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Project description

Mouse and keyboard are the dominant input hardware between human and machine at this time. Under this condition, our movement of control is not natural and many limitations occur during the operating process. Sometimes, our body even suffers chronic illness due to the constant operation. Therefore, this project aimed at developing a system which allows users to control with their hands by analyzing the input image information from a web cam

You can download my domo video to see how the program runs.

Result

Process

Finding the area of palm in front of a simple background by statistically analyzing the contour of hand. The lower green dot locates the wrist. Next step is to find the fingers
Applying GMM (Gaussian Mixture Models) to background subtraction

My Role: This is an independent work for my undergraduate thesis. I designed the interface and built the system with openCV library. I also conducted usability testing with 36 different users to test my system

Technology used: Processing, OpenCV library, C++, Photoshop, Illustrator


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