Low Cost Finger Tracking on Flat Surfaces

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2008
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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
} }
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