ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions

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Main Authors: Luo, Cheng, Song, Siyang, Xie, Weicheng, Spitale, Micol, Ge, Zongyuan, Shen, Linlin, Gunes, Hatice
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author Luo, Cheng
Song, Siyang
Xie, Weicheng
Spitale, Micol
Ge, Zongyuan
Shen, Linlin
Gunes, Hatice
author_facet Luo, Cheng
Song, Siyang
Xie, Weicheng
Spitale, Micol
Ge, Zongyuan
Shen, Linlin
Gunes, Hatice
contents In dyadic interaction, predicting the listener's facial reactions is challenging as different reactions could be appropriate in response to the same speaker's behaviour. Previous approaches predominantly treated this task as an interpolation or fitting problem, emphasizing deterministic outcomes but ignoring the diversity and uncertainty of human facial reactions. Furthermore, these methods often failed to model short-range and long-range dependencies within the interaction context, leading to issues in the synchrony and appropriateness of the generated facial reactions. To address these limitations, this paper reformulates the task as an extrapolation or prediction problem, and proposes an novel framework (called ReactFace) to generate multiple different but appropriate facial reactions from a speaker behaviour rather than merely replicating the corresponding listener facial behaviours. Our ReactFace generates multiple different but appropriate photo-realistic human facial reactions by: (i) learning an appropriate facial reaction distribution representing multiple different but appropriate facial reactions; and (ii) synchronizing the generated facial reactions with the speaker verbal and non-verbal behaviours at each time stamp, resulting in realistic 2D facial reaction sequences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating multiple diverse, synchronized, and appropriate facial reactions from each speaker's behaviour. The quality of the generated facial reactions is intimately tied to the speaker's speech and facial expressions, achieved through our novel speaker-listener interaction modules. Our code is made publicly available at \url{https://github.com/lingjivoo/ReactFace}.
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spellingShingle ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions
Luo, Cheng
Song, Siyang
Xie, Weicheng
Spitale, Micol
Ge, Zongyuan
Shen, Linlin
Gunes, Hatice
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Multimedia
In dyadic interaction, predicting the listener's facial reactions is challenging as different reactions could be appropriate in response to the same speaker's behaviour. Previous approaches predominantly treated this task as an interpolation or fitting problem, emphasizing deterministic outcomes but ignoring the diversity and uncertainty of human facial reactions. Furthermore, these methods often failed to model short-range and long-range dependencies within the interaction context, leading to issues in the synchrony and appropriateness of the generated facial reactions. To address these limitations, this paper reformulates the task as an extrapolation or prediction problem, and proposes an novel framework (called ReactFace) to generate multiple different but appropriate facial reactions from a speaker behaviour rather than merely replicating the corresponding listener facial behaviours. Our ReactFace generates multiple different but appropriate photo-realistic human facial reactions by: (i) learning an appropriate facial reaction distribution representing multiple different but appropriate facial reactions; and (ii) synchronizing the generated facial reactions with the speaker verbal and non-verbal behaviours at each time stamp, resulting in realistic 2D facial reaction sequences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating multiple diverse, synchronized, and appropriate facial reactions from each speaker's behaviour. The quality of the generated facial reactions is intimately tied to the speaker's speech and facial expressions, achieved through our novel speaker-listener interaction modules. Our code is made publicly available at \url{https://github.com/lingjivoo/ReactFace}.
title ReactFace: Online Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Human-Computer Interaction
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15748