• DocumentCode
    3155764
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    20-22 Aug. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1520
  • Lastpage
    1525
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SICE Annual Conference, 2008
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-4-907764-30-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-4-907764-29-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SICE.2008.4654901
  • Filename
    4654901