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Learning Individual Styles of Conversational Gesture (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: It learns one person's gesture style from their videos, then turns that person's speech audio into matching hand and arm motion, training on unlabeled clips with rough automatic pose guesses. It beat the usual audio-to-gesture baselines, and a large personal-gesture dataset is now public.

Abstract

Human speech is often accompanied by hand and arm gestures. Given audio speech input, we generate plausible gestures to go along with the sound. Specifically, we perform cross-modal translation from "in-the-wild'' monologue speech of a single speaker to their hand and arm motion. We train on unlabeled videos for which we only have noisy pseudo ground truth from an automatic pose detection system. Our proposed model significantly outperforms baseline methods in a quantitative comparison. To support research toward obtaining a computational understanding of the relationship between gesture and speech, we release a large video dataset of person-specific gestures. The project website with video, code and data can be found at http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shiry/speech2gesture .

Shiry Ginosar, Amir Bar, Gefen Kohavi, Caroline Chan, Andrew Owens, Jitendra Malik
arXiv:1906.04160 · cs.CV, cs.LG, eess.AS · submitted Jun 10, 2019
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