A robust blob recognition and tracking method in vision-based multi-touch technique

Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, ISPA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 971-974

  Wang, Feng ^a   Ren, Xiangshi ^a   Liu, Zhen ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blob recognition; Blob tracking; Multi touch; Vision based

Indexed keywords

BLOB RECOGNITION; BLOB TRACKING; CONTACT AREAS; HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE CONTOURS; MINIMUM DISTANCES; MULTI-TOUCH; REAL TIME; SEQUENTIAL IMAGES; TRACKING METHODS; TRANSFORMATION ALGORITHMS; VISION-BASED;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEQUENTIAL SWITCHING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 60649102622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPA.2008.129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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