Musical conducting is a unique blend of musical performance and communication. Conductors are the only musicians who can freely move their hands to create sound, without having their gestures constrained by a rigid instrument, as their instrument is the entire orchestra. The act of conducting can also be seen as communication, as the conductor is using gestures to convey information to the other musicians. While gesture recognition is a widely researched topic in human-computer interaction, conducting hasn’t been studied too extensively. In this talk I will present some of my work on analyzing, generating, and recognizing conducting gestures, highlighting both methods and applications. Speaker(s): Andrea Salgian, Room: STEM 102, Bldg: STEM Building, The College of New Jersey, 2000 Pennington Rd., Ewing, New Jersey, United States, 08618, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/452460