Indian Dance Form Recognition from Videos

Ankita Bisht, Riya Bora, Goutam Saini, Pushkar Shukla, B. Raman

2017 · 17 citations · 12 references

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TL;DR

Classical dance forms are integral to Indian culture and heritage, and preserving and understanding them is a key issue for digital heritage preservation. The study proposes a novel framework to classify Indian classical dance forms from videos. The framework extracts representations using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network and optical flow, trains them with a multi‑class linear SVM, and evaluates performance on a newly introduced dataset. The framework achieved 75.83 % accuracy on 211 test videos.

Abstract

Classical dance forms are an integral part of the Indian culture and heritage. Therefore, preserving and comprehending these dance forms is a relevant problem in context with the digital preservation of the Indian Heritage. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to classify Indian classical dance forms from videos. The representations are then extracted through Deep Convolution Neural Network(DCNN) and Optical Flow. Moreover these representations are trained on a multi-class linear support vector machine(SVM). Furthermore, a novel dataset is introduced to evaluate the performance of the proposed framework. The framework is able to achieve the accuracy of 75.83 % when tested on 211 videos.

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