Human-Computer Interaction in Games Using Computer Vision Techniques

A primary goal of virtual environments is to support natural, efficient, powerful and flexible human-computer interaction. But the traditional two-dimensional, keyboard- and mouse-oriented graphical user interface is not well-suited for virtual environments. The most popular approaches for capture, tracking and recognition of different modalities simultaneously to create intellectual human-computer interface for games will be considered in this chapter. Taking into account the large gesture variability and their important role in creating intuitive interfaces, the considered approaches focus one’s attention on gestures although the approaches may be used also for other modalities. The considered approaches are user independent and do not require large learning samples.