Conversational agents (CAs) are software-based systems designed to interact with humans
using natural language and have attracted considerable research interest in recent years …

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 …

The automatic generation of stylized co-speech gestures has recently received increasing
attention. Previous systems typically allow style control via predefined text labels or example …

Automatic synthesis of realistic co-speech gestures is an increasingly important yet
challenging task in artificial embodied agent creation. Previous systems mainly focus on …

For human-like agents, including virtual avatars and social robots, making proper gestures
while speaking is crucial in human-agent interaction. Co-speech gestures enhance …

The role of robots in society keeps expanding and diversifying, bringing with it a host of
issues surrounding the relationship between robots and humans. This introduction to human …

Human speech is often accompanied by hand and arm gestures. We present a method for
cross-modal translation from" in-the-wild" monologue speech of a single speaker to their …

Communication between people is characterized by a broad range of nonverbal cues.
Transferring these cues into the design of robots and other artificial agents that interact with …

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 …

ABSTRACT We present SimSensei Kiosk, an implemented virtual human interviewer
designed to create an engaging face-to-face interaction where the user feels comfortable …