The rapid progress in Virtual Reality technology has demanded more natural and effective human-computer interaction (HCI) for tasks such as display control, navigation and virtual object manipulation. Conventional interface devices such as keyboards and mice are cumbersome to use in Virtual Environments (VE). Bare hand gesturing (especially in combination with speech) is a leading candidate for...

Real-time simultaneous tracking of hands manipulating and interacting with external objects has many potential applications in augmented reality, tangible computing, and wearable computing. However, due to difficult occlusions, fast motions, and uniform hand appearance, jointly tracking hand and object pose is more challenging than tracking either of the two separately. Many previous approaches...

Subjects were asked to track, with their eyes or their hand, the movement of a target that maintained a constant speed and made a single, abrupt change in direction. The tracking speed and direction of motion after the step change in target direction were compared for the eyes and the hand. After removal of the saccades from the eye movement records, it was found that in both cases, there was a...

Understanding how a human behaves while performing human-computer interaction tasks is essential in order to develop better user interfaces. In the case of touch and gesture based interfaces, the main interest is in the characterization of hand movements. The recent developments in imaging technology and computing hardware have made it attractive to exploit high-speed imaging for tracking the h...

Like bodily, physiological, and psychological skills which are commonly assessed in professional sport, assessment of visual skills is also of high importance. In this regard, and in order to organize teams efficiently, the skills of each player, considering his/her post in the pitch, should be developed for superiority over the opponent. The present study attempts to clarify if there is a mean...

constructing phase diagram and its subsequent quality lines for lean gas condensate reservoirs is always crucial and challenging topic in reservoir fluid studies. due to small amounts of liquid drop-outs in lean gas condensates at reservoir conditions, full experimental tracking of phase diagram and its relevant quality lines is almost impossible for lean gas condensates.on the other hand, eos ...

A new procedure for deriving nonlinear mathematical modeling for a specific class of aerospace hydro - mechanical control valves is presented. The effects of friction on the dynamic behavior of these types of valves along with the experimental verifictions are also given. The modeling approach is based on the combination of the following three tasks: decomposition of the valve into simple speci...

We have developed a 3D modelling system that can provide a stereo visualization in a back-projection screen environment. It takes a wireless interaction with user’s head and hand supported by a Vision Tracking System. Our model representation is based on the MeshLibrary, which is optimized for real-time rendering and can accommodate for changes of both vertex positions and mesh connectivity. Th...

This paper presents a vision-based interface for controlling a computer mouse via 2D and 3D hand gestures. The proposed interface builds upon our previous work that permits the detection and tracking of multiple hands that can move freely in the field of view of a potentially moving camera system. Dependable hand tracking, combined with fingertip detection, facilitates the definition of simple ...

Tracking output is a very attractive source of labeled data sets that, in turn, could be used to train other systems for tracking, detection, recognition and categorization. In this context, long tracking sequences are of particular importance because they provide richer information, multiple views, wider range of appearances. This paper addresses two obstacles to the use of tracking data for t...