Algorithm Structure
About The Project
Now days interactions with computers are done mainly by the well known I/O
devices – keyboard & mouse.
In this project we were looking for an intuitive way to communicate with the
computer.
The need was to find a transformation between the real world coordinates
and the virtual world coordinates and a way of recognizing hand gestures.
it was done by using 3D camera (Zcam 3DV Systems) that produce RGB
video and gray scale depth video simultaneously and by using Intel’s
OpenCV library functions for image processing .
This field of recognizing gestures deduces a vast scale of applications from
interactive computer games till sign language recognition and virtual
computer control .
We choose to focus on the virtual computer control aspect by simulating a
virtual mouse.
we implemented a real time algorithm that tracks the hand palm and uses its
center mass coordinates as the mouse pointer and recognizing hand
gestures to simulate mouse clicks .
About the camera
Z-Cam: 3DV Systems
product. the company was
bought by Microsoft in
the beginning of 2009.
Based on image sensing
technology 2 video
streams , one generates
distance (depth)
information for each
pixel or object captured
by the camera (by IR)
and represented in black
and white video , the
second
is color RGB
video.
