Neuroimaging studies have shown that the neural mechanisms of motor imagery (MI)
overlap substantially with the mechanisms of motor execution (ME). Surprisingly, however …

Co-speech gestures constitute a unique form of multimodal communication because here
the hand movements are temporally synchronized and semantically integrated with speech …

Virtual characters are much in demand for animated movies, games, and other applications.
Rapid advances in performance capture and advanced rendering techniques have allowed …

Subtle animation details such as finger or facial movements help to bring virtual characters
to life and increase their appeal. However, it is not always possible to capture finger …

In many scenes with human characters, interacting groups are an important factor for
maintaining a sense of realism. However, little is known about what makes these characters …

This article presents the Danish NOMCO Corpus, an annotated multimodal collection of
video-recorded first acquaintance conversations between Danish speakers. The annotation …

Speech and gesture are two integrated and temporally coordinated systems. Manual
gestures can help second language (L2) speakers with vocabulary learning and word …

This paper concerns the form-meaning mapping of communicative actions consisting of
speech and improvised co-speech gestures. Based on the findings of previous cognitive and …

AI faces a trifecta of grand challenges the Energy Wall, the Alignment Problem and the Leap
from Narrow AI to AGI. Contemporary AI solutions consume unsustainable amounts of …

This dissertation is about the relationships that connect verbal language to the typical hand
movements that accompany speech. The two communicative channels of speech and hand …