New technology made gesture recognition system from the movie "Minority Comment" yesterday

I remember how my friends and I were struck by the film “Minority Report”. In general, and not by the plot, but by advanced gesture recognition technology, which enabled Tom Cruise, a member of the alien Scientology sect, to control an electronic computer without any mice and other things - gestures and kind of like a voice (I don’t remember exactly, sorry). So, this system is far behind the new technology created by scientists from the German Institute for Applied Information Technology (Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik).

How is this technology superior to the one that was shown in the film? Well, for her, no gloves and other tricks are needed, the system recognizes fingers, finger movements, human hand movements. The movement of each finger can be tied to a specific team. You can do the same with the movement of the hands in general.

The same Tom Cruise from the "Special Opinion".

The system is controlled by new technology in real time (in principle, this is the only way). This technology allows you to localize the position of each finger and hand in space with very high accuracy. Unfortunately, the developers of the system do not yet have impressive videos, like frames from the film mentioned above, but there is a photo that is inserted in the announcement of the article.

Today, by the way, along with some laptops comes software that allows you to perform some operations with programs on a computer without a mouse, with simple gestures (of course, there must be a webcam for this). But the accuracy of such systems is very far from perfect and often it is not possible to open the site with the girls the first time to do what is needed, which is why the user is forced to repeat the gesture. It is clear that such “work” brings only irritation instead of pleasure.

PS By the way, Microsoft Kinect, a system which intersects with I've mentioned above, is available now, today, it appeared relevant news Habré .

And here is the source .