Follow the Beat: Analyzing and Generating Conducting Gestures Using Computers

PRINCETON ACM / IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTERS
FEBRUARY, 2025 JOINT MEETING

"Follow the Beat: Analyzing and Generating Conducting Gestures Using Computers" - Andrea Salgian, The College of New Jersey

---> NEW LOCATION: This meeting will be held at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) - STEM Building Room 102

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.

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.

Date: Thursday February 20, 2025, 8:00 PM EST
(Note: Refreshments and networking start early - 7:30 PM.)

Place: HYBRID MEETING (both in-person and online)
In Person:
NEW LOCATION: This meeting will be held at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) - STEM Building Room 102

Enter TCNJ from NJ 31, turn left, it is the fourth building on the right (park in the Forcina Garage – Lots 17 and 18)

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Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/89397149937?pwd=1j2n3uMq6sXDJ71ELx6KiPoamL4aiM.1
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On-line meeting notice: https://PrincetonACM.acm.org/meetings/mtg2502.pdf

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