Gestures that accompany speech are an essential part of natural and efficient embodied
human communication. The automatic generation of such co‐speech gestures is a long …

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are often designed to produce nonverbal behavior
to complement or enhance their verbal communication. One such form of the nonverbal …

This paper reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-
speech gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset …

This paper reports on the GENEA Challenge 2023, in which participating teams built speech-
driven gesture-generation systems using the same speech and motion dataset, followed by …

Non-verbal social human behavior forecasting has increasingly attracted the interest of the
research community in recent years. Its direct applications to human-robot interaction and …

Telecommunications technology has evolved rapidly, creating opportunities to diversify the
communication culture through AI mediation. We anticipate that people will interchangeably …

This article reports on the second GENEA Challenge to benchmark data-driven automatic co-
speech gesture generation. Participating teams used the same speech and motion dataset …

Gestures perform a variety of communicative functions that powerfully influence human face-
to-face interaction. How this communicative function is achieved varies greatly between …

This paper introduces a new model to generate rhythmically relevant non-verbal facial
behaviors for virtual agents while they speak. The model demonstrates perceived …

The development of data-driven behaviour generating systems has recently become the
focus of considerable attention in the fields of human–agent interaction and human–robot …