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Find Documentation for OpenCV
 
Bring images from camera into processing program
 
Adapt OCV.lib to track point(s) of highest color intesity in images
 
Test with one finger first, then expand to five fingers
 
Record coordinate pairs over time and remove noise
 
Create program to interpret human gestures from this data
 
**If previous step is successfully excuted** Create simple visual interface
 
 
Resources Needed Room with controlled lighting, Raspberry Pi B+, Rasp. Pi Camera Module
 
Computer with C++/Python IDE, Black gloves with colored fingertips
 
 
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Connor Goggins
 
David Battel
 

Revision as of 20:13, 12 February 2016

FingerSpark


Overview

FingerSpark, our product, will be a program that will allow a camera to track a user’s hand and individual fingers. The user will wear a glove with different colored fingers, making it easier for the camera to pinpoint the two-dimensional location of each finger. The camera will also utilize a Raspberry Pi B+ CPU, which will run our program and gather the data from the camera, forming an integrated system that will be mounted on a tripod for the user’s convenience.

To achieve this, we plan to use an image processing program to process individual frames from the camera’s video feed which we will analyze to determine the coordinates of each of the user’s fingers. Once this is done, we hope to write a program to interpret human gestures using this data.


Objective

Our goal in creating FingerSpark is to work towards eliminating the barriers to perfectly natural user control of electronics. We believe that our product will be an essential next step in developing three-dimensional operating systems, creating robots that can flawlessly mimic the fine motor skills of humans, and producing interactive augmented reality technologies.


Budget

  • Set of comfortable black gloves: ~$10
  • Something to color the finger tips: ~$5
  • Misc: ~$25

TOTAL: $95


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