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International Conference on Entertainment Computing

ICEC 2004: Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2004 pp 90–100Cite as

Optical-Flow-Driven Gadgets for Gaming User Interface

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We describe how to build a VIDEOPLACE-like vision-driven user interface using “optical-flow” measurements. The optical-flow denotes the estimated movement of an image patch between two consecutive frames from a video sequence. Similar framework is used in a number of commercial vision-driven interactive computer games but the motion of the users is detected by examining the difference between two consecutive frames. The optical-flow presents a natural extension. We show here how the optical-flow can be used to provide much richer interaction.

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  1. Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group, University of Amsterdam, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Zoran Zivkovic

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Zivkovic, Z. (2004). Optical-Flow-Driven Gadgets for Gaming User Interface. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2004. ICEC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28643-1_12

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