An interactive and concerted dance system - emotion extraction and support for emotional concert

Author

Harada, Ikuo ; Tadenuma, Makoto ; Nakai, Takahiro ; Suzuki, Ryotaro ; Hikawa, Naoto ; Makino, Mao ; Inoue, Masayuki

Author_Institution

ATR Media Integration & Commun. Res. Labs., Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

303

Lastpage

308

Abstract

A human activity that expresses one´s emotion is significantly important in non-verbal communications. Human body motion such as a dance performance is one of the important factors in expressing such an emotion. An effective method to extract emotional information in real time from dance images is described. A novel heuristic function is also proposed to evaluate the degree of harmony between two dancers. As a typical application, a dance system called MIDAS that interactively combines dancers´ images with video, sound, and CG characters is introduced. MIDAS can visualize how well dancers are in harmony with each other and encourage their expressions

Keywords

data visualisation; humanities; interactive systems; multimedia systems; real-time systems; CG characters; MIDAS; dance images; dance performance; dance system; dancer harmony; emotion extraction; emotional concert; emotional harmony; emotional information; heuristic function; human activity; human body motion; interactive concerted dance system; non-verbal communications; real time; Art; Character generation; Communications technology; Data mining; Electronic mail; Humans; Microwave integrated circuits; Systems engineering and theory; Visualization; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation, 2001. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1195-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2001.942074

Filename

942074