3 papers
cs.RO2025
Learning to Generate Pointing Gestures in Situated Embodied Conversational Agents
Anna Deichler, Siyang Wang, Simon Alexanderson +1
One of the main goals of robotics and intelligent agent research is to enable natural communication with humans in physically situated settings. While recent work has focused on ve…
cs.HC2024
Incorporating Spatial Awareness in Data-Driven Gesture Generation for Virtual Agents
Anna Deichler, Simon Alexanderson, Jonas Beskow
This paper focuses on enhancing human-agent communication by integrating spatial context into virtual agents' non-verbal behaviors, specifically gestures. Recent advances in co-spe…
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…