Publications

Selected Publications

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

Rajmund Nagy, Hendric Voss, Thanh Hoang-Minh, Mihail Tsakov, Teodor Nikolov, Zeyi Zhang, Tenglong Ao, Sicheng Yang, Shaoli Huang, Yongkang Cheng, M Hamza Mughal, Rishabh Dabral, Kiran Chhatre, Christian Theobalt, Libin Liu, Stefan Kopp, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Neff, Taras Kucherenko, Youngwoo Yoon, Gustav Eje Henter. 2026. Towards Reliable Human Evaluations in Gesture Generation: Insights from a Community-Driven State-of-the-Art Benchmark. In CVPR Findings. [Paper]

Taras Kucherenko, Derek Peristy, Judith Bütepage. 2025. Evaluating the evaluators: Towards human-aligned metrics for missing markers reconstruction. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM’25). ACM. [Paper]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]