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The purpose of this research is a quantitative analysis of movement patterns of dance, which cannot be analyzed with a motion capture system alone, using simultaneous measurement of body motion and biophysical information. In this research, two kinds of same leg movement are captured by simultaneous measurement; one is a leg movement with given strength, the other is a leg movement without strength on condition of basic experiment using optical motion capture and electromyography (EMG) equipment in order to quantitatively analyze characteristics of leg movement. Also, we measured the motion of the traditional Japanese dance using the constructed system. We can visualize leg movement of Japanese dance by displaying a 3D CG character animation with motion data and EMG data. In addition, we expect that our research will help dancers and researchers on dance through giving new information on dance movement which cannot be analyzed with only motion capture.
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This work was partly supported by the “21st Century COE program”, the “Open Research Center program” and the “Grantin-in-Aid for Scientific Research” of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (No. (B)16300035).
Woong Choi was born in 1973. He received his Ph.D. degree in Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2005. He is currently a post-doc of the Center for Promotion of the COE, University of Ritsumeikan.
His current research interests include motion capture, EMG, virtual reality, and human interface.
Tadao Isaka was born in 1962. He received his Ph.D. degree from Ritsumeikan University in 1999. He is currently a professor in Sports Biomechanics, Department of Robotics, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University.
His current research interests include sports biomechanics.
Mamiko Sakata was born in 1974. She graduated from Department of Human Performance and Expression, Faculty of Human Development, Kobe University in 1997. She completed the doctoral program of Graduate School of Cultural Studies and Human Sciences, Kobe University in 2002 and received her Ph.D. degree from Kobe University. She is currently a lecturer of Doshisha University and a visiting researcher of Center of Promotion of the COE, Ritsumeikan University.
Her current research interests include body-mediated information and dance movement.
Seiya Tsuruta is currently a Ph.D. candidate of Graduate School of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University.
His current research interests include virtual reality, motion capture, and character animation.
Kozaburo Hachimura was born in 1948. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Kyoto University in 1971, 1973 and 1979, respectively. He was a research assistant at National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka during 1978–1983, and an associate professor at Kyoto University during 1984–1994. He is currently a professor of computer science at Ritsumeikan University. He concurrently holds the post of the vice director at Art Research Center of Ritsumeikan University.
His research interests include image databases, graphics system for human body movement and KANSEI image processing.
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Choi, W., Isaka, T., Sakata, M. et al. Quantification of dance movement by simultaneous measurement of body motion and biophysical information. Int J Automat Comput 4, 1–7 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-007-0001-z
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