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BRACE (The Breakdancing Competition Dataset for Dance Motion Synthesis)

Introduced by Davide Moltisanti et al. in BRACE: The Breakdancing Competition Dataset for Dance Motion Synthesis20 Jul 2022 archive 2025-07-28

BRACE is a dataset for audio-conditioned dance motion synthesis challenging common assumptions for this task:

  • strong music-dance correlation
  • controlled motion data
  • simple poses and movements

To address these issues:

  • We focus on breakdancing which features acrobatic moves, tangled postures and weaker dance-music correlation.
  • We adopt a hybrid labelling pipeline leveraging estimation models as well as manual annotations to obtain good quality keypoint sequences at a reduced cost.
  • Our efforts produced the BRACE dataset, which contains over 3 hours and 30 minutes of densely annotated poses.
  • BRACE is also useful to fine-tune pose-estimation models thanks to its high quality keypoint annotations for complicated and uncommon poses.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Motion Synthesis BRACE Dance Revolution Frechet Inception Distance 0.5158 Dance Revolution: Long-Term Dance Generation with Music... — 3 Compare
Pose Estimation BRACE HRNet fine-tuned on BRACE Average Precision 0.357 Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human... open-mmlab/mmdetection +38 2 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

4 shown of 4 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 5. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
AI Choreographer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with AIST++ 1 1 21 Jan 2021 not harvested
Dance Revolution: Long-Term Dance Generation with Music via Curriculum Learning 0 1 11 Jun 2020 not harvested
Dancing to Music 2 1 5 Nov 2019 not harvested
Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation 39 2 25 Feb 2019 ran 8 of 25 samples (17 unverified)

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License archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

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