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Application of Head Tracking for Interactive Data Visualization

Authors:
Phillip Kilgore
Charles McCarthy
Urska Cvek
Marjan Trutschl

Keywords: human computer interaction, graphical user interfaces, interaction styles, computer vision, scene analysis, tracking

Abstract:
The utilization of head tracking in gaming and animation applications has increased due to greater availability of relevant libraries and hardware. However, its application to interactive data visualization has not followed the same trajectory. In this paper, we describe an extensible platform permitting the integration of head-tracking interactivity into data visualization software. This platform utilizes Haar classification to provide the recognition of facial features, and uses Kalman filtering to smooth transient input. We also discuss the application of head tracking to data visualization, and address its challenges.

Pages: 264 to 270

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4529

ISBN: 978-1-61208-202-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012