This work addresses the problem of generating 3D holistic body motions from human
speech. Given a speech recording, we synthesize sequences of 3D body poses, hand …

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Yannakakis Julian Togelius Page 2 Artificial Intelligence and Games Page 3 Georgios N …

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 …

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 …

While virtual humans are proven tools for training, education and research, they are far from
realizing their full potential. Advances are needed in individual capabilities, such as …

Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only
natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …

In the future, robots may live with users as long-term companions, thus it is important that
some sort of attachment relationship develop between humans and agents. Man's best …

Virtual characters are an important part of many 3D graphical simulations. In entertainment
or training applications, virtual characters might be one of the main mechanisms for creating …

In order to create effective storytelling agents three fundamental questions must be
answered: first, is a physically embodied agent preferable to a virtual agent or a voice-only …

Conversational agents (CAs) play an important role in human computer interaction (HCI).
Creating believable movements for CAs is challenging, since the movements have to be …