3 papers
cs.CV2025
Grounded Gesture Generation: Language, Motion, and Space
Anna Deichler, Jim O'Regan, Teo Guichoux +2
Human motion generation has advanced rapidly in recent years, yet the critical problem of creating spatially grounded, context-aware gestures has been largely overlooked. Existing…
cs.CV2024
MM-Conv: A Multi-modal Conversational Dataset for Virtual Humans
Anna Deichler, Jim O'Regan, Jonas Beskow
In this paper, we present a novel dataset captured using a VR headset to record conversations between participants within a physics simulator (AI2-THOR). Our primary objective is t…
cs.HC2024
Fake it to make it: Using synthetic data to remedy the data shortage in joint multimodal speech-and-gesture synthesis
Shivam Mehta, Anna Deichler, Jim O'Regan +4
Although humans engaged in face-to-face conversation simultaneously communicate both verbally and non-verbally, methods for joint and unified synthesis of speech audio and co-speec…