A Study on Interactive Table that Converges Technology and art for Communication

Abstract

This research proposes the graphic system based on the computer vision using fingertips. It is the integrated system of graphic to the part that tracked the fingertips after reading the images of hands combined with artistic concept. This work of art being introduced is a graphic expression based on the screen and interactive media art for modern people who experience absence of communication and personal relationships that became estranged socially.1)2) Upon putting hand on the manufacture interactive table, it extracts the fingertips as feature points through adaptively suitable oval extraction method considering geometric features of hands. To project the graphic in the input image of camera, precise extraction and tracking of feature points of fingertips are important, and this thesis is about the explanation of that technology. Although and art has been separated for some time, the intimate communication between the two will take on a leading role for this academic field during the current fusion era, just as the word technology originally takes it base from the Greek word tekhne, which means art.