adapt-expert-headshot_YlvaFerstl - Ylva Ferstl

Ylva Ferstl

PhD student

Status: Former Member

Email Address: ylva.ferstl@adaptcentre.ie

Ylva Ferstl is a PhD student working on using machine learning for synthesis of gesture animation for virtual humans. She is currently interning at Facebook Reality Labs in the department of AR/VR.

Research Domains

Animation and Graphics
Machine Learning

Publications

Investigating how speech and animation realism influence the perceived personality of virtual characters and agents

PUBLICATION:	VR 2022 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
AUTHOR(S):	Sean Thomas, Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis
DATE:	12 March 2022
TYPE:	Conf papers

It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching

PUBLICATION:	AAMAS '21 - 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 March 2021
TYPE:	Conf papers

Human or Robot? Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents

PUBLICATION:	IVA '21 - 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cedric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 September 2021
TYPE:	Conf papers

Evaluating Study Design and Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Hand Tracking Loss

PUBLICATION:	SAP '21 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Neff
DATE:	01 September 2021
TYPE:	Conf papers

Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and Their Perceptual Importance

PUBLICATION:	IVA '20 - 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	19 September 2020
TYPE:	Conf papers

Multi-objective adversarial gesture generation

PUBLICATION:	ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 October 2019
TYPE:	Conf papers

Investigating the use of recurrent motion modelling for speech gesture generation

PUBLICATION:	IVA '18 - International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	05 November 2018
TYPE:	Conf papers

A perceptual study on the manipulation of facial features for trait portrayal in virtual agents

PUBLICATION:	IVA '18 - International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	05 November 2018
TYPE:	Conf papers

Automatic gesture generation for virtual humans with deep temporal learning

PUBLICATION:	VSI 2017 - 3rd International Workshop on Virtual Social Interaction
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 July 2017
TYPE:	Conf papers

ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching

PUBLICATION:	Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 July 2021
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Adversarial gesture generation with realistic gesture phasing

PUBLICATION:	Computers & Graphics
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 June 2020
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Facial features of non-player creatures can influence moral decisions in video games

PUBLICATION:	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 January 2017
TYPE:	Journal Articles