Marker less Hand Gesture Tracking using Smart Phones

Abstract

Most of today's small developer forms of mixed reality involves the use of markers to anchor virtual objects in the real world. However, the exponential increase of today's modern hardware in computing power, which can be further increased thanks to the advent of cloud computing, has led to new possibilities not realized before. The researchers' interest then for this study is to harness this increased computing power in knowing how the digital medium could be used to immerse one's self into a completely new environment such as simulated realities as another research into the field of synthesis of congruent technological paradigms. In this paper, the researchers demonstrate how modern tools can fuel a mobile phone such that it can perform a marker-less tracking (QR and AR Code free) and mimic hand gestures similar to what Microsoft Kinect© and Leap Motion© can do while only relying on the mobile phone's camera and presented as under the domain of Mixed Reality, which is a combination of Augmented and Virtual Reality. Also discussed are the improvements and benefits of this new method compared to other developments in this area.