Follow the Beat: Analyzing and Generating Conducting Gestures Using Computers

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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. This talk will present some research work on analyzing, generating, and recognizing conducting gestures, highlighting both methods and applications.


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  • Date: 20 Feb 2025
  • Time: 08:00 PM to 09:30 PM
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  • The College of New Jersey
  • 2000 Pennington Rd.
  • Ewing, New Jersey
  • United States 08618
  • Building: STEM Building
  • Room Number: STEM 102
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  • Starts 12 December 2024 04:43 PM
  • Ends 20 February 2025 12:00 AM
  • All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Andrea Salgian of The College of New Jersey

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Follow the Beat: Analyzing and Generating Conducting Gestures Using Computers

Biography:

Dr. Andrea Salgian is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at The College of New Jersey, where she teaches courses in introductory computer science, discrete structures, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. Her research focuses on computer vision and vision-based human-computer interaction. She has mentored various undergraduate student research projects in these areas that resulted in numerous publications. She holds a BS in Computer Science from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.




NOTE: NEW LOCATION. This meeting will be at The College of New Jersey – STEM Building, Room 102. The Princeton ACM meetings will return to the Princeton Computer Science Building in March.