Talks and Presentations

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LLAniMAtion: LLAMA Driven Gesture Animation

August 23, 2024

Journal proceedings talk, 23rd ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium On Computer Animation, Montréal, Canada

Presented the paper LLAniMAtion: LLAMA Driven Gesture Animation discussing the methood, results and observations. View the paper here.

UEA Digital Humans entry to the GENEA Challenge 2023

October 09, 2023

Conference proceedings talk, 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction , Paris, France

Presented a Cross-Attentive Transformer-XL model to the GENEA Challenge 2023, discussed the results and observations. View the presentation here.

Intoroduction to AI

May 27, 2023

Guest Lecture, Xansium Digital Transformation, Chelmsford, England

Provided a guest lecture regarding the introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Software Developers and Executives.

UEA Digital Humans entry to the GENEA Challenge 2022

November 11, 2022

Conference proceedings talk, 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction , Bengaluru, India

Presented two gesture-generation methods to the GENEA Challenge, discussed the results and observations. View the presentation here.

Motion Symmetry In Conversation

October 16, 2021

Workshop talk, ICCV 2021 - International Conference on Computer Vision, 1st Workshop on Crossmodal Social Animation, Montreal, Canada

Presented initial findings for the “Motion Symmetry In Conversation” paper which was later published in Speech Communication. The presentation can be seen here.