Evaluation of Generative Models for Emotional 3D Animation Generation in VR

ArXi:2512.16081v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Social interactions incorporate nonverbal signals to convey emotions alongside speech, including facial expressions and body gestures. Generative models have nstrated promising results in creating full-body nonverbal animations synchronized with speech; however, evaluations using statistical metrics in 2D settings fail to fully capture user-perceived emotions, limiting our understanding of model effectiveness.