Zero-Shot Generation of Semantic Co-Speech Gestures -- new paper out in ACM TiiS
A new paper is just out in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems: “ImaGGen: Zero-Shot Generation of Co-Speech Semantic Gestures …
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Keynote given at MMSYM 2026
Stefan delivered a keynote to the Symposium on Multimodal Communication (MMSYM 2026) held at KU Leuven, Belgium, discussing the trends, challenges and …
Papers accepted at IVA, SIGDIAL and SemDial
New papers got accepted and will be presented soon at the following conferences: “Natural Language Question Understanding” with Christoph …
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PhD graduation part 1 — Congrats to Annika Österdiekhoff!
Annika Österdiekhoff successfully defended her PhD thesis on modeling a sense of control in RL agents. Congratulations!! And many thanks to Verena …
PhD graduation part 2 — Congratulations, Hendric Voss!
After 5 years of research, Hendric Voss defended his PhD thesis on generating semantically meaningful and contextually relevant gestures – …
Doctoral Network on Embodied Multimodal Communication funded by EU Horizon
Excited to share that we are part of a new MSCA Doctoral Network on “Embodied Multimodal Human Communication and Modeling” (EMHCAM) that …
New paper out showing that a sense of control fosters AI agent learning of how to do multitasking
A new paper “Giving AI agents a sense of control facilitates reinforcement learning in multitasking scenarios” is now out and publicly …
Workshop "Multimodal creativity in speech and gesture production" at ZiF
Join us at the ZiF in Bielefeld for a workshop on “Multimodal creativity in speech and gesture production” on Dec 1st and 2nd! We are …
