Takehiro Nakai

Gesture keyboard requiring only one camera

In this paper, we propose a novel gesture-based virtual keyboard (Gesture Keyboard) of QWERTY key layout requiring only one camera. Gesture Keyboard tracks the users fingers and recognizes gestures as the input, and each virtual key of it follows a corresponding finger. Therefore, it is possible to input characters at the users preferred hand position even if displacing hands during inputting. Because Gesture Keyboard requires only one camera to obtain sensor information, keyboard-less devices can feature it easily.

Poster: Head gesture 3D interface using a head mounted camera

In this paper, we propose a real world UI that uses head gestures. This UI detects user head motion obtained in images by head mounted camera (HMC). It estimates the relative position and distance between a users head and objects user is viewing. To prevent erroneous judgment, a head-specific motion model is applied in gesture recognition. As a feedback to the user, detailed object information is displayed on head mounted display (HMD). This UI allows hands-free interaction with surrounding objects. We show the UIs effectiveness by experiments.