ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching

• Published in: Computer animation and virtual worlds Vol. 32; no. 3-4
• Main Authors: Ferstl, Ylva, Neff, Michael, McDonnell, Rachel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2021
• Subjects: Acceleration; computer animation; conversational agents; expressive agents; gesture generation; Gesture recognition; Machine learning; Motion capture; motion matching; Parameters; perception; Sequences; Speech

Co‐speech gestures are a vital ingredient in making virtual agents more human‐like and engaging. Automatically generated gestures based on speech‐input often lack realistic and defined gesture form. We present a database‐driven approach guaranteeing defined gesture form. We built a large corpus of o...