Automatic Sign Dance Synthesis from Gesture-Based Sign Language

Naoya Iwamoto, Hubert P. H. Shum, Wakana Asahina and Shigeo Morishima
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG), 2019

Automatic Sign Dance Synthesis from Gesture-Based Sign Language

Abstract

Automatic dance synthesis has become more and more popular due to the increasing demand in computer games and animations. Existing research generates dance motions without much consideration for the context of the music. In reality, professional dancers make choreography according to the lyrics and music features. In this research, we focus on a particular genre of dance known as sign dance, which combines gesture-based sign language with full body dance motion. We propose a system to automatically generate sign dance from a piece of music and its corresponding sign gesture. The core of the system is a Sign Dance Model trained by multiple regression analysis to represent the correlations between sign dance and sign gesture/music, as well as a set of objective functions to evaluate the quality of the sign dance. Our system can be applied to music visualization, allowing people with hearing difficulties to understand and enjoy music.

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@inproceedings{iwamoto19automatic,
 author={Iwamoto, Naoya and Shum, Hubert P. H. and Asahina, Wakana and Morishima, Shigeo},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games},
 series={MIG '19},
 title={Automatic Sign Dance Synthesis from Gesture-Based Sign Language},
 year={2019},
 month={10},
 pages={18:1--18:9},
 numpages={9},
 doi={10.1145/3359566.3360069},
 isbn={978-1-4503-6994-7},
 publisher={ACM},
 Address={New York, NY, USA},
 location={Newcastle upon Tyne, UK},
}

RIS

TY  - CONF
AU  - Iwamoto, Naoya
AU  - Shum, Hubert P. H.
AU  - Asahina, Wakana
AU  - Morishima, Shigeo
T2  - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
TI  - Automatic Sign Dance Synthesis from Gesture-Based Sign Language
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 10 2019
SP  - 18:1
EP  - 18:9
DO  - 10.1145/3359566.3360069
SN  - 978-1-4503-6994-7
PB  - ACM
ER  - 

Plain Text

Naoya Iwamoto, Hubert P. H. Shum, Wakana Asahina and Shigeo Morishima, "Automatic Sign Dance Synthesis from Gesture-Based Sign Language," in MIG '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games, pp. 18:1-18:9, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, ACM, Oct 2019.

Supporting Grants

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

MEXT Top Global University Project Scholarship (Ref: ): £5,500, Co-Applicant (PI: Prof. Shigeo Morishima, Japanese Partner)
Received from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2015-2016
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