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 …

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 …

Animation is an excellent method to associate with the audience in a fun and innovative
manner. In recent span, animation has been employed in various fields to enhance …

Automatic synthesis of realistic gestures promises to transform the fields of animation,
avatars and communicative agents. In off‐line applications, novel tools can alter the role of …

Recent deep learning-based approaches have shown promising results for synthesizing
plausible 3D human gestures from speech input. However, these approaches typically offer …

Consistently exhibited personalities are crucial elements of realistic, engaging, and behavior-
rich conversational virtual agents. Both nonverbal and verbal cues help convey these …

Style is an intrinsic, inescapable part of human motion. It complements the content of motion
to convey meaning, mood, and personality. Existing state-of-the-art motion style methods …

The portrayed personality of virtual characters and agents is understood to influence how we
perceive and engage with digital applications. Understanding how the features of speech …

Research on creation of virtual humans enables increasing automatization of their behavior,
including synthesis of verbal and nonverbal behavior. As the achievable realism of different …

Conversational agents (CAs)—software systems emulating conversations with humans
through natural language—reshape our communication environment. As CAs have been …