Choreography Synthesis System by Inputting Body-part Motions using a Kinect

Abstract

In this study, we simply created three-dimensional animations of the human body at low cost to support dance creation. We developed a choreography synthesis system by inputting body-part motions using a Kinect. During the playback of the existing motion data, the motions of both arms inputted by Kinect were synthesized to the motion data in real time. Users combine steps from 40 hip-hop dance steps that were prepared in four counts in time series and input the arm motions to the created sequence. The inputted arm motions are blended to the corresponding parts of the hip-hop steps.