HolisticSemGes: Semantic Grounding of Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Contrastive Flow-Matching

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Source count: 3
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Source paper: HolisticSemGes: Semantic Grounding of Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Contrastive Flow-Matching

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26553v1

Source count: 3

Coverage: 50%

Last proof check: 2026-03-30T22:19:34.241Z

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Our model ensures cross-modal coherence by embedding text, audio, and holistic motion into a composite latent space via cosine and contrastive objectives.
Implicationpartial
The abstract explicitly states this as the core mechanism of the model. The CFM loss function (equation 12) directly supports this.
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Our method achieves consistently strong performance across Fréchet Gesture Distance (FGD), Beat Consistency (BC) and Diversity metrics.
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Tables 1 and 2 provide quantitative results showing lower FGD and higher BC and Diversity scores for the proposed method compared to others.
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Removing SACM leads to a clear and consistent degradation
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Table 2 shows a clear performance improvement (lower FGD, higher BC) when SACM is included compared to its removal ('w/o SACM').
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Existing approaches rely on external semantic retrieval methods, which limit their generalisation capability due to dependency on predefined linguistic rules.
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The abstract explicitly states this as a limitation of prior work, motivating the development of the new approach.
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however, the network is optimised using only semantically congruent samples without exposure to negative examples, leading to learning rhythmic gestures rather than sparse motion, such as iconic and metaphoric gestures.
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The abstract identifies this as a drawback of existing flow-matching methods, which the proposed contrastive approach aims to address.
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The dataset facilitates comprehensive multimodal learning with robust cross-modal alignment between speech audio and full-body motion coded in SMPL-X parameters [32].
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The description of the BEAT2 dataset highlights its features relevant for multimodal learning and robust alignment.
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The dataset provides high-quality 30fps SMPL-X [32] body meshes with holistic full-body, hand, and facial expressions paired with 22kHz audio.
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The description of the SHOW dataset details its comprehensive nature and quality of synchronized multimodal data.
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Our model ensures cross-modal coherence by embedding text, audio, and holistic motion into a composite latent space via cosine and contrastive objectives.
Implicationpartial
This is a direct statement from the abstract describing a key technical aspect of the model's architecture and training.
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Our model ensures cross-modal coherence by embedding text, audio, and holistic motion into a composite latent space via cosine and contrastive objectives.
Implicationpartial
The abstract explicitly states the core method of using mismatched conditions as negatives for contrastive flow matching to achieve semantic grounding.
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Intuitively, the first term attracts the predicted velocity toward the congruent trajectory induced byO, while the second term repels it from trajectories associated with the incongruent multimodal context˜O.
Implicationpartial
The abstract and the description of the LCFM loss function clearly explain the dual role of the contrastive regularization in attracting correct and repelling incorrect trajectories.
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Our method achieves consistently strong performance across Fréchet Gesture Distance (FGD), Beat Consistency (BC) and Diversity metrics.
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Table 1 provides quantitative results showing lower FGD and higher BC and Diversity for 'Ours' compared to RAGGesture, GestureLSM, and SemTalk on the BEAT2 dataset.
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Our method achieves consistently strong performance across Fréchet Gesture Distance (FGD), Beat Consistency (BC) and Diversity metrics.
Implicationpartial
Table 1 provides quantitative results showing lower FGD and higher BC and Diversity for 'Ours' compared to RAGGesture, GestureLSM, and SemTalk on the SHOW dataset.
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