Dr. Salgian’s talk is titled “Follow the Beat: Analyzing and Generating Confucting Gestures Using Computers”. An abstract of her talk can be found below.
Abstract: Musical conducting is a unique blend of musical performance and communication. Conductors are the only musicians who can freely move their hands to create sound, without having their gestures constrained by a rigid instrument, as their instrument is the entire orchestra. The act of conducting can also be seen as communication, as the conductor is using gestures to convey information to the other musicians.
While gesture recognition is a widely researched topic in human-computer interaction, conducting hasn’t been studied too extensively. In this talk I will present some of my work on analyzing, generating, and recognizing
conducting gestures, highlighting both methods and applications.