Low Cost Finger Tracking on Flat Surfaces
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2008
Authors
Farinella, Giovanni Maria
Rustico, Eugenio
Rustico, Eugenio
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Publisher
The Eurographics Association
Abstract
We present a flexible system to track the movements of a bare finger on a flat surface. The proposed system is able to discriminate whether the user is touching or just pointing at the surface. The system works using two webcams and a fast scanline-based algorithm. The initial setup of the two webcams is easy and fast. No markers, gloves, or other hand-held devices are required. Since the system is independent from the nature of the pointing surface, it is possible to use a screen or a projected wall as a virtual touchscreen. The complexity of the algorithms used by the system grows less than linearly with resolution, making the software layer very lightweight and suitable also for low-powered devices like embedded controllers.
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@inproceedings{:10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/043-048,
booktitle = {Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference},
editor = {Vittorio Scarano and Rosario De Chiara and Ugo Erra},
title = {{Low Cost Finger Tracking on Flat Surfaces}},
author = {Farinella, Giovanni Maria and Rustico, Eugenio},
year = {2008},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-68-5},
DOI = {/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/ItalChap/ItalianChapConf2008/043-048}
}