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<h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Project name </span></h3>
<p><i>Hand gesture guided desktop lamp</i>
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<h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Project short description </span></h3>
<p>This project supposes that esixts a desk lamp equipped of
				miniature camera oriented to the desktop and capable to change
				its position in the work space.
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<P>The aim of this project is to develop a computer vision based
				software to make the lamp's light move in a specific point on the
				desktop. The software will be capable to do that by using hand
				movements and gestures recognition. 
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				<P>In the specific the lamp have to recognize a gestures set to
				achieve the following behaviours:</P>
				<UL>
					<LI><P>move the light projected on the desktop from one area to
					another one by using one hand;</P>
					<LI><P>increase (decrease) the light area on the desk by
					increaseing (decreasing) the distance between the two hands;</P>
					<LI><P>move the lamp position keeping the same projection on the
					desk thus modifing its spatial orientation.</P>
				</UL>
<h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Dates </span></h3>
<p>Start date: 2009/10/30
</p><p>End date: ?
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<h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Website(s) </span></h3>
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<h3> <span class="mw-headline"> People involved </span></h3>
<p>Raffaele Petta - [[User:GabrielePetta]]
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<h5> <span class="mw-headline"> Project head(s) </span></h5>
<p>M. Matteucci - [[User:MatteoMatteucci]]
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<h5> <span class="mw-headline"> Other Politecnico di Milano people </span></h5>
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<h5> <span class="mw-headline"> Students currently working on the project </span></h5>
<p>Raffaele Petta - [[User:GabrielePetta]]
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<h5> <span class="mw-headline"> Students who worked on the project in the past </span></h5>
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<h5> <span class="mw-headline"> External personnel: </span></h5>
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<h3> <span class="mw-headline"> Laboratory work and risk analysis </span></h3>
<p>Since laboratory work for this project is limited to software related activities, there are no potential risks. 
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<h2> <span class="mw-headline"> <b>Part 2: Project description</b> </span></h2>
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<h3> <span class="mw-headline">Design notes and guidelines</span></h3>
<p>To make the goal achievable it is
				important to consider that the camera can be fixed or not. In the
				case of the second hypothesis the hand tracking must to be done
				using an approach capable to subtract a moving background: this
				subproblem can be solved using either the edges recognition or a
				color filter or a combination of the two.
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<h3> <span class="mw-headline">Useful internet links</span></h3>
<p>Active Contrours : http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~contours/
				
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