Andrea Salgian

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, The College of New Jersey

Visual Analysis of Conducting Gestures

In collaboration with Dr. Teresa Nakra of the TCNJ Music Department, we are working to extract meaningful information from video recordings of conductors.

· Teresa M. Nakra, Andrea Salgian, Micheal Pfirrmann*, “Musical Analysis of Conducting Gestures Using Methods from Computer Vision”, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2009), Montreal, Canada, August 2009.

· Andrea Salgian, Micheal Pfirrmann, Teresa M. Nakra, “Follow the Beat? Understanding Conducting Gestures from Video”, 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, Springer, 2007.

· Teresa M. Nakra, Daniel Tilden*, Andrea Salgian, “Improving upon Musical Analyses of Conducting Gestures Using Computer Vision”, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2010), New York, NY, June 2010.