Zerrin Yumak

Associate Professor, Utrecht University

Joined

July 2021

Names

Zerrin Yumak (Preferred)

Emails

****@uu.nl (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Associate Professor

Utrecht University (uu.nl)

2025 – Present

Assistant Professor

Utrecht University (uu.nl)

2015 – 2024

Postdoc

Nanyang Technological University (ntu.edu.sg)

2013 – 2015

Postdoc

EPFL - EPF Lausanne (epfl.ch)

2012 – 2013

PhD student

University of Geneva (unige.ch)

2006 – 2011

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Nadia Thalmann

2006 – Present

Expertise

Virtual humans

Present

Motion synthesis

Present

Non-verbal behavior generation

Present

Publications

"Wild West" of Evaluating Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation Synthesis: A Benchmark Study
Alkiviadis Pavlou, Kazi Injamamul Haque, Zerrin Yumak
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
ProbTalk3D Non-Deterministic Emotion Controllable Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation Synthesis Using VQ-VAE
Zerrin Yumak, Kazi Injamamul Haque, Sichun Wu
- https://uuembodiedsocialai.github.io/ProbTalk3D/
- Readers: Everyone
FaceDiffuser Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation Synthesis Using Diffusion
Stefan Stan, Kazi Injamamul Haque, Zerrin Yumak
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
FaceXHuBERT: Text-less Speech-driven E(X)pressive 3D Facial Animation Synthesis Using Self-Supervised Speech Representation
Kazi Injamamul Haque, Zerrin Yumak
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
GENEA Workshop 2022: The 3rd Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents
Pieter Wolfert, Taras Kucherenko, Carla Viegas, Zerrin Yumak, Youngwoo Yoon, Gustav Eje Henter
- 2022 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICMI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
GENEA Workshop 2021: The 2nd Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents
Taras Kucherenko, Patrik Jonell, Youngwoo Yoon, Pieter Wolfert, Zerrin Yumak, Gustav Eje Henter
- 2021 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICMI 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Music-Driven Animation Generation of Expressive Musical Gestures
Alysha Bogaers, Zerrin Yumak, Anja Volk
- 2020 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICMI Companion 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Artificial intelligence moving serious gaming: Presenting reusable game AI components
Wim Westera, Rui Prada, Samuel Mascarenhas, Pedro Santos, João Dias, Manuel Guimarães, Konstantinos Georgiadis, Enkhbold Nyamsuren, Kiavash Bahreini, Zerrin Yumak, Chris Christyowidiasmoro, Mihai Dascalu, Gabriel Gutu-Robu, Stefan Ruseti
- 2020 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- Educ. Inf. Technol. 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Non-Verbal Behavior Generation for Virtual Characters in Group Conversations
Ferdinand de Coninck, Zerrin Yumak, Guntur Sandino, Remco C. Veltkamp
- 2019 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- AIVR 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Audio-driven emotional speech animation for interactive virtual characters
Constantinos Charalambous, Zerrin Yumak, A. Frank van der Stappen
- 2019 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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