Quantification of gracefulness from hand trajectory in classical dance motion

As robots in the welfare and service industries must come into contact with humans, they are required to make favorable impressions on human sensibilities. Our research focuses on the concept of "graceful motion," as defined by Hogarth. In order to ...

This research focuses on “gracefulness” and aim for the extraction and modeling of the graceful motion feature using classical dance. We consider that dancers decide their position and orientation based on their foot movement and decide their ...

Data-driven animation using a large human motion database enables the programing of various natural human motions. While the development of a motion capture system allows the acquisition of realistic human motion, segmenting the captured motion into a ...