Sixth Sense Technology
Definition of Sixth Sense Technology
Sixth Sense Technology integrates
digital information into the physical world and its objects, making the
entire world your computer. It can turn any surface into a touch-screen
for computing, controlled by simple hand gestures. It is not a
technology which is aimed at changing human habits but causing computers
and other machines to adapt to human needs. It also supports multi user
and multi touch provisions. Sixth Sense device is a mini-projector
coupled with a camera and a cell phone-which acts as the computer and
your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. The
current prototype costs around $350. The Sixth Sense prototype is used
to implement several applications that have shown the usefulness,
viability and flexibility of the system
Introduction of Sixth Sense Technology
'Sixth Sense' is a wearable
gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with
digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact
with that information the hardware components are coupled in a pendant
like mobile wearable device. The Sixth Sense prototype is comprised of a
pocket projector, a mirror,colored marker and a camera. The camera,
mirror and projector is connected wirelessly to a blue tooth smart phone
device that can easily fit into the user's pocket.A software then
processes the data that is collected by the capturing device and
produces analysis.The software that is used in sixth sense device is
open source type
Gesture Recognition
It is a technology which is aimed
at interpreting human gestures with the help of mathematical algorithms.
Gesture recognition technique basically focuses on the emotion
recognition from the face and hand gesture recognition. Gender
recognition technique enables humans to interact with computers in a
more direct way without using any external interfacing devices. It can
provide a much better alternative to text user interfaces and graphical
user interface which requires the need of a keyboard or mouse to
interact with the computer. Interfaces which solely depends on the
gestures requires precise hand pose tracking. In the early versions of
gesture recognition process special type of hand gloves which provide
information about hand position orientation and flux of the fingers. In
the SixthSense devices colored bands are used for this purpose. Once
hand pose has been captured the gestures can be recognized using
different technique's. Neural network approaches or statistical
templates are the commonly used techniques used for the recognition
purposes. This technique have an high accuracy usually showing accuracy
of more than 95%. Time dependent neural network will also be used for
real time recognition of the gestures
APPLICATION
The sixth sense technology finds a
lot of application in the modern world. The sixth sense devices bridge
the gap by bringing the digital world into the real world and in that
process allowing the users toiu interact with the information without
the help of any machine interfaces. Prototypes of the sixth sense device
have demonstrated viability, usefulness and flexibility of this new
technology. According to the words of its developers the extend of use
of this new device is only limited by the imagination of human beings
The sixth sense recognizes the objects around us and displays the
information relating to those objects in a real time environment. The
sixth sense technology allows the user to interact the information
through hand gestures. This is a quiet efficient way compared to the
text and graphic based user interface. It has the potential to form the
transparent user interface for accessing the information around us
