2026 Jonas Beskow: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	39	9837	9556	71	70	204	5740

Overview

Jonas Beskow is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science, primarily focusing on artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, signal processing, social psychology, and control and systems engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Speech and dialogue systems
Human pose and action recognition
Speech recognition and synthesis
Human motion and animation
Social robot interaction and human-robot interaction
Music and audio processing
Speech and audio processing

Beskow has published extensively, with a total of 45 publications primarily in the field of computer science.

Their frequent co-authors include:

Gustav Eje Henter
Simon Alexanderson
Shivam Mehta
Anna Deichler
Éva Székely

They have contributed to multiple publications in major venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Graphics
Computer Graphics Forum
Frontiers in Computer Science
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

Notable recent papers include:

"Style-Controllable Speech-Driven Gesture Synthesis Using Normalising Flows", 2020, published in Computer Graphics Forum
"Listen, Denoise, Action! Audio-Driven Motion Synthesis with Diffusion Models", 2023, published in ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Transflower", 2021, published in ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Multimodal Capture of Patient Behaviour for Improved Detection of Early Dementia: Clinical Feasibility and Preliminary Results", 2021, published in Frontiers in Computer Science
"Diffusion-Based Co-Speech Gesture Generation Using Joint Text and Audio Representation", 2023, published in INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION

Best Publications

Wavesurfer - an open source speech tool.

Kåre Sjölander;Jonas Beskow

689
Citations
Furhat: a back-projected human-like robot head for multiparty human-machine interaction

Samer Al Moubayed;Jonas Beskow;Gabriel Skantze;Björn Granström

330
Citations
MoGlow: probabilistic and controllable motion synthesis using normalising flows

Gustav Eje Henter;Simon Alexanderson;Jonas Beskow

282
Citations
RULE-BASED VISUAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS

Jonas Beskow

206
Citations
Listen, Denoise, Action! Audio-Driven Motion Synthesis with Diffusion Models

Unknown

189
Citations
Developing and evaluating conversational agents

Dominic W. Massaro;Michael M. Cohen;Jonas Beskow;Ronald A. Cole

178
Citations
Style-Controllable Speech-Driven Gesture Synthesis Using Normalising Flows

Simon Alexanderson;Gustav Eje Henter;Taras Kucherenko;Jonas Beskow

171
Citations
ANIMATION OF TALKING AGENTS

Jonas Beskow

147
Citations
AdApt — A Multimodal Conversational Dialogue System in an Apartment Domain

Joakim Gustafson;Linda Bell;Jonas Beskow;Johan Boye

128
Citations
Picture My Voice : Audio to Visual Speech Synthesis using Artificial Neural Networks

Dominic W. Massaro;Jonas Beskow;Michael M. Cohen;Christopher L. Fry

126
Citations
Talking Heads - Models and Applications for Multimodal Speech Synthesis

Jonas Beskow

112
Citations
THE FURHAT BACK-PROJECTED HUMANOID HEAD–LIP READING, GAZE AND MULTI-PARTY INTERACTION

Samer Al Moubayed;Gabriel Skantze;Jonas Beskow

102
Citations
Transflower

Unknown

99
Citations
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FACIAL ANIMATION : AN INSIDE VIEW

Michael M. Cohen;Jonas Beskow;Dominic W. Massaro

98
Citations
New tools for interactive speech and language training: Using animated conversational agents in the classrooms of profoundly deaf children

Ron Cole;Dominic W. Massaro;Jacques de Villiers;Brian Rundle

96
Citations
Visual correlates to prominence in several expressive modes

Jonas Beskow;Björn Granström;David House

95
Citations
Taming Mona Lisa: Communicating gaze faithfully in 2D and 3D facial projections

Samer Al Moubayed;Jens Edlund;Jonas Beskow

90
Citations
Timing and interaction of visual cues for prominence in audiovisual speech perception.

David House;Jonas Beskow;Björn Granström

88
Citations
Spontal: A Swedish Spontaneous Dialogue Corpus of Audio, Video and Motion Capture

Jens Edlund;Jonas Beskow;Kjell Elenius;Kahl Hellmer

87
Citations
Let's Face It: Probabilistic Multi-modal Interlocutor-aware Generation of Facial Gestures in Dyadic Settings

Patrik Jonell;Taras Kucherenko;Gustav Eje Henter;Jonas Beskow

82
Citations
Olga - a conversational agent with gestures

Jonas Beskow;Scott McGlashan

79
Citations
SYNFACE, a talking head telephone for the hearing impaired

Jonas Beskow;Inger Karlsson;Jo Kewley;Giampiero Salvi

73
Citations
Speech Synthesis Evaluation : State-of-the-Art Assessment and Suggestion for a Novel Research Program

Petra Wagner;Jonas Beskow;Simon Betz;Jens Edlund

58
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic W. Massaro University of California, Santa Cruz

Miia Kivipelto University of Eastern Finland

Carol O'Sullivan Trinity College Dublin

Iolanda Leite Royal Institute of Technology

Philippe G. Schyns University of Glasgow

Manfred Tscheligi University of Salzburg

Vesna Jelic Karolinska University Hospital

Fabio Pianesi Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Alex Waibel Carnegie Mellon University

Jérôme Härri EURECOM

External Links

Personal website of Jonas Beskow

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