MimicTalker: A Multimodal Interactive and Memory-Enhanced Framework for Real-Time Dyadic 3D Head Generation

Yinuo Wang, Yanbo Fan, Xuan Wang, Boyao Zhou, Yu Guo, Yujun Shen, Fei Wang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 32399-32409

Dyadic interactive head generation aims to synthesize realistic head motions that respond both verbally and non-verbally to an interlocutor in real-time conversation. The existing works often focus on offline scenarios, and struggle with a shallow understanding of the multimodal conversational context while also lacking long-term coherence. To address these limitations, we propose MimicTalker, a novel method for producing real-time, contextually-aware, and long-term consistent interactive head motions. To this end, we propose a Multimodal Interactive Context Extraction (MICE) module to capture both instantaneous and long-term multimodal interactive information from the interlocutor. To enhance in-depth conversational understanding, we propose a Semantic-enhanced Dynamic Interaction (SDI) module to integrate the intentions and topics of the conversation, which are automatically extracted through an LLM-based analyzer. Further, we propose a semantic-guided Motion Style Memory (MSM) mechanism, enabling the long-term motion consistency throughout the conversation. We conduct experiments on both short conversational segments (25 seconds) and extended dialogues (6 minutes), and the comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing approaches.