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

Co-speech gestures, gestures that accompany speech, play an important role in human
communication. Automatic co-speech gesture generation is thus a key enabling technology …

Artificial-intelligence (AI) powered conversational (CAI) agents have been growing in
popularity. Like human personality, CAI agent personality can also impact the relationship …

Co-speech gestures are a crucial, non-verbal modality for humans to communicate. Social
agents also need this capability to be more human-like and comprehensive. This study aims …

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 …

In many research areas, for example motion and gesture generation, objective measures
alone do not provide an accurate impression of key stimulus traits such as perceived quality …

Recently there has been a tremendous growth in the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI)
based conversational agents (CA). Their support for anthropomorphism and human-likeness …

Gestures are crucial for increasing the human-likeness of agents and robots to achieve
smoother interactions with humans. The realization of an effective system to model human …

Communicative gestures and speech acoustic are tightly linked. Our objective is to predict
the timing of gestures according to the acoustic. That is, we want to predict when a certain …