3 papers
cs.GR2026
Reality Check: How Avatar and Face Representation Affect the Perceptual Evaluation of Synthesized Gestures
Haoyang Du, Yinghan Xu, John Dingliana +3
The capacity to create realistic virtual humans has progressed significantly, and such characters can be found in many applications across entertainment, education and health. As a…
cs.GR2025
Synthetically Expressive: Evaluating gesture and voice for emotion and empathy in VR and 2D scenarios
Haoyang Du, Kiran Chhatre, Christopher Peters +3
The creation of virtual humans increasingly leverages automated synthesis of speech and gestures, enabling expressive, adaptable agents that effectively engage users. However, the…
cs.CL2023
BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification
Tannon Kew, Alison Chi, Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez +4
We present BLESS, a comprehensive performance benchmark of the most recent state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on the task of text simplification (TS). We examine how wel…