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 …

Social Virtual Reality (social VR or SVR) provides digital spaces for diverse human activities,
social interactions, and embodied face-to-face encounters. While our digital bodies in SVR …

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 …

Most existing monocular 3D pose estimation approaches only focus on a single body part,
neglecting the fact that the essential nuance of human motion is conveyed through a concert …

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 …

We present a framework for generating full-bodied photorealistic avatars that gesture
according to the conversational dynamics of a dyadic interaction. Given speech audio we …

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 …

Natural hand manipulations exhibit complex finger maneuvers adaptive to object shapes
and the tasks at hand. Learning dexterous manipulation from data in a brute force way …

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 …

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 …