The GENEA (Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents) Grand Challenge 2022 aims at bringing together researchers that use different methods for non-verbal-behaviour generation and evaluation, and hopes to stimulate the discussions on how to improve both the generation methods and the evaluation of the results.

 

The challenge topic is speech-driven gesture generation. Participants are provided a large, common dataset of speech (audio+aligned text) and 3D motion to develop their systems, and then use these systems to generate motion on given test inputs. The generated motion clips are rendered onto a common virtual agent and evaluated for aspects such as motion quality and appropriateness in a crowdsourced user study. More details will be available when the dataset is released. You can refer to the previous challenge here (be aware that the challenge dataset is different from the previous one).

 

• Workshop on Multimodal Affect and Aesthetic Experience
• Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions – Implications, Best Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives (VASTI’22)
• The GENEA Workshop 2022: The 3rd Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents
• 2nd International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding
• MSECP-Wild: The 4th Workshop on Modeling Socio-Emotional and Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data In-the-Wild
• 3rd Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH)