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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

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

Generating vivid and diverse 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for various applications in animating virtual avatars. While most existing methods can generate gestures from audio directly, they usually overlook that emotion is one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Xingqun Qi , Chen Liu , Lincheng Li , Jie Hou , Haoran Xin , Xin Yu

Electromyography (EMG)-based gesture recognition has emerged as a promising approach for human-computer interaction. However, its performance is often limited by the scarcity of labeled EMG data, significant cross-user variability, and poor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Nana Wang , Gen Li , Pengfei Ren , Hao Su , Suli Wang

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

Audio-driven human gesture synthesis is a crucial task with broad applications in virtual avatars, human-computer interaction, and creative content generation. Despite notable progress, existing methods often produce gestures that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xukun Zhou , Fengxin Li , Ming Chen , Yan Zhou , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Yeying Jin , Zhaoxin Fan , Hongyan Liu , Jun He

Automatic gesture synthesis from speech is a topic that has attracted researchers for applications in remote communication, video games and Metaverse. Learning the mapping between speech and 3D full-body gestures is difficult due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Kunkun Pang , Dafei Qin , Yingruo Fan , Julian Habekost , Takaaki Shiratori , Junichi Yamagishi , Taku Komura

Generating gestures from human speech has gained tremendous progress in animating virtual avatars. While the existing methods enable synthesizing gestures cooperated by individual self-talking, they overlook the practicality of concurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xingqun Qi , Yatian Wang , Hengyuan Zhang , Jiahao Pan , Wei Xue , Shanghang Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Co-speech gesture generation is crucial for creating lifelike avatars and enhancing human-computer interactions by synchronizing gestures with speech. Despite recent advancements, existing methods struggle with accurately identifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pinxin Liu , Pengfei Zhang , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Ari Shapiro , Kyle Olszewski

Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation aims to generate vivid speech videos from audio-driven still images, which is challenging due to the diversity of body parts in terms of motion amplitude, audio relevance, and detailed features. Relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Siyuan Wang , Jiawei Liu , Wei Wang , Yeying Jin , Jinsong Du , Zhi Han

In filmmaking, directors typically allow actors to perform freely based on the script before providing specific guidance on how to present key actions. AI-generated content faces similar requirements, where users not only need automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zheng Qin , Ruobing Zheng , Yabing Wang , Tianqi Li , Zixin Zhu , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

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

The field has made significant progress in synthesizing realistic human motion driven by various modalities. Yet, the need for different methods to animate various body parts according to different control signals limits the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zixiang Zhou , Yu Wan , Baoyuan Wang

For human-like agents, including virtual avatars and social robots, making proper gestures while speaking is crucial in human--agent interaction. Co-speech gestures enhance interaction experiences and make the agents look alive. However, it…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Youngwoo Yoon , Bok Cha , Joo-Haeng Lee , Minsu Jang , Jaeyeon Lee , Jaehong Kim , Geehyuk Lee

Inferring full-body poses from Head Mounted Devices, which capture only 3-joint observations from the head and wrists, is a challenging task with wide AR/VR applications. Previous attempts focus on learning one-stage motion mapping and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Fangyu Du , Yang Yang , Xuehao Gao , Hongye Hou

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

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

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

We introduce a real-time, human-in-the-loop gesture control framework that can dynamically adapt audio and music based on human movement by analyzing live video input. By creating a responsive connection between visual and auditory stimuli,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Mahya Khazaei , Ali Bahrani , George Tzanetakis

Generating 3D human gestures and speech from a text script is critical for creating realistic talking avatars. One solution is to leverage separate pipelines for text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-gesture (STG), but this approach suffers…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Zixin Guo , Jian Zhang