Mouse Design Using Image Processing for Disabled

Abstract

This paper presents a method to control pointer with the help of camera for a person who is not able to control the pointer with hands. Physical problems result from brain paralysis are the most dominant obstacles for pointer control. This paper aims to control pointer with the help of human-computer interaction technologies instead of hands. The proposed design is similar to common pointer control. According to disability condition, people can choose the usage of the system because of the adjustability of the system. One can control the pointer by wearing a colored wristband or any item on body parts like arms, feet or any other moving part of the body. The designed system requires software, a camera, and a table lamp. The working principle of the system is inferring information from camera and transforming this information to pixels to control the pointer on the screen. In this paper, computer vision system was combined with Java class to control the pointer. When the camera gets the first snapshot from a real-time video, first, the software finds the location of the colored item on the screen then moves the pointer towards to location. In this real-time system, clicking is a problem because of the physical inabilities. In order to solve this problem, we use another colored item on the field vision of the camera. According to the location of the second object, the software decides about left or right clicks.

Bi̇lgi̇sayar Görüşü İle Renk Ayirma

“…Çelik, in his study titled -"Mouse Design Using Image Processing for Disabled", discussed the issue of developing a mouse that can be controlled with the help of a camera [4].…”