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The generation of realistic and contextually relevant co-speech gestures is a challenging yet increasingly important task in the creation of multimodal artificial agents. Prior methods focused on learning a direct correspondence between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hendric Voß , Stefan Kopp

Automatic synthesis of realistic co-speech gestures is an increasingly important yet challenging task in artificial embodied agent creation. Previous systems mainly focus on generating gestures in an end-to-end manner, which leads to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Tenglong Ao , Qingzhe Gao , Yuke Lou , Baoquan Chen , Libin Liu

We propose the first approach to automatically and jointly synthesize both the synchronous 3D conversational body and hand gestures, as well as 3D face and head animations, of a virtual character from speech input. Our algorithm uses a CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ikhsanul Habibie , Weipeng Xu , Dushyant Mehta , Lingjie Liu , Hans-Peter Seidel , Gerard Pons-Moll , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

Recent advances in co-speech gesture and talking head generation have been impressive, yet most methods focus on only one of the two tasks. Those that attempt to generate both often rely on separate models or network modules, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Steven Hogue , Chenxu Zhang , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo

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

Co-speech gestures convey a wide variety of meanings and play an important role in face-to-face human interactions. These gestures significantly influence the addressee's engagement, recall, comprehension, and attitudes toward the speaker.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Parisa Ghanad Torshizi , Laura B. Hensel , Ari Shapiro , Stacy C. Marsella

During speech, people spontaneously gesticulate, which plays a key role in conveying information. Similarly, realistic co-speech gestures are crucial to enable natural and smooth interactions with social agents. Current end-to-end co-speech…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Taras Kucherenko , Patrik Jonell , Sanne van Waveren , Gustav Eje Henter , Simon Alexanderson , Iolanda Leite , Hedvig Kjellström

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

Text-to-speech and co-speech gesture synthesis have until now been treated as separate areas by two different research communities, and applications merely stack the two technologies using a simple system-level pipeline. This can lead to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Siyang Wang , Simon Alexanderson , Joakim Gustafson , Jonas Beskow , Gustav Eje Henter , Éva Székely

Generating 3D-based body movements from speech shows great potential in extensive downstream applications, while it still suffers challenges in imitating realistic human movements. Predominant research efforts focus on end-to-end generation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xin Guo , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li

When virtual agents interact with humans, gestures are crucial to delivering their intentions with speech. Previous multimodal co-speech gesture generation models required encoded features of all modalities to generate gestures. If some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Gwantae Kim , Seonghyeok Noh , Insung Ham , Hanseok Ko

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

Co-speech gestures play a crucial role in the interactions between humans and embodied conversational agents (ECA). Recent deep learning methods enable the generation of realistic, natural co-speech gestures synchronized with speech, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Teo Guichoux , Laure Soulier , Nicolas Obin , Catherine Pelachaud

We propose EMAGE, a framework to generate full-body human gestures from audio and masked gestures, encompassing facial, local body, hands, and global movements. To achieve this, we first introduce BEAT2 (BEAT-SMPLX-FLAME), a new mesh-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Haiyang Liu , Zihao Zhu , Giorgio Becherini , Yichen Peng , Mingyang Su , You Zhou , Xuefei Zhe , Naoya Iwamoto , Bo Zheng , Michael J. Black

We propose DiffSHEG, a Diffusion-based approach for Speech-driven Holistic 3D Expression and Gesture generation with arbitrary length. While previous works focused on co-speech gesture or expression generation individually, the joint…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Junming Chen , Yunfei Liu , Jianan Wang , Ailing Zeng , Yu Li , Qifeng Chen

Generating speech-consistent body and gesture movements is a long-standing problem in virtual avatar creation. Previous studies often synthesize pose movement in a holistic manner, where poses of all joints are generated simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xian Liu , Qianyi Wu , Hang Zhou , Yinghao Xu , Rui Qian , Xinyi Lin , Xiaowei Zhou , Wayne Wu , Bo Dai , Bolei Zhou

We present an innovative end-to-end framework for synthesizing semantically meaningful co-speech gestures and deploying them in real-time on a humanoid robot. This system addresses the challenge of creating natural, expressive non-verbal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Gang Zhang

Along with the explosion of large language models, improvements in speech synthesis, advancements in hardware, and the evolution of computer graphics, the current bottleneck in creating digital humans lies in generating character movements…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Thanh Hoang-Minh

Gestures are non-verbal but important behaviors accompanying people's speech. While previous methods are able to generate speech rhythm-synchronized gestures, the semantic context of the speech is generally lacking in the gesticulations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yihao Zhi , Xiaodong Cun , Xuelin Chen , Xi Shen , Wen Guo , Shaoli Huang , Shenghua Gao

Animating virtual characters with holistic co-speech gestures is a challenging but critical task. Previous systems have primarily focused on the weak correlation between audio and gestures, leading to physically unnatural outcomes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yongkang Cheng , Shaoli Huang