CamTouch project will take part in the final of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 from Ukraine
Last year, in the international final of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, a team of students from Donetsk won quadSquad, which showed an interactive glove that allows you to transform finger movements into sounds - this allows dumb and deaf-and-dumb people to communicate without special gestures, which can not understand everything.
This year the project of a 16-year-old Andrei Kovalenko from a small town in the Luhansk region of Stakhanov became the winner of the national Ukrainian final. His CamTouch project allows you to interact with programs that, through a projector, are displayed on some suitable surface, such as a wall, with a laser pointer.
Below is a short video in which the author rather directly shows the possibilities of his program (non-professional video and in Ukrainian). The bottom line is approximately as follows: the interface of the operating system is projected onto the wall through a standard computer projector and all interaction with it (working with windows, drawing in the editor, etc.) is done through an image on the wall, or remotely using a laser pointer on it.
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As far as you can understand, the webcam is responsible for the feedback to the computer - it is unlikely that the laptop is due to its not very good image qualities (while the video clearly shows the game Angry Birds). There are no other technical details - for example, a library used for image processing, although it is mentioned in passing that such was actually used.
To understand the level of competition, it is worth mentioning Andrey's competitors. The HammerBird team from Odessa competed with it with an arcade game on environmental issues and Prismatique with a WinPhone application for teaching preschoolers in arithmetic and basic logic. Thus, recalling last year's winners, it is impossible not to notice that the jury of the competition is much more inclined to practical solutions “which can be touched” than to abstract products.
This year the project of a 16-year-old Andrei Kovalenko from a small town in the Luhansk region of Stakhanov became the winner of the national Ukrainian final. His CamTouch project allows you to interact with programs that, through a projector, are displayed on some suitable surface, such as a wall, with a laser pointer.
Below is a short video in which the author rather directly shows the possibilities of his program (non-professional video and in Ukrainian). The bottom line is approximately as follows: the interface of the operating system is projected onto the wall through a standard computer projector and all interaction with it (working with windows, drawing in the editor, etc.) is done through an image on the wall, or remotely using a laser pointer on it.
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As far as you can understand, the webcam is responsible for the feedback to the computer - it is unlikely that the laptop is due to its not very good image qualities (while the video clearly shows the game Angry Birds). There are no other technical details - for example, a library used for image processing, although it is mentioned in passing that such was actually used.
To understand the level of competition, it is worth mentioning Andrey's competitors. The HammerBird team from Odessa competed with it with an arcade game on environmental issues and Prismatique with a WinPhone application for teaching preschoolers in arithmetic and basic logic. Thus, recalling last year's winners, it is impossible not to notice that the jury of the competition is much more inclined to practical solutions “which can be touched” than to abstract products.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/176365/
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