A FAST AND ROBUST HAND-DRIVEN 3D MOUSE

Andrea Bottino, Matteo De Simone

2009

Abstract

The development of new interaction paradigms requires a natural interaction. This means that people should be able to interact with technology with the same models used to interact with everyday real life, that is through gestures, expressions, voice. Following this idea, in this paper we propose a non intrusive vision based tracking system able to capture hand motion and simple hand gestures. The proposed device allows to use the hand as a “natural” 3D mouse, where the forefinger tip or the palm centre are used to identify a 3D marker and the hand gesture can be used to simulate the mouse buttons. The approach is based on a monoscopic tracking algorithm which is computationally fast and robust against noise and cluttered backgrounds. Two image streams are processed in parallel exploiting multi-core architectures, and their results are combined to obtain a constrained stereoscopic problem. The system has been implemented and thoroughly tested in an experimental environment where the 3D hand mouse has been used to interact with objects in a virtual reality application. We also provide results about the performances of the tracker, which demonstrate precision and robustness of the proposed system.

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Bottino A. and De Simone M. (2009). A FAST AND ROBUST HAND-DRIVEN 3D MOUSE . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 567-574. DOI: 10.5220/0001746005670574


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@conference{visapp09,
author={Andrea Bottino and Matteo De Simone},
title={A FAST AND ROBUST HAND-DRIVEN 3D MOUSE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={567-574},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001746005670574},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - A FAST AND ROBUST HAND-DRIVEN 3D MOUSE
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - Bottino A.
AU - De Simone M.
PY - 2009
SP - 567
EP - 574
DO - 10.5220/0001746005670574