Laban Movement Analysis Using Kinect

Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), developed in the dance community over the past seventy years, is an effective method for observing, describing, notating, and interpreting human movement to enhance communication and expression in everyday and professional life. Many applications that use motion capture data might be significantly leveraged if the Laban qualities will be recognized automatically. This paper presents an automated recognition method of Laban qualities from motion capture skeletal recordings and it is demonstrated on the output of Microsoft’s Kinect V2 sensor.

Authors:

• Ran Bernstein
• Tal Shafir
• Rachelle Tsachor
• Karen Studd
• Assaf Schuster

Keywords:

• Laban Movement Analysis
• Kinect
• Machine Learning.

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