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RE: Liteye Thermal Imaging

From: Florian Echtler <>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:01:17 +0200 (CEST)

> Maybe you read my mind :) Just yesterday I was thinking to use an Infra Red
> camera to do gesture recognition for wearable computers. Instead of using
> camera and vison methods which are not often so robust and need a lot of
> number crunching, I thought it would be much easier to detect a hand (and
> gestures) from the body heat with IR, and be able to gesture to your
> wear-computer.
Hm, you could run into problems there. IR isn't IR all the time.
The stuff that usual CCD cameras can see is AFAIK Near Infrared or
NIR, which isn't the same as heat radiation that has a noticeably
longer wavelength. However, I managed to illuminate a pitch-dark
room using a old TV remote and have a look at the environment with
my 20 Euro ultra-cheap CCD camera.. quite funny experience :-).

Yours, Florian
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Florian Echtler - 
Skriptenreferat - Fachschaft MPI

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