ELGAR: Expressive Cello Performance Motion Generation for Audio Rendition

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Main Authors: Qiu, Zhiping, Jin, Yitong, Wang, Yuan, Shi, Yi, Wang, Chongwu, Tan, Chao, Li, Xiaobing, Yu, Feng, Yu, Tao, Dai, Qionghai
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author Qiu, Zhiping
Jin, Yitong
Wang, Yuan
Shi, Yi
Wang, Chongwu
Tan, Chao
Li, Xiaobing
Yu, Feng
Yu, Tao
Dai, Qionghai
author_facet Qiu, Zhiping
Jin, Yitong
Wang, Yuan
Shi, Yi
Wang, Chongwu
Tan, Chao
Li, Xiaobing
Yu, Feng
Yu, Tao
Dai, Qionghai
contents The art of instrument performance stands as a vivid manifestation of human creativity and emotion. Nonetheless, generating instrument performance motions is a highly challenging task, as it requires not only capturing intricate movements but also reconstructing the complex dynamics of the performer-instrument interaction. While existing works primarily focus on modeling partial body motions, we propose Expressive ceLlo performance motion Generation for Audio Rendition (ELGAR), a state-of-the-art diffusion-based framework for whole-body fine-grained instrument performance motion generation solely from audio. To emphasize the interactive nature of the instrument performance, we introduce Hand Interactive Contact Loss (HICL) and Bow Interactive Contact Loss (BICL), which effectively guarantee the authenticity of the interplay. Moreover, to better evaluate whether the generated motions align with the semantic context of the music audio, we design novel metrics specifically for string instrument performance motion generation, including finger-contact distance, bow-string distance, and bowing score. Extensive evaluations and ablation studies are conducted to validate the efficacy of the proposed methods. In addition, we put forward a motion generation dataset SPD-GEN, collated and normalized from the MoCap dataset SPD. As demonstrated, ELGAR has shown great potential in generating instrument performance motions with complicated and fast interactions, which will promote further development in areas such as animation, music education, interactive art creation, etc.
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spellingShingle ELGAR: Expressive Cello Performance Motion Generation for Audio Rendition
Qiu, Zhiping
Jin, Yitong
Wang, Yuan
Shi, Yi
Wang, Chongwu
Tan, Chao
Li, Xiaobing
Yu, Feng
Yu, Tao
Dai, Qionghai
Graphics
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
The art of instrument performance stands as a vivid manifestation of human creativity and emotion. Nonetheless, generating instrument performance motions is a highly challenging task, as it requires not only capturing intricate movements but also reconstructing the complex dynamics of the performer-instrument interaction. While existing works primarily focus on modeling partial body motions, we propose Expressive ceLlo performance motion Generation for Audio Rendition (ELGAR), a state-of-the-art diffusion-based framework for whole-body fine-grained instrument performance motion generation solely from audio. To emphasize the interactive nature of the instrument performance, we introduce Hand Interactive Contact Loss (HICL) and Bow Interactive Contact Loss (BICL), which effectively guarantee the authenticity of the interplay. Moreover, to better evaluate whether the generated motions align with the semantic context of the music audio, we design novel metrics specifically for string instrument performance motion generation, including finger-contact distance, bow-string distance, and bowing score. Extensive evaluations and ablation studies are conducted to validate the efficacy of the proposed methods. In addition, we put forward a motion generation dataset SPD-GEN, collated and normalized from the MoCap dataset SPD. As demonstrated, ELGAR has shown great potential in generating instrument performance motions with complicated and fast interactions, which will promote further development in areas such as animation, music education, interactive art creation, etc.
title ELGAR: Expressive Cello Performance Motion Generation for Audio Rendition
topic Graphics
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04203