Human motion generation aims to generate natural human pose sequences and shows
immense potential for real-world applications. Substantial progress has been made recently …

Research on the use of software programs and tools such as pedagogical agents has
peaked over the last decade. Pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that facilitate …

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 …

Co-speech gesture is crucial for human-machine interaction and digital entertainment. While
previous works mostly map speech audio to human skeletons (eg, 2D keypoints), directly …

In online shopping environments, the product-advising function originally performed by
salespeople is being increasingly taken over by software-based product recommendation …

We propose the first approach to synthesize the synchronous 3D conversational body and
hand gestures, as well as 3D face and head animations, of a virtual character from speech …

Abstract We propose DiffSHEG a Diffusion-based approach for Speech-driven Holistic 3D
Expression and Gesture generation. While previous works focused on co-speech gesture or …

While the research area of artificial intelligence benefited from increasingly sophisticated
machine learning techniques in recent years, the resulting systems suffer from a loss of …

Over the last years, the animation of interface agents has been the target of increasing
interest. Largely, this increase in attention is fuelled by speculated effects on human …

We are interested in increasing the ability of groups to collaborate efficiently by leveraging
new advances in AI and Conversational Agent (CA) technology. Given the longstanding …