Dance-the-Music: an educational platform for the modeling, recognition and audiovisual monitoring of dance steps using spatiotemporal motion templates

作者：Maes Pieter Jan^*; Amelynck Denis; Leman Marc

来源：Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2012, 35.

DOI：10.1186/1687-6180-2012-35

• dance education
• spatiotemporal template
• dance modeling and recognition
• multimodal monitoring
• audiovisual dance performance database
• dance-based music querying and retrieval

In this article, a computational platform is presented, entitled %26quot;Dance-the-Music%26quot;, that can be used in a dance educational context to explore and learn the basics of dance steps. By introducing a method based on spatiotemporal motion templates, the platform facilitates to train basic step models from sequentially repeated dance figures performed by a dance teacher. Movements are captured with an optical motion capture system. The teachers%26apos; models can be visualized from a first-person perspective to instruct students how to perform the specific dance steps in the correct manner. Moreover, recognition algorithms-based on a template matching method-can determine the quality of a student%26apos;s performance in real time by means of multimodal monitoring techniques. The results of an evaluation study suggest that the Dance-the-Music is effective in helping dance students to master the basics of dance figures.

• 出版日期2012-2-16