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WASP-affiliated researchers win best paper award

Shivam Mehta, Simon Alexanderson and Anna Deichler.
Shivam Mehta, Simon Alexanderson and Anna Deichler.
Published Aug 22, 2024

A team of researchers and doctoral students affiliated with WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program) were honoured with the Best Paper Award at the inaugural Human Motion Generation (HuMoGen) workshop, part of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024) held in Seattle, USA.

The award-winning paper, titled "Fake it to Make it: Using Synthetic Data to Remedy the Data Shortage in Joint Multimodal Speech-and-Gesture Synthesis," was co-authored by Shivam Mehta, Anna Deichler, Jim O'Regan, Birger Moëll, Jonas Beskow, Gustav Eje Henter, and Simon Alexanderson.

The following WASP-affiliated authors contributed to the paper (listed alphabetically):

  • Simon Alexanderson, Researcher at KTH
  • Jonas Beskow, Professor at KTH
  • Gustav Eje Henter, Assistant Professor at KTH
  • Shivam Mehta, PhD Student at KTH

Link to the paper "Fake it to Make it: Using Synthetic Data to Remedy the Data Shortage in Joint Multimodal Speech-and-Gesture Synthesis"

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