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REACT 2025: the Third Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge

arXiv 2505.17223 ↗First posted 22 May 2025cs.CVcited by 9

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Abstract (arXiv)

In dyadic interactions, a broad spectrum of human facial reactions might be appropriate for responding to each human speaker behaviour. Following the successful organisation of the REACT 2023 and REACT 2024 challenges, we are proposing the REACT 2025 challenge encouraging the development and benchmarking of Machine Learning (ML) models that can be used to generate multiple appropriate, diverse, realistic and synchronised human-style facial reactions expressed by human listeners in response to an input stimulus (i.e., audio-visual behaviours expressed by their corresponding speakers). As a key of the challenge, we provide challenge participants with the first natural and large-scale multi-modal MAFRG dataset (called MARS) recording 137 human-human dyadic interactions containing a total of 2856 interaction sessions covering five different topics. In addition, this paper also presents the challenge guidelines and the performance of our baselines on the two proposed sub-challenges: Offline MAFRG and Online MAFRG, respectively. The challenge baseline code is publicly available at https://github.com/reactmultimodalchallenge/baseline_react2025

Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 19 of its 45 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 22 May 2025.

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Citing papers per year: 2025: 1; 2026: 8.

9 papers.

  1. 2026DyaDiT: A Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Socially Favorable Dyadic Gesture Generationcited by 7
  2. 2025OmniResponse: Online Multimodal Conversational Response Generation in Dyadic Interactionscited by 5
  3. 2026MAUGen: A Unified Diffusion Approach for Multi-Identity Facial Expression and AU Label Generationcited by 0
  4. 2026ECHO: Towards Emotionally Appropriate and Contextually Aware Interactive Head Generationcited by 0
  5. 2026REACT 2026: The Fourth Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation Challenge: Personalised MAFRG and Appropriate EEG Reaction Predictioncited by 0
  6. 2026Conversational Human Audio-visual Talking Dialogue Generationcited by 0
  7. 2026Listen Before You Speak: Response Planning from Listener Facial Reactions for Conversational Speech Generationcited by 0
  8. 2026ResDiffFRG: Residual Diffusion for Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generationcited by 0
  9. 2026Beyond End-to-End Black Box Mapping: An Intentional Agent Framework for Cognitive-driven Facial Reaction Generationcited by 0