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Asli Ozyurek

2 accepted papers

2025

I see what you mean: Co-Speech Gestures for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Dialogue

ACL 2025finding

In face-to-face interaction, we use multiple modalities, including speech and gestures, to communicate information and resolve references to objects. However, how representational co-speech gestures refer to objects remains understudied from a computational perspective. In this work, we address this…

2025

SemGes: Semantics-aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation using Semantic Coherence and Relevance Learning

ICCV 2025poster

Creating a virtual avatar with semantically coherent gestures that are aligned with speech is a challenging task. Existing gesture generation research mainly focused on generating rhythmic beat gestures, neglecting the semantic context of the gestures. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for…