Title :
Virtual programming with bare-hand-based interaction
Author :
Yuan, Xiaobu ; Lu, Jiangnan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Windsor Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
Virtual programming is the front end of virtual assembly. It provides the interface for product engineers to plan, evaluate, optimize, and verify the assembly of mechanical products without the need of physical objects. However, the dependency of virtual programming on specialized virtual reality devices, such as data gloves, imposes limits on the convenience of human-computer interaction. Presented in this paper is a new approach of bare-hand-based posture recognition and motion tracking. It localizes and segments fingertips with a combined method of skin detection and contour retrieving, thus producing accurate results. Experiments demonstrate the robustness of the presented approach and its use in the interaction design for virtual programming.
Keywords :
gesture recognition; image motion analysis; image segmentation; virtual manufacturing; virtual reality; bare-hand-based interaction; bare-hand-based posture recognition; contour retrieving; fingertip segmentation; human-computer interaction; motion tracking; skin detection; virtual assembly; virtual programming; virtual reality; Application software; Assembly; Data gloves; Humans; Robot programming; Robustness; Shape; Skin; Tracking; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation, 2005 IEEE International Conference
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9044-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2005.1626670