EMoG: Synthesizing Emotive Co-speech 3D Gesture with Diffusion Model

Abstract

Although previous co-speech gesture generation methods are able to synthesize motions in line with speech content, it is still not enough to handle diverse and complicated motion distribution. The key challenges are: 1) the one-to-many nature between the speech content and gestures; 2) the correlation modeling between the body joints. In this paper, we present a novel framework (EMoG) to tackle the above challenges with denoising diffusion models: 1) To alleviate the one-to-many problem, we incorporate emotion clues to guide the generation process, making the generation much easier; 2) To model joint correlation, we propose to decompose the difficult gesture generation into two sub-problems: joint correlation modeling and temporal dynamics modeling. Then, the two sub-problems are explicitly tackled with our proposed Joint Correlation-aware transFormer (JCFormer). Through extensive evaluations, we demonstrate that our proposed method surpasses previous state-of-the-art approaches, offering substantial superiority in gesture synthesis.