Advancing a Multimodal 3D Motions Library for DanceForms™ II

Leveraging its roots in dance and technology, Credo is building a multimodal motions platform for dance to enhance education, choreography and archival practices; the foundation being motion capture data. There are existing 3D motion capture libraries but they are either one of or many of the following: outdated, not comprehensive, poor quality, non-standard, poorly labelled or structured, etc., and are generally limited in supporting end user applications. Quality motion capture also requires specialized skills from capture to post-production/performance. The proposed platform will support motion capture, keyframe animation, video reference(s), labelling and notes . The challenge is bringing together the different types of data effectively, simply, and elegantly. The first version of the platform will have two components: (i) the analysis & collection of ballet/dance motions; and (ii) the playback app. This internship (II) focuses on the motions-related activities while supporting the app development work.

Faculty Supervisor:

Steve DiPaola

Student:

Partner:

Credo Interactive Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

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