PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF OBJECT ACQUISITION USING AUTOMATIC SCANNING AND FACIAL FEATURE TRACKING

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Published: Feb 20, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26483/ijarcs.v9i1.5242
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Object acquisition, HCI systems, automatic scanning, face tracking

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Hari Singh
Research Scholar IKG Punjab Technical University Kapurthala (Punjab) - India
Jaswinder Singh
Associate Professor Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Beant College of Engineering and Technology Gurdaspur (Punjab) - India

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison of object acquisition in an HCI system using two different techniques: automatic scanning and facial feature tracking. In automatic scanning the focus moves from one object to next object automatically after a predefined time period called scanning time. Automatic scanning has been implemented by using MATLAB algorithm which virtually activates the tab key after each scanning time and the focus moves from object to object. The user activates a selection trigger for selection of the object when the focus comes over the object of interest. Whereas, in facial feature tracking approach the mouse cursor is moved in proportion to the movement of user’s face. To implement this technique Camera Mouse has been used which requires a simple webcam. It continuously takes facial images of the user and finds the mouse cursor position from the face coordinates. The two techniques are compared based upon accuracy and acquisition time for acquisition of text and graphic objects.

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Hari Singh, Research Scholar IKG Punjab Technical University Kapurthala (Punjab) - India

Assistant Professor Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar (India)

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