Emotion Recognition in Contemporary Dance Performances Using Laban Movement Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21154v1
• Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:17:27 GMT
• Title: Emotion Recognition in Contemporary Dance Performances Using Laban Movement Analysis
• Authors: Muhammad Turab, Philippe Colantoni, Damien Muselet, Alain Tremeau,
• Abstract summary: Our approach extracts expressive characteristics from 3D keypoints data of professional dancers performing contemporary dance under various emotional states.<n>We train multiple classifiers, including Random Forests and Support Vector Machines.<n>Overall, our study improves emotion recognition in contemporary dance and offers promising applications in performance analysis, dance training, and human--computer interaction, with a highest accuracy of 96.85%.
• Score: 0.562479170374811
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a novel framework for emotion recognition in contemporary dance by improving existing Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) feature descriptors and introducing robust, novel descriptors that capture both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the movement. Our approach extracts expressive characteristics from 3D keypoints data of professional dancers performing contemporary dance under various emotional states, and trains multiple classifiers, including Random Forests and Support Vector Machines. Additionally, we provide in-depth explanation of features and their impact on model predictions using explainable machine learning methods. Overall, our study improves emotion recognition in contemporary dance and offers promising applications in performance analysis, dance training, and human--computer interaction, with a highest accuracy of 96.85\%.

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