معرفی
Zerrin Yumak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, specializing in virtual humans and social robotics. She leads Task 3.2: Embodiment and Physical Interaction in the RAGE project.
Her research focuses on
- Social and emotional behavior analysis for virtual characters
- Machine learning applications in motion capture data
- Constrained motion graph search algorithms
- Lip-sync and gesture animation generation
- Real-time multimodal interaction systems
Notable projects include the Virtual Human Controller asset for Unity 3D, integrated with BiP Media and Randstad applications. Recent work spans
- 2025: SemGes for semantics-aware gesture generation
- 2024: ProbTalk3D emotion-controllable facial animation
- 2023: Diffusion model-based facial animation (Facediffuser)
- 2020: Music-driven expressive gesture generation
She contributes to workshops like GENEA (2021-2022) and MASSXR (2025), advancing non-verbal behavior modeling for embodied agents.
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