Incorporating Spatial Awareness in Data-Driven Gesture Generation for Virtual Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04127v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 23:23:50 GMT
• Title: Incorporating Spatial Awareness in Data-Driven Gesture Generation for Virtual Agents
• Authors: Anna Deichler, Simon Alexanderson, Jonas Beskow,
• Abstract summary: This paper focuses on enhancing human-agent communication by integrating spatial context into virtual agents' non-verbal behaviors, specifically gestures. Recent advances in co-speech gesture generation have primarily utilized data-driven methods, which create natural motion but limit the scope of gestures to those performed in a void. Our work aims to extend these methods by enabling generative models to incorporate scene information into speech-driven gesture synthesis.
• Score: 17.299991009921307
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper focuses on enhancing human-agent communication by integrating spatial context into virtual agents' non-verbal behaviors, specifically gestures. Recent advances in co-speech gesture generation have primarily utilized data-driven methods, which create natural motion but limit the scope of gestures to those performed in a void. Our work aims to extend these methods by enabling generative models to incorporate scene information into speech-driven gesture synthesis. We introduce a novel synthetic gesture dataset tailored for this purpose. This development represents a critical step toward creating embodied conversational agents that interact more naturally with their environment and users.

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