Dynamic body feedback is used in dance movement therapy (DMT), with the aim to facilitate
emotional expression and a change of emotional state through movement and dance for …

This paper presents current approaches and open issues regarding the modeling of users'
physical activity when learning motor skills, such as those required to dance, play a musical …

This paper proposes a sliding window approach, whose length and time shift are
dynamically adaptable in order to improve model confidence, speed and segmentation …

Recently, human motion-centric videos have been attracting attention in the field of
computer vision. Observing and detecting human motion in intelligent surveillance camera …

This work targets Dance Style Recognition in videos as an application of Human Action
Recognition. We propose a novel Spatio-Temporal Laban Feature descriptor (STLF) for …

Understanding human behavior through nonverbal-based features, is interesting in several
applications such as surveillance, ambient assisted living and human-robot interaction. In …

Human body motion analysis is an initial procedure for understanding and perceiving
human activities. A multilevel approach is proposed here for automatic human activity and …

This paper presents an approach for modeling human interactions based on existent
relationship characteristics between body parts motions and environmental parameters …

Human movement classification and analysis are important in the research of health
sciences and the arts. Laban movement analysis is an effective method to annotate human …

The sixteen papers in this special section focus on human pose recovery and behavior
analysis (HuPBA). This is one of the most challenging topics in computer vision, pattern …