Real time six degree of freedom pose estimation using infrared light sources and Wiimote IR camera with 3D TV demonstration

Ali Boyali, Manolya Kavakli, Jason Twamley

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to present the development of a tracking technology to interact with a virtual object. This paper presents the general procedures of building a simple, low cost tracking system by using Wiimote (a remote of Nintendo game console) and the Open source Computer Vision (OpenCV) software library as well as interfacing the tracking system with an immersive virtual environment (Vizard). We used an iterative position and orientation estimation (POSIT algorithm) which is optimized as an OpenCV function for extracting position parameters. We filter out the noise in the coordinate values using Kalman filters. The orientation and translation of the tracked system are then used to manipulate a virtual object created in the virtual world of Vizard. Our results indicate that it is possible to implement an inexpensive and efficient application for interacting with virtual worlds using a Wiimote and appropriate digital filters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobile and Ubiquitous Systems
Subtitle of host publicationComputing, Networking, and Services - 7th International ICST Conference, MobiQuitous 2010, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Italia Srl
Pages137-148
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783642291531
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Oct 2012
Event7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, MobiQuitous 2010 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Duration: 6 Dec 20109 Dec 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
Volume73 LNICST
ISSN (Print)1867-8211

Conference

Conference7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, MobiQuitous 2010
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney, NSW
Period6/12/109/12/10

Keywords

  • 3D TV visualization
  • 6 DOF pose estimation
  • OpenCV
  • WiimoteIR tracking

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