The melody of "Kumala" resonated in the training room. As the Tibetan dancer's "trembling knee" movement settled, the robot beside her had already precisely replicated this nuanced pose. This isn't a scene from science fiction, but the core scenario of an exchange activity on the "new" dance talent cultivation system in the digital-intelligent era, attended by experts and scholars from the Dance Research Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts and industry professionals at Shanghai Film Art Academy. As a long-term industry-university-research partner of the Academy, CHINGMU empowered this industry exchange with its core technology, joining all parties to witness the new educational sparks ignited by the collision of technology and art.
A Stunning Demonstration: Four Years of Deep Collaboration
A dancer moves gracefully, a robot follows synchronously, and an AI system generates a multi-dimensional movement evaluation report in real-time. This one-minute, high-fidelity demonstration is both a concentrated showcase of Shanghai Film Art Academy's "integration of arts and science" teaching achievements and vivid proof of CHINGMU's technical prowess. Witnessed by experts including Yang Minggang, Director of the Dance Research Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts, and Liu Chun, Deputy Director, Qu Huijia, Dean of the Performing Arts College of Shanghai Film Art Academy, led her team in fully presenting the process from dance data capture and robot motion driving to AI dance teaching evaluation. This seamless presentation relies on the support of CHINGMU's high-precision, low-latency motion capture technology and its accompanying service.
Back in 2021, when the industry was still exploring the possibilities of digital teaching and industry-education integration, CHINGMU and Shanghai Film Art Academy reached a consensus: technology should not merely be for "display," but should be deeply integrated into the entire process of teaching, creation, industry, and research. Guided by this philosophy, CHINGMU assisted the Digital College in establishing a Digital Virtual Human Training Room and a Motion Capture Training Room. These facilities incubated projects like the digital human "Muxia" and digital cultural creation projects such as "Little Astronaut." Key CG animation scenes for films like "The Battle at Lake Changjin II" and "One and Only" also utilized this training platform for motion capture and digital creation.
In 2023, CHINGMU helped the Film Technology Innovation College build the "5G + Digital Virtual Simulation Intelligent Soundstage." This is not only Shanghai's first municipal-level virtual simulation training base but also the first comprehensive intelligent soundstage in domestic institutions integrating LED virtual production, motion capture, and real-time rendering.
As the core technology partner, CHINGMU's full-stack motion capture system and camera tracking technology achieved precise synchronization between real cameras and virtual scenes, making "what you see is what you get" virtual production a teaching norm. Utilizing this technology, Shanghai's first university virtual production experimental short film "Spring Returns Again" was successfully created and selected for the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival.
The collaboration further expanded to the Performing Arts College. The "AI Dance Assessment" system provided by CHINGMU combines motion capture, data collection, and intelligent evaluation, transforming into a quantifiable, reviewable intelligent teaching tool. The system provides real-time feedback on students' dance movements, significantly improving training efficiency and movement accuracy. Its intelligent scoring function also allows for quantified evaluation of movement details, providing an objective basis for teaching outcomes, thereby injecting cutting-edge technological momentum into traditional arts education.
From digital content creation to high-standard virtual production training, and further to arts teaching, the two parties have systematically integrated cutting-edge technology into the entire process of teaching, creation, and research, building a new, sustainable industry-education integration ecosystem that evolves from single-point breakthroughs to multi-dimensional fusion.
DexDecode Empowers the Listing of China's First Professional Dance Database
The core support for the demonstration's success lies in high-quality "data fuel." This addresses the fundamental challenge targeted by CHINGMU's upcoming new product—the high-precision multimodal data collection system and high-quality training dataset, DexDecode. This system integrates optical, inertial, and tactile sensing, specifically designed to build high-quality, multimodal, reusable datasets in real, complex environments.
Leveraging this system, CHINGMU, in collaboration with Tsinghua University and Shanghai Film Art Academy, developed China's first professional dance database, which has been officially listed on the Shanghai Data Exchange. This database utilizes CHINGMU's high-precision optical motion capture system and its self-developed CMAvatar software for continuous, high-frequency, high-quality data collection, covering core dance genres including classical and folk dance. To date, the database has accumulated over 4,200 AI-evaluated video materials and vast amounts of high-quality human motion data resources, directly supporting deep applications in areas like digital human driving, AI model training, and content creation for film, television, and games.
This means that whether enterprises seek data collection services or research institutions require ready-to-use, high-quality datasets, CHINGMU's DexDecode can meet the full-chain needs from data production to consumption.
The Choice of 300+ Institutions: Letting Technology Become an "Educational Partner"
The deep collaboration with Shanghai Film Art Academy is a typical example of CHINGMU's education partnership model. As China's first high-tech enterprise achieving full-stack independent R&D (algorithm-hardware-software) in optical motion capture, with a 100% core technology self-sufficiency rate, CHINGMU firmly believes that technology is not just a tool but a key driver reshaping educational models and teaching methodologies.
With years of dedication in the education sector, CHINGMU Education, through the model of "co-building training bases + jointly developing courses + incubating practical projects," has provided disciplinary construction support for over 300 institutions including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Communication University of China. Its services cover 90% of China's "Project 985" and "Project 211" universities, firmly holding the top position in the education market. As Bao Wenjun, Dean of the Digital College at Shanghai Film Art Academy, stated, "Through real project practice, students 'learn by doing and do by learning,' truly achieving dual enhancement in mastering cutting-edge technology and solving complex problems."
Technology never seeks to replace the warmth of art; instead, it becomes a bridge. It allows the details of dance movements to be accurately recorded, makes the standards for teaching evaluation more objective, and clears the path for realizing creativity. CHINGMU always believes that when technology is deeply integrated into education, every artistic idea gains the potential for realization, and every creator gains a broader stage.
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