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Title:Sequence Recognition in Bharatnatyam dance
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Abstract:Bharatanatyam is the oldest Indian Classical Dance (ICD) which is learned and practiced across India and the world. Adavu is the core of this dance form. There exist 15 Adavus and 58 variations. Each Adavu variation comprises a well-defined set of motions and postures (called dance steps) that occur in a particular order. So, while learning Adavus, students not only learn the dance steps but also take care of its sequence of occurrences. This paper proposed a method to recognize these sequences. In this work, firstly, we recognize the involved Key Postures (KPs) and motions in the Adavu using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), respectively. In this, CNN achieves 99% and SVM's recognition accuracy becomes 84%. Next, we compare these KP and motion sequences with the ground truth to find the best match using the Edit Distance algorithm with an accuracy of 98%. The paper contributes hugely to the state-of-the-art in the form of digital heritage, dance tutoring system, and many more. The paper addresses three novelties; (a) Recognizing the sequences based on the KPs and motions rather than only KPs as reported in the earlier works. (b) The performance of the proposed work is measured by analyzing the prediction time per sequence. We also compare our proposed approach with the previous works that deal with the same problem statement. (c) It tests the scalability of the proposed approach by including all the Adavu variations, unlike the earlier literature, which uses only one/two variations.
Comments: Accepted at 7th International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP), 2022
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.16306 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2609.16306v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.16306
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Journal reference: Computer Vision and Image Processing. CVIP 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1778. Springer, Cham
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31407-0_30
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From: Rohit Dhaipule [view email] [v1] Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:12:51 UTC (1,440 KB)
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