Music-driven motion editing: Local motion transformations guided by music analysis

This paper presents a general framework for synchronising motion curves to music in computer animation. Motions are locally modified using perceptual cues extracted from the music. The key to this approach is the use of standard music analysis techniques on complementary MIDI and audio representations of the same soundtrack. These musical features then guide the motion editing process. It allows users to easily combine different aspects of the music with different aspects of the motion.