Tele-Graffiti: A Camera-Projector Based Remote Sketching System with Hand-Based User Interface and Automatic Session Summarization

  • Authors:
  • Naoya Takao;Jianbo Shi;Simon Baker

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Network Development Center, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., 1006 Kadoma, Kadoma City, Osaka 571-8501, Japan;The GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

One way to build a remote sketching system is to use a video camera to image what each user draws at their site, transmit the video to the other sites, and display it there using an LCD projector. Such camera-projector based remote sketching systems date back to Paul Wellner's (largely unimplemented) Xerox Double DigitalDesk. To make such a system usable, however, the users have to be able to move the paper on which they are drawing, they have to be able to interact with the system using a convenient interface, and sketching sessions must be stored in a compact format so that they can be replayed later. We have recently developed Tele-Graffiti, a remote sketching system with the following three features: (1) real-time paper tracking to allow the users to move their paper during system operation, (2) a hand based user interface, and (3) automatic session summarization and playback. In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, and performance of Tele-Graffiti.