Music-driven lighting manipulation for stage performance visual design

When creating real or virtual computer graphics performance. The desired visual effect is influenced by a range of factors, i.e. the music effect, illumination, etc. Although there are mature theoretical supports for the current stage design, it still requires rich experience for the designers to realize the idea. And there are still no effective methods to modify the 3D scene illumination considering the music atmosphere. To address this problem, we propose a music-driven Stage lighting design system to automatically control the lighting color according to the background music. Our technique classifies the music with category tags, then formulates the evaluation function with the visual properties and the scene view images to evaluate and obtain harmonious lighting color. Experiments and analysis demonstrate that the advantages of our system provide strong support tools for the stage light designers.