Quantitative evaluation of motion of AWA ODORI dance by three dimensional sensor

Abstract

"AWA ODDRI" dance is one of the traditional dance festival of Tokushima Prefecture in Japan. Basic operation of "AWA ODORI" dance needs harmony of hands and legs, and the rhythm of duple time, but it is not possible that the beginners do these actions completely. We have already developed the method of quantifying evaluation of the skill of "AWA ODORI" dance. But the three dimensional movements are not able to be evaluated by image squences. In this paper, the authors proposed a method of quantifying evaluation of the skill of "AWA ODORI" dance by using the three dimensional data. In this method, the image sequence of dance scenes is obtained by a stereo camera with a simple of structure. The dynamics of motion is detected by three dimensional data calculated by the stereo camera. The input data and model data of excellent dancers are compared. In this paper, we describe the algorithm of quantifying evaluation of the skill using the stereo view and show some experimental results obtained by using a simple experimental system to verify effectiveness of the proposed method. © 2009 The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.