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

Automated generation of 3D human motions from text is a challenging problem. The
generated motions are expected to be sufficiently diverse to explore the text-grounded …

Diffusion models have experienced a surge of interest as highly expressive yet efficiently
trainable probabilistic models. We show that these models are an excellent fit for …

Achieving realistic, vivid, and human-like synthesized conversational gestures conditioned
on multi-modal data is still an unsolved problem due to the lack of available datasets …

How can we animate 3D-characters from a movie script or move robots by simply telling
them what we would like them to do?" How unstructured and complex can we make a …

Action recognition is a relatively established task, where given an input sequence of human
motion, the goal is to predict its action category. This paper, on the other hand, considers a …

Generating animations from natural language sentences finds its applications in aa number
of domains such as movie script visualization, virtual human animation and, robot motion …

Humans use gestures as a means of non-verbal communication. Often accompanying
speech, these gestures have several purposes but in general, aim to convey an intended …

This paper presents a novel framework for automatic speech-driven gesture generation,
applicable to human-agent interaction including both virtual agents and robots. Specifically …

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 …