Title
Music-to-Dance Generation with Optimal Transport.
Abstract
Dance choreography for a piece of music is a challenging task, having to be creative in presenting distinctive stylistic dance elements while taking into account the musical theme and rhythm. It has been tackled by different approaches such as similarity retrieval, sequence-to-sequence modeling and generative adversarial networks, but their generated dance sequences are often short of motion realism, diversity and music consistency. In this paper, we propose a Music-to-Dance with Optimal Transport Network (MDOT-Net) for learning to generate 3D dance choreographs from music. We introduce an optimal transport distance for evaluating the authenticity of the generated dance distribution and a Gromov-Wasserstein distance to measure the correspondence between the dance distribution and the input music. This gives a well defined and non-divergent training objective that mitigates the limitation of standard GAN training which is frequently plagued with instability and divergent generator loss issues. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our MDOT-Net can synthesize realistic and diverse dances which achieve an organic unity with the input music, reflecting the shared intentionality and matching the rhythmic articulation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.24963/ijcai.2022/691
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Methods and resources: Machine learning, deep learning, neural models, reinforcement learning,Theory and philosophy of arts and creativity in AI systems: Autonomous creative or artistic AI,Application domains: Performances, dance,Application domains: Music
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuang Wu100.34
Shijian Lu200.34
Cheng Li327939.13