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In this paper, we present a button-sized (43mm×18mm) visual input system for wearable computers, the FingerMouse. It is a fully integrated camera and vision processing system, with a specifically designed ASIC computing images at 20GOp/s consuming 78mW. Worn on the body, it captures the user’s hand and processes in real-time its coordinates as well as a 1-bit image of the hand segmented from the background. This paper describes the architecture of the FingerMouse and compares it to other implementations.
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de la Hamette, P., Tröster, G. (2006). FingerMouse – A Button Size Visual Hand Tracking and Segmentation Device. In: Grass, W., Sick, B., Waldschmidt, K. (eds) Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2006. ARCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3894. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11682127_3
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