Simple gesture recognition

You must have a webcam to use this application

This is a prototype application that uses video input from your webcam to do simple motion recognition. It rotates the cube to the left/right if you wave your hand towards the left/right.

Instructions:
- When the security popup appears, choose to allow Flash to access our webcam.
- Your webcam image should appear in the small panel on bottom right
- Wave your hand to the left/right in front of you, as if you were pushing aside a curtain at a moderate speed
- The cube should rotate to the left/right in response to your gesture
- The motion indicator at the bottom of the screen shows the extent of left/right motion, even if it is not high enough to trigger the cube

The red and yellow areas on the webcam image show areas of motion. At present, we are using a very naive motion detection algorithm that tries to exclude gross motions and looks for horizontal movement of the motion area. You might find that you need to slow down your gesture to get it to work, or that you need to move back from the camera.

At this point, this is nothing useful. It's a beginning towards a proof of concept. The idea is that if this type of motion recognition can be made accurate and robust enough, it could open up new possibilities for interaction with your computer without having to add any new hardware.

This application is developed and maintained by Symmetri.

Once your search results appear, you can use the arrow keys, the SHIFT key and the mouse to interact with your searchcube.

searchcube requires that you have Javascript enabled and Flash Player version 9 or higher installed for your web browser. You can download Flash Player for free from the Adobe website.