Use of a webcam for movement detection
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2014-01-01Type
Conference paper
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Accessibility evolving as a major concern nowadays, the suppression the utilization of a mouse while the user interacts via an interface becomes relevant as well. The work described herein aims at creating a method to control a computer through a webcam, which recognizes the movements of the user hands and moves the cursor accordingly. The proposed method turns out to be reliable and presents a low computational cost being capable of fulfilling the requirements of several applications.
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Silva, W. R. S. et al. Use of a webcam for movement detection. Computational Vision And Medical Image Processing Iv. Boca Raton: Crc Press-taylor & Francis Group, p. 219-222, 2014. Available at: <http://hdl.handle.net/11449/184730>.
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