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motion tracking

  • Feeling like Barenboim? Check it with your FPGA!

    Today´s article shows how a group of students from Cornell University, created a hardware-software set of tools to develop and composed your own music, the Audio Composer and Conducting Suite (A.C.C.S). This virtual conducting environment platform is capable of inputting the compositions from a video camera and a keyboard or a conductor waving his/her hands…

  • Remember Playing Cowboys With A “Hand” Gun? Now It´s a Video Game

    Thanks to the work developed by a group of students at Cornell University, all you would need to do is to paint the tip of your finger in Red. This is not to fake that you are shooting that much that your finger is burning. This is because their project is based on this color.…

  • Motion-Tracking Project Lets You Be A Robot Puppeteer

    Embedded Systems Design student Annie Dai recently finished up her final project for the Spring 2013 semester at Cornell University. Based on an Altera DE-2 FPGA board, her project was designed to track realtime movement in a subject’s upper body (head, torso, right & left arms) using the DE-2, a VGA monitor, and a video…

  • Hand-Tracking Pong Game On FPGA

    Cornell University students Hanting Lu and Kedari Elety have made an FPGA-based, hand-tracking Pong game for their final class project this year. They’ve got an HTC 231x CCD camera feeding video data to their Altera DE-2 FPGA, which is processing the hand motion data and using it to control a game of Pong. You can…