I think this is a better outfit. I can now move on to a new routine.
Category: Dance
practice, influences, and moves previews; Disclaimer: Choice of choreography doesn’t reflect personal choice of music.
Where Have You Been Extreme, 6s Preview
The weather is back to freezing again, so I am taking up where I left at the end of June. I’ve always avoided this song, but for some reason I was intuitively called to complete it this summer. This is the June version and I don’t understand why I picked such a corporate outfit.. This is a beach-themed choreo. I’ll see if I can fix this.
Black Widow, Iggy Azalea, Just Dance, 45s Preview
I also made a version in high heels.
Numb, Linking Park, Just Dance 54s Preview
This routine is good as a warmup.
Feel Special Extreme 13s Preview
The moves are not hard per se, but the tempo is very fast, the counts are ambiguous, and the lyrics are in Korean. Since the coach in high heels, I made two other versions with high heels.
Temperature Just Dance Extreme 24s Preview
this one was a little intense during filming
And maybe it goes on and on, and on and on…
Scream and Shout, Just Dance Extreme, 15s preview. Shot at 4K, 24fps and intentionally downgraded to 1080p.
I started working on a new editing software with strong AI features, but I’m strictly cutting for now, not using effects yet. I’ve wanted to use this app for a long time, but couldn’t for legal reasons. Now that they are subject to at least one class action and likely a ban, things are bit more nuanced, not necessarily safe but tolerable.
K-Pop Dance Pose Detection AI Model
Speaking of ideas that want to be developed, I’m still waiting for a viable pose detection model to be made. It would be nice to take any dance practice video and ask AI to break down the moves per dancer and make a tutorial, like a dance prof would do. Not like I haven’t asked. At this point any rudimentary model can give you accurate legal information from any jurisdiction and any period of time. Constitution, piece of cake. Criminal law, litigation, novel legal questions, all covered. When it comes to dance however, seems like the hardest thing to do.
Since the paper on Comparative K-Pop Choreography Analysis Through Deep Learning Pose Estimation across a Large Video Corpus came out in 2021 in the Digital Humanities Quarterly, I haven’t seen any advancement.
Since then, the video corpus of dance practice has considerably expanded thanks to humans and it should be so much easier for AI, right? Right?!?
Crickets.
the number of humans you will need to annotate frames to make datasets for the model to run would exceed the number of humans on this planet.
There are AI-based apps from 3 years ago like SyncTrainer that allow you to upload your performance to compare of a K-pop chorus with the original dance practice to tell you approximately how well you did, but this is still on the level where humans get to do all the work. To use the app, I need to first detect all the poses myself, learn them, perform them, film them, upload them, to compare the final result. Quite a nuance. I want an app that can be a dance instructor.
here is where pose estimation is in 2025, (https://viso.ai/deep-learning/pose-estimation-ultimate-overview/ ), so pretty much nowhere. Anyone who tells you that AI can replace humans is misinformed. I personally ain’t gonna lift a finger to change that.
AI’s defense regarding the main challenges of pose detection
Detecting the human pose is a challenging task because the body’s appearance changes dynamically due to diverse forms of clothing, arbitrary occlusion, occlusions due to the viewing angle, and background contexts. Pose estimation needs to be robust to challenging real-world variations such as lighting and weather.
Therefore, it is challenging for image processing models to identify fine-grained joint coordinates. It is especially difficult to track small and barely visible joints.
The main challenges of pose detection in AI and computer vision include:
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Occlusions: When body parts are hidden or blocked by other objects or people, it becomes difficult for the model to accurately detect and track keypoints. This is a significant issue in crowded scenes or when people are interacting closely.
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Crowded Scenes: Detecting and tracking multiple individuals in crowded environments is complex. The model must distinguish between different people and their respective keypoints, which can be challenging when individuals overlap or are in close proximity.
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Motion Blur and Defocus: In video sequences, motion blur and defocused video frames can degrade the performance of pose estimation models. These issues are particularly problematic for real-time tracking, where the model needs to handle dynamic and fast-moving scenarios.
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Temporal Dependency: Capturing the temporal dependency among video frames is crucial for accurate multi-frame human pose estimation. However, this is a challenging task, especially when dealing with high-speed movements or complex interactions.
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Variations in Body Size and Pose: Pose estimation models must account for variations in body size and pose. For example, some bodies may be farther from the camera, making certain body parts almost invisible and difficult to estimate.
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Lighting Conditions and Backgrounds: Different environments with varying light contrast and complex backgrounds can affect the accuracy of pose estimation. The model needs to be robust enough to handle these variations.
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Limited Data and Annotated Datasets: Training pose estimation models requires large and diverse annotated datasets. For highly specific movements, such as those in rehabilitation or sports, custom data is often necessary, which can be time-consuming and costly to obtain.
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Model Complexity and Performance: More advanced pose estimation models with high accuracy can be computationally expensive and have a large memory footprint. Balancing model complexity and performance is a challenge, especially for deployment on various devices with different computational capabilities.
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Privacy Concerns: While privacy concerns are generally less relevant in human pose estimation compared to other computer vision tasks, they can still arise, particularly in applications involving surveillance or personal data.
Addressing these challenges requires ongoing research and development in areas such as dataset creation, model architecture, and algorithm optimization.
New World (Krewella, Yellow Claw ft. Veva) Extreme Gameplay 10 second preview
I’m pretty certain that she says “new earth” rather than “new world”, but maybe it’s just how my ear interprets autotune. This is a super beautiful routine when you get into it, but very sweaty, too. Editing will be for another day. Many more routines to unpack before I can sit down.
Woman Like Me; Gender neutral like thee
I’m starting to get a feel of how to make these videos in 16:9. There is a lot of woman in that routine btw.. I inserted two mirrored takes on each side of the frame (one reversed) then reduced opacity. So far, it is the lowest effort edit on my side.