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Main Authors: Zhu, Lei, Lin, Lijian, Zhu, Ye, Wu, Jiahao, Hou, Xuehan, Li, Yu, Liu, Yunfei, Chen, Jie
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01749
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author Zhu, Lei
Lin, Lijian
Zhu, Ye
Wu, Jiahao
Hou, Xuehan
Li, Yu
Liu, Yunfei
Chen, Jie
author_facet Zhu, Lei
Lin, Lijian
Zhu, Ye
Wu, Jiahao
Hou, Xuehan
Li, Yu
Liu, Yunfei
Chen, Jie
contents Current audio-driven 3D head generation methods mainly focus on single-speaker scenarios, lacking natural, bidirectional listen-and-speak interaction. Achieving seamless conversational behavior, where speaking and listening states transition fluidly remains a key challenge. Existing 3D conversational avatar approaches rely on error-prone pseudo-3D labels that fail to capture fine-grained facial dynamics. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel two-stage framework MANGO, which leveraging pure image-level supervision by alternately training to mitigate the noise introduced by pseudo-3D labels, thereby achieving better alignment with real-world conversational behaviors. Specifically, in the first stage, a diffusion-based transformer with a dual-audio interaction module models natural 3D motion from multi-speaker audio. In the second stage, we use a fast 3D Gaussian Renderer to generate high-fidelity images and provide 2D-level photometric supervision for the 3D motions through alternate training. Additionally, we introduce MANGO-Dialog, a high-quality dataset with over 50 hours of aligned 2D-3D conversational data across 500+ identities. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves exceptional accuracy and realism in modeling two-person 3D dialogue motion, significantly advancing the fidelity and controllability of audio-driven talking heads.
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spellingShingle MANGO:Natural Multi-speaker 3D Talking Head Generation via 2D-Lifted Enhancement
Zhu, Lei
Lin, Lijian
Zhu, Ye
Wu, Jiahao
Hou, Xuehan
Li, Yu
Liu, Yunfei
Chen, Jie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current audio-driven 3D head generation methods mainly focus on single-speaker scenarios, lacking natural, bidirectional listen-and-speak interaction. Achieving seamless conversational behavior, where speaking and listening states transition fluidly remains a key challenge. Existing 3D conversational avatar approaches rely on error-prone pseudo-3D labels that fail to capture fine-grained facial dynamics. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel two-stage framework MANGO, which leveraging pure image-level supervision by alternately training to mitigate the noise introduced by pseudo-3D labels, thereby achieving better alignment with real-world conversational behaviors. Specifically, in the first stage, a diffusion-based transformer with a dual-audio interaction module models natural 3D motion from multi-speaker audio. In the second stage, we use a fast 3D Gaussian Renderer to generate high-fidelity images and provide 2D-level photometric supervision for the 3D motions through alternate training. Additionally, we introduce MANGO-Dialog, a high-quality dataset with over 50 hours of aligned 2D-3D conversational data across 500+ identities. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves exceptional accuracy and realism in modeling two-person 3D dialogue motion, significantly advancing the fidelity and controllability of audio-driven talking heads.
title MANGO:Natural Multi-speaker 3D Talking Head Generation via 2D-Lifted Enhancement
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01749