iPinchMe Development Continues - CamShift, Skin Histograms and Cover Flow
Posted on February 14th, 2010 by admin
Edit: New Version available.
I decided to stop using background differencing and use a skin histogram based approach combined with the camshift algorithm. Since everybody was screaming Fluidtunes, Coverflow, etc. I am testing my current development version mainly with iTunes:
Coverflow can now be controlled by a sort of waving motion. Songs are selected with the pinch gesture. Hopefully, this version of iPinchMe will soon be available for download.
So does iPinchme work with other webcams besides the iSight as well?
Currently, it selects the default video device on startup, which is on all MacBook the builtin iSight. I am planning to add a small preferences dialog where users may choose which video source to use…To answer your question: If you have a Mac with no builtin iSight, but some other USB webcam, iPinchMe should still work. If you have both, iPinchMe will use the builtin iSight.