Beat Synchronous Dance Animation

Beat Synchronous Dance Animation based on Analysis of Periodic Motion given the music Tempo.

This code is a simple implementation of Beat Synchronous Dance Animation based on Periodic Motion and Music Tempo Analysis

based on the paper [1].

The goal of the proposed method [1] is to generate beat synchronous dance animation (bvh format) based on the analysis of both visual and audio data.

We propose and employ a new method for the temporal segmentation of such motion

data into the periods of dance. Next, we use a beats of audio. Given an

input music with its beats that is of the same genre as the one corresponding to the

visually observed dance, we automatically produce a beat synchronous

dance animation of a virtual character.

You can find more details in www.csd.uoc.gr/~cpanag and http://users.ics.forth.gr/~argyros/

It uses the toolboxes

MOCAP0p136 from http://motor-invariant-control.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/BVH/MOCAP0p136/

and NDLUTIL0p162 from https://github.com/XinweiJiang/SLLGPLVM/tree/master/NDLUTIL0p162

We will appreciate if you cite our papers [1-2] in your work:

[1] C. Panagiotakis, Andre Holzapfel, Damien Michel, and Antonis Argyros, Beat Synchronous Dance Animation based on Periodic Motion and Music Tempo Analysis, International Symposium on Visual Computing, 2013.

[2] C. Panagiotakis, Damien Michel, and Antonis Argyros, Temporal segmentation and seamless stitching of motion patterns for synthesizing novel animations of periodic dances, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2014.