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Dothraki: Tracking Tangibles Atop Tabletops Through De-Bruijn Tori
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Schüsselbauer, Dennis, Schmid, Andreas
and Wimmer, Raphael
(2021)
Dothraki: Tracking Tangibles Atop Tabletops Through De-Bruijn Tori.
In: TEI '21: Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, February 14-17, 2021, Salzburg.
DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.44868
Abstract
Tangibles are small, graspable objects that act as input devices or physical representations of digital data. Oftentimes, it is desirable to track the position of tangibles on a surface and their relation to each other. However, outside-in tracking techniques - such as capacitive touchscreens or cameras - require setting up elaborate infrastructure and are prone to occlusion or interference. We ...
Tangibles are small, graspable objects that act as input devices or physical representations of digital data. Oftentimes, it is desirable to track the position of tangibles on a surface and their relation to each other. However, outside-in tracking techniques - such as capacitive touchscreens or cameras - require setting up elaborate infrastructure and are prone to occlusion or interference. We propose Dothraki, an inside-out tracking technique for tangibles on flat surfaces. An optical mouse sensor embedded in the tangible captures a small (36×36 pixel / 1×1 mm), unique section of a black-and-white De-Bruijn dot pattern printed on the surface. Our system efficiently searches the pattern space in order to determine the precise location of the tangible with sub-millimeter accuracy. Our proof-of-concept implementation offers a recognition rate of up to 95%, robust error detection, an update rate of 14 Hz, and a low-latency relative tracking mode.
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| Item type | Conference or workshop item (UNSPECIFIED) | ||||||
| ISBN | 978-1-4503-8213-7 | ||||||
| Title of Book | TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction | ||||||
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | ||||||
| Open Access Type | Assoc. of Comp. Machinery (ACM) | ||||||
| Place of Publication | New York, United States | ||||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter | 37 | ||||||
| Page Range | pp. 1-10 | ||||||
| Date | 15 February 2021 | ||||||
| Date of publication | 16 Feb 2021 09:44 | ||||||
| Institutions | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) > Physical-Digital Affordances (Dr. Raphael Wimmer) Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik (Prof. Dr. Christian Wolff) > Physical-Digital Affordances (Dr. Raphael Wimmer) Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Physical-Digital Affordances (Dr. Raphael Wimmer) | ||||||
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| Keywords | tracking, tangibles, de-bruijn torus, hardware | ||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science | ||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-448683 | ||||||
| Item ID | 44868 |
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