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waveSense: Ultra Low Power Gesture Sensing Based on Selective Volumetric Illumination

Published: 16 October 2016 Publication History

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We present waveSense, a low power hand gestures recogni- tion system suitable for mobile and wearable devices. A novel Selective Volumetric Illumination (SVI) approach using off-the-shelf infrared (IR) emitters and non-focused IR sensors were introduced to achieve the power efficiency. Our current implementation consumes 8.65mW while sensing hand gestures within 60cm radius from the sensors. In this demo, we introduce the concept and the theoretical background of waveSense, details of the prototype implementation, and application possibilities.

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    UIST '16 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
    October 2016
    244 pages
    ISBN:9781450345316
    DOI:10.1145/2984751
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    1. compressive sensing
    2. hand gesture recognition
    3. interacting with virtual reality devices
    4. selective volumetric illumination
    5. smart wearables

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    • (2020)ThermalRing: Gesture and Tag Inputs Enabled by a Thermal Imaging Smart RingProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376323(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
    • (2017)Augmented SensorsAssistive Augmentation10.1007/978-981-10-6404-3_2(7-21)Online publication date: 12-Nov-2017

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