Co-speech gesture video generation is an enabling technique for many digital human applications. Substantial progress has been made in creating high-quality talking head videos. However, existing hand gesture video generation methods are primarily limited by the widely adopted 2D skeleton-based gesture representation and still struggle to generate realistic hands. We introduce an audio-driven co-speech video generation pipeline to synthesize human speech videos leveraging 3D human mesh-based representations. By adopting a 3D human mesh-based gesture representation, we present a mesh-grounded video generator that includes a mesh texture map optimization step followed by a conditional GAN network and outputs photorealistic gesture videos with realistic hands. Our experiments on the TalkSHOW dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our method over 2D skeleton-based baselines.

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Co-speech Gesture Video Generation with 3D Human Meshes

  • Aniruddha Mahapatra,
  • Richa Mishra,
  • Renda Li,
  • Ziyi Chen,
  • Boyang Ding,
  • Shoulei Wang,
  • Jun-Yan Zhu,
  • Peng Chang,
  • Mei Han,
  • Jing Xiao

摘要

Co-speech gesture video generation is an enabling technique for many digital human applications. Substantial progress has been made in creating high-quality talking head videos. However, existing hand gesture video generation methods are primarily limited by the widely adopted 2D skeleton-based gesture representation and still struggle to generate realistic hands. We introduce an audio-driven co-speech video generation pipeline to synthesize human speech videos leveraging 3D human mesh-based representations. By adopting a 3D human mesh-based gesture representation, we present a mesh-grounded video generator that includes a mesh texture map optimization step followed by a conditional GAN network and outputs photorealistic gesture videos with realistic hands. Our experiments on the TalkSHOW dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our method over 2D skeleton-based baselines.