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Poster

Duolando: Follower GPT with Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Dance Accompaniment

Siyao Li · Tianpei Gu · Zhitao Yang · Zhengyu Lin · Ziwei Liu · Henghui Ding · Lei Yang · Chen Change Loy

Halle B #15
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Thu 9 May 7:30 a.m. PDT — 9:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

We introduce a novel task within the field of human motion generation, termed dance accompaniment, which necessitates the generation of responsive movements from a dance partner, the "follower", synchronized with the lead dancer’s movements and the underlying musical rhythm. Unlike existing solo or group dance generation tasks, a duet dance scenario entails a heightened degree of interaction between the two participants, requiring delicate coordination in both pose and position. To support this task, we first build a large-scale and diverse duet interactive dance dataset, DD100, by recording about 117 minutes of professional dancers’ performances. To address the challenges inherent in this task, we propose a GPT based model, Duolando, which autoregressively predicts the subsequent tokenized motion conditioned on the coordinated information of the music, the leader’s and the follower’s movements. To further enhance the GPT’s capabilities of generating stable results on unseen conditions (music and leader motions), we devise an off-policy reinforcement learning strategy that allows the model to explore viable trajectories from out-of-distribution samplings, guided by human-defined rewards. Based on the collected dataset and proposed method, we establish a benchmark with several carefully designed metrics.

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