Who are we?
Our international team includes leading experts on the evaluation of gesture-generation models, as well as experienced model developers and research engineers with experience in deploying gesture-generation models. Together, we are developing the leaderboard and its associated tooling, and we will be responsible for managing and funding year-round crowdsourced human evaluations.
Our cumulative experience covers all major aspects of gesture-generation research, including:
- crowdsourced evaluation: e.g., organising the GENEA Challenges in 2020-2024 (the leading large-scale human evaluation efforts in gesture generation to date!)
- data collection: e.g., TED Gesture dataset
- model development: e.g., Gesticulator (ICMI 2020 Best paper), Gesture Generation from Trimodal Context (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020), StyleGestures (EUROGRAPHICS 2020 Honourable mention), Listen, Denoise, Action! (SIGGRAPH 2023), AQ-GT (ICMI 2023 Best paper)
- visualisation tooling: e.g., Blender, Maya, and Unreal Engine development
Organising team
Youngwoo Yoon
Principal Researcher
ETRI, South Korea
Taras Kucherenko
Research Scientist
Electronic Arts - SEED, Sweden
Gustav Eje Henter
Assistant Professor and CTO
KTH Royal Institute of Technology and motorica.ai, Sweden
Rajmund Nagy
Doctoral Student
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Hendric Voß
Doctoral Student
Bielefeld University, Germany
Thanh Hoang-Minh
MSc Student
VNUHCM - University of Science, Vietnam
Teodor Nikolov
Research Engineer
motorica.ai, Sweden
Mihail Tsakov
Unreal Engine Developer
PixelPool, Netherlands
Scientific advisors
While the organising team handles day-to-day operations, we are fortunate to be advised in key strategic decisions and the leaderboard methodologyby three leading experts of nonverbal communication, visual perception, human-agent interaction, and motion capture.
Rachel McDonnell
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Stefan Kopp
Bielefeld University, Germany