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Christopher Peters

3 accepted papers

2024

Emotional Speech-driven 3D Body Animation via Disentangled Latent Diffusion

CVPR 2024poster

Existing methods for synthesizing 3D human gestures from speech have shown promising results but they do not explicitly model the impact of emotions on the generated gestures. Instead these methods directly output animations from speech without control over the expressed emotion. To address this lim…

2023

Persuasive Polite Robots in Free-Standing Conversational Groups

IROS 2023poster

Politeness is at the core of the common set of behavioral norms that regulate human communication and is therefore of significant interest in the design of Human-Robot Interactions. In this paper, we investigate how the politeness behaviors of a humanoid robot impact human decisions about where to j…

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2022

CreativeBot: a Creative Storyteller Agent Developed by Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models

IROS 2022poster

In an attempt to nurture children's creativity, we developed a creative conversational agent to be used in a collaborative storytelling context with a child. We presented a novel approach to develop creative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our approach uses the four creativity measures: fluency, flexi…

Cited by 7SourceScholar