Fraunhofer-GesellschaftDevelopment of a multi-touch interface capable of recognizing gestures using a 3-D camera system
Georg Hackenberg M. Sc. (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT)
Gesture recognition systems have received a lot of attention in recent years, in part because they are already available in simplified form in the computer games industry. But there is still plenty of scope for developing this kind of interaction with computers further.
Georg Hackenberg M. Sc. of Fraunhofer FIT has taken gesture control a step further with his Master’s thesis: He developed a multi-touch interface that uses a 3-D camera system to recognize gestures down to the movements of each finger and process them in real time. This represents a significant advance in gesture recognition technology, since precise hand movements and signals play such an integral part in human gestural communication. Hackenberg’s invention, for which he was awarded 1st place in the Hugo Geiger Prize competition, has stirred great interest in the media and among industry partners.