Intangible cultural heritage and new technologies: challenges and opportunities for cultural preservation and development

M Alivizatou-Barakou, A Kitsikidis… - Mixed reality and …, 2017 - Springer
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a relatively recent term coined to represent living cultural
expressions and practices, which are recognised by communities as distinct aspects of …

[HTML][HTML] Digitization and visualization of folk dances in cultural heritage: A review

I Kico, N Grammalidis, Y Christidis, F Liarokapis - Inventions, 2018 - mdpi.com
According to UNESCO, cultural heritage does not only include monuments and collections
of objects, but also contains traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and …

Digital dance ethnography: Organizing large dance collections

A Aristidou, A Shamir, Y Chrysanthou - Journal on Computing and …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Folk dances often reflect the socio-cultural influences prevailing in different periods and
nations; each dance produces a meaning, a story with the help of music, costumes and …

3D human gait reconstruction and monitoring using body-worn inertial sensors and kinematic modeling

A Ahmadi, F Destelle, L Unzueta… - IEEE Sensors …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel low-cost computationally efficient method to accurately
assess human gait by monitoring the 3D trajectory of the lower limb, both left and right legs …

Danceconv: Dance motion generation with convolutional networks

K Kritsis, A Gkiokas, A Pikrakis, V Katsouros - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatically synthesizing dance motion sequences is an increasingly popular research
task in the broader field of human motion analysis. Recent approaches have mostly used …

Enriching the fan experience in a smart stadium using internet of things technologies

S Panchanathan, S Chakraborty… - … Journal of Semantic …, 2017 - World Scientific
Rapid urbanization has brought about an influx of people to cities, tipping the scale between
urban and rural living. Population predictions estimate that 64% of the global population will …

Graph-based analysis of physical exercise actions

O Çeliktutan, CB Akgul, C Wolf, B Sankur - Proceedings of the 1st ACM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we develop a graph-based method to align two dynamic skeleton sequences,
and apply it to both action recognition tasks as well as to the objective quantification of the …

Biomechanics of the golf swing using OpenSim

S Mahadas, K Mahadas, GK Hung - Computers in biology and medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
A study was conducted to investigate the underlying mechanisms involved in the dynamics
of body motions during the golf swing. A series of model simulation programs were …

A multi-modal dance corpus for research into interaction between humans in virtual environments

S Essid, X Lin, M Gowing, G Kordelas, A Aksay… - Journal on Multimodal …, 2013 - Springer
We present a new, freely available, multimodal corpus for research into, amongst other
areas, real-time realistic interaction between humans in online virtual environments. The …

Multi-sensor technology and fuzzy logic for dancer's motion analysis and performance evaluation within a 3D virtual environment

A Kitsikidis, K Dimitropoulos, E Yilmaz, S Douka… - Universal Access in …, 2014 - Springer
In this paper, we describe a novel methodology for dance learning and evaluation using
multi-sensor and 3D gaming technology. The learners are captured during dancing, while …