iHand: an interactive bare-hand-based augmented reality interface on commercial mobile phones

Junyeong Choi; Jungsik Park; Hanhoon Park; Jong-II Park

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.2.027206

14 February 2013 iHand: an interactive bare-hand-based augmented reality interface on commercial mobile phones

Junyeong Choi, Jungsik Park, Hanhoon Park, Jong-II Park

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 2, 027206 (February 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.2.027206

Abstract

The performance of mobile phones has rapidly improved, and they are emerging as a powerful platform. In many vision-based applications, human hands play a key role in natural interaction. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the interaction between human hands and the mobile phone. Thus, we propose a vision- and hand gesture-based interface in which the user holds a mobile phone in one hand but sees the other hand’s palm through a built-in camera. The virtual contents are faithfully rendered on the user’s palm through palm pose estimation, and reaction with hand and finger movements is achieved that is recognized by hand shape recognition. Since the proposed interface is based on hand gestures familiar to humans and does not require any additional sensors or markers, the user can freely interact with virtual contents anytime and anywhere without any training. We demonstrate that the proposed interface works at over 15 fps on a commercial mobile phone with a 1.2-GHz dual core processor and 1 GB RAM.

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Junyeong Choi, Jungsik Park, Hanhoon Park, and Jong-II Park "iHand: an interactive bare-hand-based augmented reality interface on commercial mobile phones," Optical Engineering 52(2), 027206 (14 February 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.2.027206

Published: 14 February 2013

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