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In Southeast Asia, Thai dance is a living traditional art form that belongs to the Intangible Cultural Heritage listed by UNESCO. This unique and stylized traditional dance portrays its history, culture, emotional expression, body movement etc. To archive the knowledge of the Traditional Thai dance, a dance notation known as “Labanotation” has been widely used to record and archive the unique essence of dance knowledge. In addition, many researchers have worked on reproducing and showcasing the dance movements. Currently, there is no such system that is available for us to demonstrate our Thai Dance Notation Score in 3D animation. Specifically, displaying the hand and finger movement is an issue. The aim of this paper is to present the process of implementing a tool to translate the dance notation into a 3D animation focusing on hand and finger movements of the traditional Thai dance.
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This study would never be successful without the support from Knowledge and Innovation Laboratory (KIRLY), College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Moreover, this work is partially funded by EU H2020 project-AniAge (691215).
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Tongpaeng, Y., Rattanakhum, M., Sureephong, P., Wicha, S. (2017). Implementing a Tool for Translating Dance Notation to Display in 3D Animation: A Case Study of Traditional Thai Dance. In: Benferhat, S., Tabia, K., Ali, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice. IEA/AIE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10351. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60045-1_3
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