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It was my pleasure to give a tutorial on gesture generation at the WASP Research Summer School 2022. Students made a full story using ML: text using GPT-3, then text2speech and speech2gestures. Here are some examples: youtube.com/playlist?list=… @WASPresearch

Do gestures really affect how people perceive animated characters? And if so, how do you measure it? SEED’s own 🇺🇦 Taras Kucherenko @[email protected] co-authored a paper for The IVA Conference that shows how to test people's reactions to gesturing characters. Check it out! #IVA22 ea.com/seed/news/eval…

Checkout this amazing work on high-fidelity lip-sync animation from my colleagues at SEED, Electronic Arts

What do you think will happen first: the Russian Federation collapsing or the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war?

Looking forward to hosting the @WorkshopGenea at ACM ICMI Official in India later this year. Grateful to SEED for sponsoring those amazing T-shirts and to WASP Research for sponsoring their design.

When a game character gestures as it talks, does it feel lifelike? And how do you benchmark the realism of co-speech gestures? This was the purpose of the GENEA Challenge 2022. Check out the paper and video. It's presented this week at ICMI 2022. ea.com/seed/news/gene…

Show-off alert! My first published work from IVA 2019 has now reached 100 citations 🥳 I calculated that out of those, 14 were self-citations, meaning that one of the paper authors was a part of them. What is your self-citation rate? :) #animation #MachineLearning

We are very happy to announce the last NGC Nijmegen Gesture Center talk of 2022 on 14 Dec 16:00 CET by Dr. Taras Kucharenko 🇺🇦 Taras Kucherenko @[email protected] working Electronic Arts. this is a hybrid talk to be given MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics in person but talk can be watched in zoom. for sign up sites.google.com/view/nijmegeng…

Multimodallang Dept @MPİ_NL is HIRING MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics !! looking for a software engineer/machine learning specialist who will help develop tools to automatically recognise speech and gestures in big corpora!! in collaboration with Peter Uhrig, @esam__ghaleb and others mpi.nl/career-educati…

Finally, I am on Mastodon: @[email protected] Please follow me there as I intend to leave Twitter #Mastodon #mastodonmigration #FreedomOfSpeech

I have a tradition to make my CO2 emission public after the New Year. Not fully sure yet why I do it 😃 Last year my CO2 emission was much higher than I wished, mainly due to a work trip to India. This year I plan to mainly stay in Europe and hope to have much lower #emission.

Looking forward to the GENEA Challenge 2023 at ACM ICMI Official

It is hard for me to listen to a discussion about sustainability and climate change that does not advocate for nuclear energy. Is it just me? 🤔 #Sustainability #NuclearEnergy

Lifelike and emotive gestures are a huge part of making believable human game characters. SEED’s own 🇺🇦 Taras Kucherenko @[email protected] has co-authored this terrific paper for #Eurographics2023 that surveys the landscape of gesture generation driven by data. Check it out! ea.com/seed/news/seed…

Last week at #EuroGraphics2023 I had my longest presentation at the conference yet (45 min). Together with Michael Neff, we presented our review paper "A Comprehensive Review of Data-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation": diglib.eg.org/xmlui/handle/1… #animation #machinelearning #hci

Pretty impressive #SIGGRAPH2023 dance synthesis and gesture generation model from my ex-colleagues at KTH: Listen, denoise, action! Audio-driven motion synthesis with diffusion models youtu.be/Qfd2EpzWgok #gesture #animation

Happy that my reviews were appreciated by #CVPR2025 Is it time to start paying researchers for good reviews? 😉