Computer vision for the ballet industry: A comparative study of methods for pose recognition

Margaux Fourie, Dustin van der Haar

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Abstract

The presence of computer vision technology is continually expanding into multiple application domains. An industry and an art form that is particularly attractive for the application of computer vision algorithms is ballet. Due to the well-codified poses, along with the challenges that exist within the ballet domain, automation for the ballet environment is a relevant research problem. The paper proposes a model called BaReCo, which allows for ballet poses to be recognised using computer vision methods. The model contains multiple computer vision pipelines which allows for the comparison of approaches that have not been widely explored in the ballet domain. The results have shown that the top-performing pipelines achieved an accuracy rate of 99.375% and an Equal Error Rate (EER) of 0.119% respectively. The study additionally produced a ballet pose dataset, which serves as a contribution to the ballet and computer vision community. By combining suitable computer vision methods, the study demonstrates that successful recognition of ballet poses can be accomplished.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBusiness Information Systems - 23rd International Conference, BIS 2020, Proceedings
EditorsWitold Abramowicz, Gary Klein
PublisherSpringer
Pages118-129
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030533366
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2020 - Colorado Springs, United States
Duration: 8 Jun 202010 Jun 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume389 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)1865-1356

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityColorado Springs
Period8/06/2010/06/20

Keywords

  • Automation
  • Ballet industry
  • Computer vision
  • Dance
  • Pose recognition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Management Information Systems
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Business and International Management
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Information Systems and Management

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