Proposal of Cursor Operation Method by Facial Movements for the Handicapped

Abstract

In recent years, the number of people with physical disabilities has been on the rise, with about half of them being physically disabled limb. A physically disabled person is a person with a physical disability that interferes with daily life, such as missing or malfunctioning fingers. This study focused on the use of computers in daily life. A person with a limb disability used a PC.Earlier studies that made "eye contact", "voice input", "facial expressions using a 3D camera". Those problems are the need to keep the distance between the face and the camera constant, the inability to protect privacy when people are around, and that 3D cameras are difficult and expensive to install. In this study, by using a webcam as input and machine learning, image processing techniques. Developing a system that allows a handicapped person to operate a computer with only facial movements without the use of arms or hands. We also evaluated the operability, improving the problems of previous studies.