Dancing to Music

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel framework for generating dance movements from music by analyzing dance into basic units and synthesizing them based on musical input, capturing style and beat.

Contribution

It presents a new synthesis-by-analysis approach that decomposes dance into basic units and learns to compose realistic dances aligned with music.

Findings

Synthesizes realistic and diverse dance movements

Ensures dance style consistency with music

Matches dance movements to musical beats

Abstract

Dancing to music is an instinctive move by humans. Learning to model the music-to-dance generation process is, however, a challenging problem. It requires significant efforts to measure the correlation between music and dance as one needs to simultaneously consider multiple aspects, such as style and beat of both music and dance. Additionally, dance is inherently multimodal and various following movements of a pose at any moment are equally likely. In this paper, we propose a synthesis-by-analysis learning framework to generate dance from music. In the analysis phase, we decompose a dance into a series of basic dance units, through which the model learns how to move. In the synthesis phase, the model learns how to compose a dance by organizing multiple basic dancing movements seamlessly according to the input music. Experimental qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that the proposed method can synthesize realistic, diverse,style-consistent, and beat-matching dances from music.