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What is "the gesture follower" ?
The gesture follower is a set of Max/MSP modules to perform gesture recognition and following in real-time. It is integrated in the toolbox MnM of the library FTM (see dowload). The general idea behind it is to be able get parameters by comparing a performance with an ensemble of prerecorded examples.
The gesture follower can guess the two following questions:
- which gesture is it ? (if you don't like black and white answers, you can get "greyscale" answers: how close are you from the recorded gestures ? )
- where are we ? (begining, middle or end ...)
What is a "gesture" anyway ?
A gesture here can be any temporal curve, sampled at relatively low frequency compared to sound. Typically, from 1000 Hz to 0.001 Hz.
Documentation
Examples
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Tutorial Workspace : overview
Get an overview of the interface functions.
1st STEP : Record gestures
Let’s start with two simple drawings : a triangle and a circle.
2nd STEP : Compare
Draw a figure and then see how similar it is with your two referent drawings.
3rd STEP : Observe
Pay attention to the curves below. They represent the velocity in X and Y axis of the mouse trajectories. That give a useful temporal information on how you realize your drawing.
Connection Avec EyesWeb XMI
EyesWeb XMI, the open platform for real-time analysis of multimodal interaction, can be connected to Max/Msp throughout the OSC protocol (Open Sound Control). OSC is open, message-based protocol which was originally developed for communication between computers and sythesizers (cf. wiki).