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Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars judges watch out. Artificial intelligence is taking on its next challenge: dance talent appraisal.
It sounds unlikely, but Abu Zaher Faridee and colleagues at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, revealed their AI-assisted plan to help dance teachers at the HotMobile conference in Arizona, last month.
Dancers often get in each other’s way as they make their moves and normally significantly outnumber the teacher. This makes it hard for them to assess if everyone is dancing correctly. So the team put sensor on people learning an Indian dance called lasya. During the class,…
