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ChoreoMaster

Kang Chen, Zhipeng Tan, Lei Jin, Song–Hai Zhang, Yuan-Chen Guo, Weidong Zhang, Shi‐Min Hu

2021ACM Transactions on Graphics70 citationsDOI

Abstract

Despite strong demand in the game and film industry, automatically synthesizing high-quality dance motions remains a challenging task. In this paper, we present ChoreoMaster, a production-ready music-driven dance motion synthesis system. Given a piece of music, ChoreoMaster can automatically generate a high-quality dance motion sequence to accompany the input music in terms of style, rhythm and structure. To achieve this goal, we introduce a novel choreography-oriented choreomusical embedding framework, which successfully constructs a unified choreomusical embedding space for both style and rhythm relationships between music and dance phrases. The learned choreomusical embedding is then incorporated into a novel choreography-oriented graph-based motion synthesis framework, which can robustly and efficiently generate high-quality dance motions following various choreographic rules. Moreover, as a production-ready system, ChoreoMaster is sufficiently controllable and comprehensive for users to produce desired results. Experimental results demonstrate that dance motions generated by ChoreoMaster are accepted by professional artists.

Topics & Concepts

DanceChoreographyEmbeddingComputer scienceRhythmStyle (visual arts)GraphMotion (physics)Quality (philosophy)Motion captureHuman–computer interactionMultimediaArtificial intelligenceArtVisual artsTheoretical computer scienceAestheticsEpistemologyPhilosophyHuman Motion and AnimationHuman Pose and Action RecognitionVideo Analysis and Summarization