Virtual Instrument Performances (VIP): A Comprehensive Review
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2024
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
Driven by recent advancements in Extended Reality (XR), the hype around the Metaverse, and real-time computer graphics, the transformation of the performing arts, particularly in digitizing and visualizing musical experiences, is an ever-evolving landscape. This transformation offers significant potential in promoting inclusivity, fostering creativity, and enabling live performances in diverse settings. However, despite its immense potential, the field of Virtual Instrument Performances (VIP) has remained relatively unexplored due to numerous challenges. These challenges arise from the complex and multi-modal nature of musical instrument performances, the need for high precision motion capture under occlusions including the intricate interactions between a musician's body and fingers with instruments, the precise synchronization and seamless integration of various sensory modalities, accommodating variations in musicians' playing styles, facial expressions, and addressing instrumentspecific nuances. This comprehensive survey delves into the intersection of technology, innovation, and artistic expression in the domain of virtual instrument performances. It explores musical performance multi-modal databases and investigates a wide range of data acquisition methods, encompassing diverse motion capture techniques, facial expression recording, and various approaches for capturing audio and MIDI data (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). The survey also explores Music Information Retrieval (MIR) tasks, with a particular emphasis on the Musical Performance Analysis (MPA) field, and offers an overview of various works in the realm of Musical Instrument Performance Synthesis (MIPS), encompassing recent advancements in generative models. The ultimate aim of this survey is to unveil the technological limitations, initiate a dialogue about the current challenges, and propose promising avenues for future research at the intersection of technology and the arts.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies → Animation; Motion capture; Motion processing; Machine learning
@article{10.1111:cgf.15065,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Virtual Instrument Performances (VIP): A Comprehensive Review}},
author = {Kyriakou, Theodoros and Alvarez de la Campa Crespo, Merce and Panayiotou, Andreas and Chrysanthou, Yiorgos and Charalambous, Panayiotis and Aristidou, Andreas},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.15065}
}