Scientists have developed a new program that can identify people based on how they dance

A team of researchers from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have developed a new computer system that can identify individuals not through their faces or finger prints, but simply by watching them dance. For the experiment the team analyzed the movements of 73 participants as they danced to music in eight different genres, including blues, country, metal, reggae, rap, and more. They developed a machine learning program that would analyze 21 different points of articulation on each dancer's body through a motion capture camera, and combined that data with some general information about each participant. The team found that the machine learning program was able to accurately identify which of the 73 participants was dancing just by capturing their movements 94 percent of the time. 'It seems as though a person's dance movements are a kind of fingerprint,' researcher Dr. Pasi Saari told Eurekalert.