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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
Sensor Kinect in a telepresence application
A.D.F. Martins, J.M.A. Lourenço, T.R. Patrício & A.R. de Alexandria
Instituto Federal do Ceará, Ceará, Brazil
ABSTRACT: Move sensors are becoming objects of interest within several areas of study and applica-
tion. Actually, the most successful example of this kind of sensor is Kinect developed by Microsoft, which
revolutionized the market of motion detection sensors by its capacity of map the body and recognize
gestures in a single device. Telepresence is defined as the experience of the presence in an environment by
means of a communication medium. ...