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Since American Sign Language (ASL) has no standard written form, Deaf signers frequently share videos in order to communicate in their native language. However, since both hands and face convey critical linguistic information in signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhaoyang Xia , Carol Neidle , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Our goal is to generate realistic human motion from natural language. Modern methods often face a trade-off between model expressiveness and text-to-motion alignment. Some align text and motion latent spaces but sacrifice expressiveness;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Nefeli Andreou , Xi Wang , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya , Marie-Paule Cani , Yiorgos Chrysanthou , Vicky Kalogeiton

This paper presents a novel framework for speech-driven gesture production, applicable to virtual agents to enhance human-computer interaction. Specifically, we extend recent deep-learning-based, data-driven methods for speech-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Taras Kucherenko , Dai Hasegawa , Naoshi Kaneko , Gustav Eje Henter , Hedvig Kjellström

Text-guided human motion generation has drawn significant interest because of its impactful applications spanning animation and robotics. Recently, application of diffusion models for motion generation has enabled improvements in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Samaneh Azadi , Akbar Shah , Thomas Hayes , Devi Parikh , Sonal Gupta

There has been a significant progress in text conditional image generation models. Recent advancements in this field depend not only on improvements in model structures, but also vast quantities of text-image paired datasets. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Seungdae Han , Joohee Kim

Text-conditioned video diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool in the realm of video generation and editing. But their ability to capture the nuances of human movement remains under-explored. Indeed the ability of these models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Paul Janson , Tiberiu Popa , Eugene Belilovsky

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

The task of text2motion is to generate human motion sequences from given textual descriptions, where the model explores diverse mappings from natural language instructions to human body movements. While most existing works are confined to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Kunhang Li , Yansong Feng

The objective of this paper is to develop a functional system for translating spoken languages into sign languages, referred to as Spoken2Sign translation. The Spoken2Sign task is orthogonal and complementary to traditional sign language to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ronglai Zuo , Fangyun Wei , Zenggui Chen , Brian Mak , Jiaolong Yang , Xin Tong

It is common practice to represent spoken languages at their phonetic level. However, for sign languages, this implies breaking motion into its constituent motion primitives. Avatar based Sign Language Production (SLP) has traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ben Saunders , Necati Cihan Camgoz , Richard Bowden

Sign Language Production (SLP) is the tough task of turning sign language into sign videos. The main goal of SLP is to create these videos using a sign gloss. In this research, we've developed a new method to make high-quality sign videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Pan Xie , Taiyi Peng , Yao Du , Qipeng Zhang

Text-to-motion generation holds significant potential for cross-linguistic applications, yet it is hindered by the lack of bilingual datasets and the poor cross-lingual semantic understanding of existing language models. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Wanjiang Weng , Xiaofeng Tan , Xiangbo Shu , Guo-Sen Xie , Pan Zhou , Hongsong Wang

Text-to-motion generation, which synthesizes 3D human motions from text inputs, holds immense potential for applications in gaming, film, and robotics. Recently, diffusion-based methods have been shown to generate more diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wanjiang Weng , Xiaofeng Tan , Junbo Wang , Guo-Sen Xie , Pan Zhou , Hongsong Wang

We present SignAvatars, the first large-scale, multi-prompt 3D sign language (SL) motion dataset designed to bridge the communication gap for Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. While there has been an exponentially growing number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhengdi Yu , Shaoli Huang , Yongkang Cheng , Tolga Birdal

This paper addresses the problem of diversity-aware sign language production, where we want to give an image (or sequence) of a signer and produce another image with the same pose but different attributes (\textit{e.g.} gender, skin color).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal , Richard Bowden

The trend in sign language generation is centered around data-driven generative methods that require vast amounts of precise 2D and 3D human pose data to achieve an acceptable generation quality. However, currently, most sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Kaustubh Kundu , Hrishav Bakul Barua , Lucy Robertson-Bell , Zhixi Cai , Kalin Stefanov

Modern computational linguistic software cannot produce important aspects of sign language translation. Using some researches we deduce that the majority of automatic sign language translation systems ignore many aspects when they generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-03-15 Mehrez Boulares , Mohamed Jemni

Audio is the primary modality for human communication and has driven the success of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies. However, such audio-centric systems inherently exclude individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jeong Hun Yeo , Hyeongseop Rha , Sungjune Park , Junil Won , Yong Man Ro

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

We introduce MoLingo, a text-to-motion (T2M) model that generates realistic, lifelike human motion by denoising in a continuous latent space. Recent works perform latent space diffusion, either on the whole latent at once or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yannan He , Garvita Tiwari , Xiaohan Zhang , Pankaj Bora , Tolga Birdal , Jan Eric Lenssen , Gerard Pons-Moll