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Nouse®
Perceptual Vision Interface
NRC-CNRC
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Video Group | Video
Recognition Systems
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The software on this
site is for Educational and Evaluation purposes only.
It is provided for free. However, please make sure that
you have read and understood the Demonstration Software Licence
before downloading it. |
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You
will only need a webcam installed on your computer to run the
software |
Main Features
Nouse® PVI is a perceptual vision interface program that offers a complete solution to working with a computer in Microsoft Windows OS hands-free.
Using a camera connected to a computer, the program analyzes the facial motion of the user to allow him/her to use it instead of a mouse and a keyboard. As such Nouse-PVI allows a user, to perform the basic three computer-control actions:
- i) cursor control: includes a) cursor positioning, b) cursor moving, and c) object drugging - which are normally performed using mouse motion
- ii) clicking: includes a) right-button click, b) left-button click, c) double-click, and d) holding the button down - which are normally performed using the mouse
buttons
- iii) key/letter entry: includes a) typing of English letters, b) switching from capital to small letters, and to functional keys, c) entering basic MS Windows functional keys as well as Nouse functional keys - which would normally be performed using a keyboard.
The program is equipped with such tools as:
- Nousor™ (Nouse Cursor) - the video-feedback-providing cursor that is used to point
and to provide the feeling of " touch" with a computer.
- NouseClick™ - a nose-operated mechanism to simulate types of
clicks
- NouseCodes™ - configurable Nouse tool that allows entering computer commands and operate the program using head motion codes.
- NouseEditor™ - provides an easy way of typing and storing messages hands-free using face motion. Typed messages are automatically stored in Clipboard (as with
CNTR+A, CNTR+C)
- NouseBoard™ - a specially designed for face-motion-based typing
on-screen keyboard that automatically maps to the user's facial motion range.
- NouseTyper™ - a configurable Nouse tool that allows typing letters by drawing them inside the cursor (instead of using the
NouseBoard)
- NouseChalk™ - a configurable Nouse tool that allows writing letters as with a chalk on a piece of paper. Written letters are automatically saved on hard-drive as images that can be opened and emailed.
and such features as:
- Automatic focusing on the user nose and motion range calibration
- LockOnArea, Glue/Unglue mechanisms that allow to map user's motion
range onto an arbitrary windows application, which allow susing Nouse
with onscreen keyboards.
System requirements:
" Pentium IV 2 GHz or higher
" MS Windows 2000 or XP
" 1Gb RAM or more
" At least 500Mb of hard-drive space
" Installed USB camera
Required 3rd party libraries:
" · Microsoft DirectX 8 or later SDK [required for camera functionality]:
From www.microsoft.com/directx/, or directly form
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1c8dc451-2dbe-4ecc-8c57-c52eea50c20a&DisplayLang=en
" · Intel OpenCV (beta 4) Library for Windows [required for image capture and processing functionality]
From http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary or directly from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/opencvlibrary/OpenCV_b4a.exe?download
Instructions
Upon downloading the Nouse installer, click on the .exe file and it will install everything for you, after which one will find the Nouse icon on your desktop which you can click on in order to launch
Nouse.
Documentation:
Main Nouse-PVI software:
(Please always use the most recent release. Past releases are listed for
archiving only)
Other programs:
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