Teaching Kinect for Windows to read your hands
March 7, 2013
One promising direction in the evolution of Kinect for Windows is enabling hand-gesture recognition. A machine-learning project uses a large, varied set of images of people’s hands to train Kinect to determine if a hand is open or closed. This enables the development of a handgrip detector, which could launch another step forward in natural user interfaces.
— Microsoft Research
Video Source: Microsoft Research
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Comments (2)
by SmartAndSober
I think it will be great to combine this with the Oblong Industry’s products.
There are many different approaches to ubiquitous computing, it seems.
When these type of motion-sensing screens become incorporated into almost every walls of schools, offices, public buildings and more locations, the world will be a very interesting place.
by Dwight
I can’t wait to see what they are really cooking up. With a new Xbox expected for the end of the year, it can be pretty safely assumed that there will be a new, higher resolution Kinect on the way. It’s just that right now, thanks to the nature of the videogame business, they aren’t allowed to show anything with the new device.
If it’s fluid enough, I might like to hook one up to my PC.