Human Motion Project
As well as the ancient static cultural heritages (like Great Buddha), ancient movements - Japanese folk dances - are another kind of our cultural treasure. But currently, so many Japanese folk dances are losing because of the lack of the successors. Our goal is resolving these problems - digitizing, archiving and analyzing the human movement by using the motion capture system and AI technologies. Furthermore, we try to re-create new dances by editing analyzed results.
@We are also studying how to impart archived movements to persons. The first is showing dancing human CG avatar on 3D virtual space and the second is to make a humanoid dance it. Due to the 3D-CG or the robot represents realistic movement, we can easily recognize and learn these cultural heritages.
Publications
1. Nakazawa Atsushi, Nakaoka Shinichiro, Kudo Shunsuke and Ikeuchi Katsushi, gImitating human dance motion through motion structure analysish, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002
2. Nakazawa A., Nakaoka S., Ikeuchi K., gAnalyzing and Synthesizing of Human Motion using Motion Capture Datah, The 19th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, 2001
3. etc.. -> Please see http://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/papers/index-j.html