Hand-based Interface for Augmented Reality. Poster

Abstract

Augmented reality (AR) is a highly interdisciplinary field which has received increasing attention since late 90s. Basically, it consists of a combination of the real scene viewed by a user and a computer generated image, running in real time. So, AR allows the user to see the real world supplemented, in general, with some information considered as useful, enhancing the user’s perception and knowledge of the environment. In this paper, a hand-based interface for mobile AR applications is described. It detects the user hand with a pointing gesture in images from a camera placed on a head-mounted display worn by the user, and it returns the position in the image where the tip of the index finger is pointing at. Our approach is based on skin color, without the need of glove or colored marks.