Kontrol: Hand Gesture Recognition for Music and Dance Interaction

Kameron Christopher, Jingyin He, Raakhi Kapur, and Ajay Kapur

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

• Year: 2013
• Location: Daejeon, Republic of Korea
• Pages: 267–270
• Keywords: Hand controller, computational ethnomusicology, dance interface, conducting interface, Wekinator, wearable sensors
• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178496 (Link to paper)
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Abstract:

This paper describes Kontrol, a new hand interface that extends the intuitivecontrol of electronic music to traditional instrumentalist and dancers. Thegoal of the authors has been to provide users with a device that is capable ofdetecting the highly intricate and expressive gestures of the master performer,in order for that information to be interpreted and used for control ofelectronic music. This paper discusses related devices, the architecture ofKontrol, it's potential as a gesture recognition device, and severalperformance applications.

Citation:

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{Christopher2013,
 abstract = {This paper describes Kontrol, a new hand interface that extends the intuitivecontrol of electronic music to traditional instrumentalist and dancers. Thegoal of the authors has been to provide users with a device that is capable ofdetecting the highly intricate and expressive gestures of the master performer,in order for that information to be interpreted and used for control ofelectronic music. This paper discusses related devices, the architecture ofKontrol, it's potential as a gesture recognition device, and severalperformance applications.},
 address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
 author = {Kameron Christopher and Jingyin He and Raakhi Kapur and Ajay Kapur},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178496},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 keywords = {Hand controller, computational ethnomusicology, dance interface, conducting interface, Wekinator, wearable sensors},
 month = {May},
 pages = {267--270},
 publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
 title = {Kontrol: Hand Gesture Recognition for Music and Dance Interaction},
 url = {http://www.nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_164.pdf},
 year = {2013}
}