Talking Together: Synthesizing Co-Located 3D Conversations from Audio
We tackle the challenging task of generating complete 3D facial animations for two interacting, co-located participants from a mixed audio stream. While existing methods often produce disembodied "talking heads" akin to a video conference call, our work is the first to explicitly model the dynamic 3D spatial relationship -- including relative position, orientation, and mutual gaze -- that is crucial for realistic in-person dialogues. Our system synthesizes the full performance of both individuals, including precise lip-sync, and uniquely allows their relative head poses to be controlled via textual descriptions. To achieve this, we propose a dual-stream architecture where each stream is responsible for one participant's output. We employ speaker's role embeddings and inter-speaker cross-attention mechanisms designed to disentangle the mixed audio and model the interaction. Furthermore, we introduce a novel eye gaze loss to promote natural, mutual eye contact. To power our data-hungry approach, we introduce a novel pipeline to curate a large-scale conversational dataset consisting of over 2 million dyadic pairs from in-the-wild videos. Our method generates fluid, controllable, and spatially aware dyadic animations suitable for immersive applications in VR and telepresence, significantly outperforming existing baselines in perceived realism and interaction coherence.
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