Dyadic Interaction Modeling
for Social Behavior Generation

Overview

We propose Dyadic Interaction Modeling, a pre-training strategy that jointly models speakers’ and listeners’ motions and learns representations that capture the dyadic context. We then utilize the pre-trained weights and feed multimodal inputs from the speaker into DIM-Listener. DIM-Listener is capable of generating photorealistic videos for the listener's motion.

Pretraining: Dyadic Interaction Modeling

Dyadic Interaction Modeling learns a unified speaker-listener representation from dyadic interactions. The framework takes both the ground-truth speaker motion \(s\) and the listener motion \(l\) as input. VQ-Encoders of speaker and listener then encode the motions to discrete units (discrete latent codes) \(z^{(s)}\) and \(z^{(l)}\). The masked speaker's and listener's motions are further encoded and concatenated so that a unified representation is learned with contrastive loss. Then, the split unified representation and speaker audio feature \(a\) are decoded into discrete unit predictions \(z'^{(s)}\) and \(z'^{(l)}\) supervised by cross-entropy loss. Finally, the generated speaker motions \(s'\) and listener motions \(l'\) are decoded from these discrete unit predictions to optimize the reconstruction loss.

DIM-Listener

For fine-tuning the model on listener motion generation, speaker input is not masked, and the listener input is entirely masked. We train the framework with the same cross-entropy loss and reconstruction loss from Dyadic Interaction Modeling while keeping the weights of listener VQ-Encoder fixed.

DIM-Speaker

Since we introduce a dyadic framework capturing contextualized interactions among listeners and speakers, our approach can also animate speaker motion from the speaker's speech input. For Speech-Driven Speaker Generation, we fine-tune the pre-trained weights of the joint decoder and speaker VQ-Decoder from Dyadic Interaction Modeling. The generated speaker's motion from DIM-Speaker is optimized by the same cross-entropy and reconstruction loss as DIM-Listener.

Photorealistic Visualizations on ViCo

Quantitative Compare

ViCo

Quantitative comparisons of DIM with recent SOTA methods RLHG, L2L and ELP. ↓ indicates that the lower the better. Methods with * didn’t release any code, and we re-implement it from scratch on our own. † represents that the corresponding method has been pre-trained on the CANDOR dataset.

LM_Listener

Quantitative comparisons of DIM with recent SOTA methods RLHG, L2L and ELP. ↓ indicates that the lower the better. Methods with * didn’t release any code, and we re-implement it from scratch on our own. † represents that the corresponding method has been pre-trained on the CANDOR dataset.