Finger tracking for interaction in augmented environments

Author

Dorfmüller-Ulhaas, Klaus ; Schmalstieg, Dieter

Author_Institution

Imagination Comput. Services, Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Optical tracking systems allow three-dimensional input for virtual environment applications with high precision and without annoying cables. Spontaneous and intuitive interaction is possible through gestures. The authors present a finger tracker that allows gestural interaction and is simple, cheap, fast, robust against occlusion and accurate. It is based on a marked glove, a stereoscopic tracking system and a kinematic 3D model of the human finger. Within our augmented reality application scenario, the user is able to grab, translate, rotate, and release objects in an intuitive way. We demonstrate our tracking system in an augmented reality chess game, allowing a user to interact with virtual objects

Keywords

augmented reality; computer games; gesture recognition; optical tracking; stereo image processing; augmented environment interaction; augmented reality application scenario; augmented reality chess game; finger tracker; finger tracking; gestural interaction; human finger; intuitive interaction; kinematic 3D model; marked glove; optical tracking systems; stereoscopic tracking system; three-dimensional input; tracking system; user interaction; virtual environment applications; virtual objects; Application software; Cables; Control systems; Fingers; Mice; Optical computing; Optical sensors; Taxonomy; Tracking; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Augmented Reality, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE and ACM International Symposium on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1375-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAR.2001.970515

Filename

970515