A parameterizable spatiotemporal representation of popular dance styles for humanoid dancing characters
A parameterizable spatiotemporal representation of popular dance styles for humanoid dancing characters
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2012
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Marc Leman
João Lobato Oliveira
Luiz Naveda
Fabien Gouyon
Luís Paulo Reis
Paulo Sousa
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In this article, we formalize a model for the analysis and representation of popular dance styles of repetitive gestures by specifying the parameters and validation procedures necessary to describe the spatiotemporal elements of the dance movement in relation to its music temporal structure (musical meter). Our representation model is able to precisely describe the structure of dance gestures according to the structure of musical meter, at different temporal resolutions, and is flexible enough to convey the variability of the spatiotemporal relation between music structure and movement in space. It results in a compact and discrete mid-level representation of the dance that can be further applied to algorithms for the generation of movements in different humanoid dancing characters.