Digital Archiving and Analysis of Dance Motions

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Our long range research objectives are to investigate what is the significance of "dance" for human beings by analyzing human body motion during dance with information technologies. During this research period we developed information processing methods for extracting features from dance motions, as well as making comparisons, classification, retrieving and evaluation of dance motions. Also, we intend to develop a virtual dance collaboration system, and to make digital contents about traditional performing arts by using our motion data archives. We have obtained fruitful research results by the collaboration among researchers from different background ; information technology, dance researcher, and performers. We have several results during the research period, concerning motion segmentation, data retrieval, recognition of motions, analysis of Nihon-buyo motions, and Kansei information processing of dance motions.