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ABSTRACT

This paper presents TinyMotion, a pure software approach that detects the movements of cell phones in real time by analyzing image sequences captured by the built-in camera. Typical movements that TinyMotion detects include - horizontal and vertical movements, rotational movements and tilt movements. In contrast to earlier work, TinyMotion does not require additional sensors, special scenes or backgrounds and can run on today's main-stream camera phones without hardware modification. We describe the design and implementation of TinyMotion and analyze the potential interactions that can leverage TinyMotion. Three applications and two games were created to test TinyMotion. Benchmarking results and usability study show that TinyMotion can detect camera movement reliably under most background and illumination conditions.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Input devices and strategies (e.g., mouse, touchscreen)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Theory and methods

Keywords:
camera phones, computer vision, input methods, mobile devices, mobile phones, motion estimation