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New model Puppeteer generates object-grounded co-speech gestures

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Researchers have developed Puppeteer, a novel diffusion-based model for generating co-speech gestures. This model is designed to be object-grounded and posture-aware, ensuring gestures are temporally coherent and physically consistent with the surrounding environment. Puppeteer utilizes a causal latent space and introduces new evaluation metrics and a synthetic dataset called SceneGes to advance the field of co-speech gesture synthesis. AI

IMPACT This research advances AI's ability to generate more realistic and context-aware human-like gestures, potentially impacting virtual agents and animation.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel AI model and dataset. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New model Puppeteer generates object-grounded co-speech gestures

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Puppeteer: Object-Grounded Posture-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation

    Puppeteer is a diffusion-based co-speech gesture model that uses causal latent tokens and object geometry to generate temporally coherent, physically grounded gestures.

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