SmartFinger: an augmented finger as a seamless 'channel' between digital and physical objects

Connecting devices in the digital domain for exchanging data is an essential task in everyday life. Additionally, our physical surrounding is full of valuable visual information. However, existing approaches for transferring digital content and extracting information from physical objects require separate equipment. SmartFinger aims to create a seamless 'channel' between digital devices and physical surrounding by using a finger-worn vision based system. It is an always available and intuitive interface for 'grasping' and semantically analyzing visual content from physical objects as well as sharing media between digital devices. We hope that SmartFinger will lead to seamless digital information 'channel' among all entities with a semblance in the physical and digital worlds.