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GLARE system generates realistic listener reactions in conversations

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Researchers have developed GLARE, a new system for generating realistic listener reactions in dyadic conversations. Existing methods struggle with natural listener behavior, lacking appropriate reaction annotations and evaluation metrics. GLARE addresses this by introducing a new dataset with over 147 hours of paired speaker-listener videos and 64,557 reaction annotations across six categories. The system utilizes a flow-matching transformer conditioned on Qwen2-Audio prosody and a temporal reaction loss. A novel evaluation protocol measures reaction occurrence, temporal alignment, and visual quality, demonstrating GLARE's superiority over prior methods in both visual fidelity and behavioral realism. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more natural and engaging AI-powered conversational agents and virtual assistants.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new system and dataset for generating realistic listener reactions in conversations. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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GLARE system generates realistic listener reactions in conversations

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zikai Liao, Yumin Suh, Yi Ouyang, Yi-Lun Lee, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Zhaozheng Yin ·

    GLARE: Generating Listening Heads with Appropriate Reactions

    arXiv:2609.40317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While talking head generation has advanced rapidly, generating natural listener behavior in dyadic conversations, which know when to react, how to react, and with what type of response, remains underexplored. Existing dyadic dataset…

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