FingerMouse – a button size visual hand tracking and segmentation device

  • Authors:
  • Patrick de la Hamette;Gerhard Tröster

  • Affiliations:
  • Wearable Computing Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland;Wearable Computing Lab, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ARCS'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a button-sized (43mm×18mm) visual input system for wearable computers, the FingerMouse. It is a fully integrated camera and vision processing system, with a specifically designed ASIC computing images at 20GOp/s consuming 78mW. Worn on the body, it captures the user's hand and processes in real-time its coordinates as well as a 1-bit image of the hand segmented from the background. This paper describes the architecture of the FingerMouse and compares it to other implementations.