3 accepted papers
Emotion understanding is essential for building socially intelligent agents. Although recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance on this task, two key challenges remain: (i) spurious associations between emotions and irrelevant audiovisual cues and (ii) hallucinati…
Generating naturalistic and nuanced listener motions for extended interactions remains an open problem. Existing methods often rely on low-dimensional motion codes for facial behavior generation followed by photorealistic rendering, limiting both visual fidelity and expressive richness. To address t…
"Human-human communication is like a delicate dance where listeners and speakers concurrently interact to maintain conversational dynamics. Hence, an effective model for generating listener nonverbal behaviors requires understanding the dyadic context and interaction. In this paper, we present an ef…