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Dr. Salgian to Give Talk “Follow the Beat: Analyzing and Generating Conducting Gestures Using Computers”

Dr. Andrea Salgian will give a guest talk at the February 2025 joint meeting of the Princeton ACM & IEEE-CS chapters on Thursday, February 20 in STEM 102.  The event is open to the public and light refreshments and networking will begin at 7:30 PM, with the formal talk beginning at 8:00 PM.

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.