Everybody Dance Now! Yes...Even You!

There is always that one person, generally at weddings, parties and the like, who believes beyond a reasonable doubt that they have been blessed with the ability to dance.

Often fueled by alcohol and an inexplicable overabundance of confidence, you’ll have no trouble identifying such a creature as they strut their stuff (or lack thereof) on the dance floor.

Now, those woefully unskilled at the art of dance may be given a second chance in the rhythm department thanks to researchers from UC Berkeley who have developed artificial intelligence that will at least give the impression that a person can dance.

The AI system will copy actions from a person who can actually dance and impose those moves on images of a person who cannot.

In the report, titled Everybody Dance Now, researchers detail the process of taking “source” video (in this case, video of professional dancers) and overlaying their moves onto a target video.

According to the report, images of the dancer and the non-dancer are turned into 3D stick figures that can be adjusted to their location in the frame. When the music begins the AI then generates new frames of the target dancing.

To see the AI in action, watch the accompanying video.