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Browsing a dance video collection: dance analysis and interface design

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In this article we present a system for content-based browsing of a dance video database. A set of features describing dance is proposed, to quantify local gestures of the dancer as well as global stage usage. These features are used to compute similarities between recorded dance improvisations, which in turn serve to guide the visual exploration in the browsing methods presented here. The software integrating all these components is part of an interactive touch-screen installation, and is also accessible online in association with an artistic project. The different components of this browsing system are presented in this paper.

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  1. TCTS Lab., University of Mons, 31 Boulevard Dolez, 7000, Mons, Belgium

    Damien Tardieu, Julien Dubois & Stéphane Dupont

  2. MathRO Lab., University of Mons, 9 rue de Houdain, 7000, Mons, Belgium

    Xavier Siebert

  3. infoMus Lab—DIST, University of Genova, Viale Causa 13, 16145, Genova, Italy

    Barbara Mazzarino, Giovanna Varni & Alexandra Visentin

  4. SEMI Lab., University of Mons, 31 Boulevard Dolez, 7000, Mons, Belgium

    Ricardo Chessini

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Tardieu, D., Siebert, X., Mazzarino, B. et al. Browsing a dance video collection: dance analysis and interface design. J Multimodal User Interfaces 4, 37–46 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-010-0049-x

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