SCHEDAR: Safeguarding the Cultural HEritage of Dance through Augmented Reality

舞蹈是任何文化不可或缺的一部分。舞蹈通过其编排和服装赋予了这种文化丰富性和独特性。在过去十年中，人们利用技术发展来记录、整理、补救、提供获取、保存和保护有形文化遗产(CH)。教科文组织在2003年《保护非物质文化遗产公约》(ICH)中指出，非物质文化遗产是人类文化多样性的主要源泉，保护非物质文化遗产是持续创造的保证。然而，全球化和人口大规模流动等现代因素已经削弱了许多社区独特的文化，事实上，现在存在着许多类型的非物质文化遗产可能永远消失的非常真实的风险。最近的计算进步使人类运动的准确3D数字化成为可能。这种系统提供了一种新的手段来捕获、保存并随后重新创造非物质文化遗产，这远远超出了传统的书面或成像方法。然而，3D运动数据的创建和维护成本很高，包含的语义信息难以提取和表达，而且当前用于搜索和可视化这些数据的软件工具对大多数最终用户来说过于复杂。SCHEDAR将为归档、重用和重新利用以及最终传播ICH运动数据这三个关键挑战提供新的解决方案。此外，我们将制定一套全面的新指导方针、框架和软件工具，以利用现有的非物质文化遗产运动数据库。数据收集将从整体上进行，包括与表演、表演者、舞蹈种类、隐藏/不为人知的故事等相关的数据。创新地使用最先进的多感官增强现实技术将能够与舞蹈直接互动，提供传统舞蹈的新体验和培训，这是确保这一丰富的文化资产为子孙后代保留的关键。

Dance is an integral part of any culture. Through its choreography and costumes dance imparts richness and uniqueness to that culture. Over the last decade, technological developments have been exploited to record, curate, remediate, provide access, preserve and protect tangible cultural heritage (CH). However, intangible assets, such as dance, has largely been excluded from this previous work.UNESCO states in its 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) that ICH is a mainspring of humanity's cultural diversity and its maintenance is a guarantee for continuing creativity. However, modern factors such as globalization and the massive movement of people have diminished the unique culture of many communities, and indeed there is a now a very real risk that many types of ICH may disappear forever.Recent computing advances have enabled the accurate 3D digitization of human motion. Such systems provide a new means for capturing, preserving and subsequently re-creating ICH which goes far beyond traditional written or imaging approaches. However, 3D motion data is expensive to create and maintain, encompassed semantic information is difficult to extract and formulate, and current software tools to search and visualize this data are too complex for most end-users.SCHEDAR will provide novel solutions to the three key challenges of archiving, re-using and re-purposing, and ultimately disseminating ICH motion data. In addition, we will devise a comprehensive set of new guidelines, a framework and software tools for leveraging existing ICH motion databases. Data acquisition will be undertaken holistically; encompassing data related to the performance, the performer, the kind of the dance, the hidden/untold story, etc.Innovative use of state-of-the-art multisensory Augmented Reality technology will enable direct interaction with the dance, providing new experiences and training in traditional dance which is key to ensure this rich culture asset is preserved for future generations.