e.g. speech audio or text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Pinxin Liu , Haiyang Liu , Luchuan Song , Jason J. Corso , Chenliang Xu

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

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

Creating a diverse and comprehensive dataset of hand gestures for dynamic human-machine interfaces in the automotive domain can be challenging and time-consuming. To overcome this challenge, we propose using synthetic gesture datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Amr Gomaa , Robin Zitt , Guillermo Reyes , Antonio Krüger

The art of communication beyond speech there are gestures. The automatic co-speech gesture generation draws much attention in computer animation. It is a challenging task due to the diversity of gestures and the difficulty of matching the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sicheng Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Minglei Li , Zhensong Zhang , Lei Hao , Weihong Bao , Ming Cheng , Long Xiao

This work focuses on full-body co-speech gesture generation. Existing methods typically employ an autoregressive model accompanied by vector-quantized tokens for gesture generation, which results in information loss and compromises the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Binjie Liu , Lina Liu , Sanyi Zhang , Songen Gu , Yihao Zhi , Tianyi Zhu , Lei Yang , Long Ye

Lightweight, controllable, and physically plausible human motion synthesis is crucial for animation, virtual reality, robotics, and human-computer interaction applications. Existing methods often compromise between computational efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Arvin Tashakori , Arash Tashakori , Gongbo Yang , Z. Jane Wang , Peyman Servati

This paper presents a novel framework for automatic speech-driven gesture generation, applicable to human-agent interaction including both virtual agents and robots. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Taras Kucherenko , Dai Hasegawa , Gustav Eje Henter , Naoshi Kaneko , Hedvig Kjellström

Co-speech gesture video synthesis is a challenging task that requires both probabilistic modeling of human gestures and the synthesis of realistic images that align with the rhythmic nuances of speech. To address these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yasheng Sun , Zhiliang Xu , Hang Zhou , Jiazhi Guan , Quanwei Yang , Kaisiyuan Wang , Borong Liang , Yingying Li , Haocheng Feng , Jingdong Wang , Ziwei Liu , Koike Hideki

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