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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

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

Kameron Christopher, Jingyin He, Raakhi Kapur, and Ajay Kapur. 2013. Kontrol: Hand Gesture Recognition for Music and Dance Interaction. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1178496 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry


@inproceedings{nime2013_Christopher,
author = {Kameron Christopher and Jingyin He and Raakhi Kapur and Ajay Kapur},
title = {Kontrol: Hand Gesture Recognition for Music and Dance Interaction},
pages = {267--270},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
year = {2013},
month = {May},
publisher = {Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST},
address = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
issn = {2220-4806},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1178496},
url = {https://nime.org/proceedings/2013/nime2013_164.pdf},
keywords = {Hand controller, computational ethnomusicology, dance interface, conducting interface, Wekinator, wearable sensors},
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.}
}