Paper Info
Title
User-Independent Detection of Swipe Pressure Using a Thermal Camera for Natural Surface Interaction
Abstract
In this paper, we use a thermal camera to distinguish hard and soft swipes performed by a user interacting with a natural surface by detecting differences in the thermal signature of the surface due to heat transferred by the user. Unlike prior work, our approach provides swipe pressure classifiers that are user-agnostic, i.e., that recognize the swipe pressure of a novel user not present in the training set, enabling our work to be ported into natural user interfaces without user-specific calibration. Our approach generates average classification accuracy of 76% using random forest classifiers trained on a test set of 9 subjects interacting with paper and wood, with 8 hard and 8 soft test swipes per user. We compare results of the user-agnostic classification to user-aware classification with classifiers trained by including training samples from the user. We obtain average user-aware classification accuracy of 82% by adding up to 8 hard and 8 soft training swipes for each test user. Our approach enables seamless adaptation of generic pressure classification systems based on thermal data to the specific behavior of users interacting with natural user interfaces.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/MMSP.2018.8547052
2018 IEEE 20th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
thermal,swipe pressure,hard,soft,natural user interface,natural surface interaction
Training set,Computer vision,Thermal,Pattern recognition,Computer science,SwIPe,Porting,Artificial intelligence,User interface,Random forest,Calibration,Test set
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2163-3517
978-1-5386-6071-3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tim Dunn110.70
Sean Banerjee29613.42
Natasha Kholgade Banerjee373.87