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NrityaGuru: A Dance Tutoring System for Bharatanatyam Using Kinect

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Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics (NCVPRIPG 2017)

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Abstract

Indian Classical Dance (ICD) is a living heritage of India. Traditionally Gurus (teachers) are the custodians of this heritage. They practice and pass on the legacy through their Shishyas (disciples), often in undocumented forms. The preservation of the heritage, thus, remains limited in time and scope. Emergence of digital multimedia technology has created the opportunity to preserve heritage by ensuring that it can be accessible over a long period of time. However, there have been only limited attempts to use effective technologies either in the pedagogy of learning dance or in the preservation of heritage of ICD. In this context, the paper presents NrityaGuru – a tutoring system for Bharatanatyam – a form of ICD. Using Kinect Xbox to capture dance videos in multi-modal form, we design a system that can help a learner dancer identify deviations in her dance postures and movements against the prerecorded benchmark performances of the tutor (Guru).

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Notes

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    Such a setup, however, may not work effectively for a performances with a lot of movement.

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    HKA: hip–knee–ankle, SEW: shoulder–elbow–wrist, LH_HC_RH: left hip–hip center–right hip.

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    Threshold of sudden change = 0.08, Threshold of fast motion = 1.5, Threshold of slow motion = 0.5.

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    Score of match from starting to current frame.

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    Achyuta Aich, Tanwi Mallick, Himadri B. G. S. Bhuyan, Partha Pratim Das & Arun Kumar Majumdar

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Aich, A., Mallick, T., Bhuyan, H.B.G.S., Das, P.P., Majumdar, A.K. (2018). NrityaGuru: A Dance Tutoring System for Bharatanatyam Using Kinect. In: Rameshan, R., Arora, C., Dutta Roy, S. (eds) Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics. NCVPRIPG 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 841. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0020-2_42

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