Open Source Tool Lets You Control Linux Desktop And Play Games By Tracking Your Gestures

Posted by Dart on Apr 4, 2012 4:47 PM EDT
Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh
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Skeltrack is a Free and Open Source Software library by Igalia for tracking the human skeleton joints from depth images. It is implemented with GLib and uses plain mathematics to detect the human skeleton and although it does not use any database, it was inspired by Andreas Baak's paper: A Data-Driven Approach for Real-Time Full Body Pose Reconstruction from a Depth Camera. Skeltrack devs have recorded very cool videos showing Gnome Shell and Linux games being controlled through gestures.

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