Selected Publications

The complete publication list can be found on [Google Scholar], [DBLP], and [ResearchGate].

2024

  • Taras Kucherenko*, Pieter Wolfert*, Youngwoo Yoon*, Carla Viegas, Teodor Nikolov, Mihail Tsakov, and Gustav Eje Henter. 2024. Evaluating gesture-generation in a large-scale open challenge: The GENEA Challenge 2022. In ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). ACM. [Paper] [Project Page]

2023

  • Taras Kucherenko*, Rajmund Nagy*, Youngwoo Yoon*, Jieyeon Woo, Teodor Nikolov, Mihail Tsakov, and Gustav Eje Henter. 2023. The GENEA Challenge 2023: A large scale evaluation of gesture generation models in monadic and dyadic settings. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’23). ACM. [Paper] [Project Page]

  • Simba Nyatsanga, Taras Kucherenko, Chaitanya Ahuja, Gustav Eje Henter, and Michael Neff. (2023). A Comprehensive Review of Data-Driven Co-Speech Gesture Generation. In Computer Graphics Forum (EuroGraphics 2023). [Paper] [Project Page]

2022

  • Youngwoo Yoon*, Pieter Wolfert*, Taras Kucherenko*, Carla Viegas, Teodor Nikolov, Mihail Tsakov, and Gustav Eje Henter. 2022. The GENEA Challenge 2022: A large evaluation of data-driven co-speech gesture generation. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’22). ACM. [Paper] [Project Page] [Video]

  • Yuan He, André Pereira, and Taras Kucherenko. Evaluating Data-Driven Co-Speech Gestures of Embodied Conversational Agents through Real-Time Interaction. International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’22). 2022 [Paper] [Project Page]

  • Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, and Gustav Eje Henter. Multimodal analysis of the predictability of hand-gesture properties. 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). 2022 [Paper] [Project Page] [Video]

2021

  • Taras Kucherenko, Rajmund Nagy, Patrik Jonell, Michael Neff, Hedvig Kjellström, and Gustav Eje Henter. Speech2Properties2Gestures: Gesture-Property Prediction as a Tool for Generating Representational Gestures from Speech. International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’21). 2021 [Paper] [Project Page] Honorable Mention Award

  • Rajmund Nagy*, Taras Kucherenko*, Birger Moell, André Pereira, Hedvig Kjellström, and Ulysses Bernardet. A Framework for Integrating Gesture Generation Models into Interactive Conversational Agents. 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). [Paper] [Code] [Video] [Project Page]

  • Taras Kucherenko, Dai Hasegawa, Naoshi Kaneko, Gustav Eje Henter, and Hedvig Kjellström. Moving fast and slow: Analysis of representations and post-processing in speech-driven automatic gesture generation. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 2021 [Paper] [Code] [Project Page]

  • Taras Kucherenko*, Patrik Jonell*, Youngwoo Yoon*, Pieter Wolfert, and Gustav Eje Henter. A large, crowdsourced evaluation of gesture generation systems on common data: The GENEA Challenge 2020. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 2021 [Paper] [Video] [Project Page]

2020

  • Taras Kucherenko, Patrik Jonell, Sanne van Waveren, Gustav Eje Henter, Simon Alexanderson, Iolanda Leite, and Hedvig Kjellström. Gesticulator: A framework for semantically-aware speech-driven gesture generation. International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ‘20). 2020. [Paper] [Code] [Video] [Project Page] Best Paper Award

  • Taras Kucherenko *, Patrik Jonell*, Youngwoo Yoon*, Pieter Wolfert, and Gustav Eje Henter. The GENEA Challenge 2020: Benchmarking gesture-generation systems on common data. International Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-Verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents. 2020 [Paper] [Video] [Project Page]

  • Patrik Jonell*, Taras Kucherenko*, Ilaria Torre, Jonas Beskow. Can we trust online crowdworkers? Comparing online and offline participants in a preference test of virtual agents. International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’20). 2020 [Paper] [Video]

2019

  • Taras Kucherenko, Dai Hasegawa, Gustav Eje Henter, Naoshi Kaneko, and Hedvig Kjellström. Analyzing input and output representations for speech-driven gesture generation. International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ‘19), Paris, July 02–05, 2019 [Paper] [Code] [Video] [bib] [Project Page]

  • Taras Kucherenko, Dai Hasegawa, Naoshi Kaneko, Gustav Eje Henter, and Hedvig Kjellström. On the importance of representations for speech-driven gesture generation. 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS ‘19), Extended Abstract, Montreal, May 13–17, 2019 [Paper] [Poster] [bib] [Project Page]

2018

  • Taras Kucherenko. Data driven non-verbal behavior generation for humanoid robots. International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ‘18), Doctoral Consortium, Boulder, Oct 12-17, 2018 [Paper]

  • Taras Kucherenko, Jonas Beskow and Hedvig Kjellström. A neural network approach to missing marker reconstruction in human motion capture. arXiv preprint (2018) [Paper] [Code] [Video]