Multi-Camera Multi-Person Pointing Gesture Recognition for Interaction in Immersive Environments
- Investigators
- Staff:
Arcot Sowmya.
- Student: Anuraag Sridhar.
- Collaborations
- Description
- Introduction: Immersive environments is a field of research that has greatly benefited from recent advances in hardware and software technologies.
- Significance: They have proven to be quite useful in fields ranging from entertainment to education. As such environments improve, there is also a constant need to improve the interaction paradigm within the immersive application. This problem has been tackled in many different ways from virtual reality gear through to computer vision based interaction.
- Applications: In this research we demonstrate a system which uses multiple cameras to allow multiple people to interact with a large-scale immersive display, via a pointing gesture. The cameras are separated into two basic subsets - overhead cameras and side cameras. Overhead cameras are used to perform multi-person tracking, and side cameras are used to perform posture recognition.
- Challenges: Vision-based interaction provides the least encumbered mechanism for interaction as it removes the reliance on wires, markers and wearable outfits.
- Publication
