Title :
Touch sensing by image analysis of fingernail
Author :
Sugita, Naoki ; Iwai, Daisuke ; Sato, Kosuke
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ., Suita
Abstract :
In this paper, we propose a new method to recognize finger contact by image analysis, which does not disturb userpsilas tactile feeling. When a finger touches a desktop surface, the color pattern of its nail changes from pink to white. The appearance change of the nail can be used to distinguish the finger contact onto a desktop surface by image matching between a camera image and a fingertip image database. Due to high dimensionality of the database, we apply EigenNail method based on principal component analysis (PCA) to realize the quick image matching.
Keywords :
fingerprint identification; image colour analysis; image matching; principal component analysis; touch (physiological); visual databases; EigenNail method; color pattern; finger contact recognition; fingertip image database; image analysis; image matching; principal component analysis; touch sensing; Cameras; Fingers; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image databases; Image matching; Image recognition; Interactive systems; Nails; Principal component analysis; Nail image; touch sensing;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference, 2008
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-4-907764-30-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-4-907764-29-6
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2008.4654901
