Hi guys, My name is Cesar Mauri. Since 2003 I'm working with machine vision and alternative computer access close to the people of the Cerebral Palsy Association in Tarragona (Spain). I've just launched an (my first) open source project called Enable Viacam (eViacam) based on the former commercial application Facial Mouse.
http://viacam.org eViacam is a mouse replacement software that moves the pointer as you move your head. It works on standard PCs equipped with a web camera. No additional hardware is required. I.e. it enables computer access for people with severe disabilities with good head control. eViacam is in production/stable stage. Inherits most code from the commercial version which has been successfully tested with handicapped people with ALS, cerebral palsy, tetraplegia among others. To my knowledge, eViacam is the first serious attempt to bring this kind of assistive technology to the open source community. Development isn't completed yet, but the released version (0.9) is fully functional and includes most of the commercial version features. In the future the open source version will substitute the commercial one. eViacam is being developed using wxWidgets and opencv1. I use debian etch as development platform (I'm debian user since 1997) and MS Win (yes also runs for this). I feel that eViacam it is a good candidate to be included in the mainstream distribution. Comments are welcomed. Regards, -- César Mauri Loba [email protected] CREA Sistemes Informàtics http://www.crea-si.com C/ Sant Isidre 4 2 C 43120 Constantí (Tarragona) Spain Tel. +34 655 405 915 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
