Laxmi Narayen Nagarajan Venkatesan

HAAS: Holistic Attention-free Animation from Speech using Mamba

Synthesizing holistic co-speech gestures that integrate facial expressions and full-body motion is essential for embodied conversational agents in fields such as virtual reality and film. Existing state-of-the-art approaches predominantly rely on attention-based architectures, which suffer from quadratic computational...