Coruja Remote

Coruja Remote is a universal, multimodal remote control developed by FalaBrasil Group at Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil. Conventional, universal remote control devices or apps on the smartphone, force the use of hands by the user, which can be cumbersome or even impossible, specially for people with special needs. Coruja Remote accepts both voice commands and head poses as input commands, which turns itself a good -- and maybe the only one -- solution for visually or motor impaired people.

HPE stands for Head Pose Estimation

Instructions: Compilation and Usage

On desktop/original/ dir, you may do the following to compile:

$ mkdir -p desktop/original/build
$ cd desktop/original/build
$ cmake ..
$ make

And to execute:

$ ./hpe_remote

To Install OpenCV Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install \
	build-essential cmake git python-dev python-numpy \
	libgtk2.0-dev pkg-config libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev \
	libtbb2 libtbb-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libjasper-dev libdc1394-22-dev \
	gstreamer1.0-plugins-base libgstreamer1.0-0 libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-* \
	libavresample-dev libavresample1

Citation

If you ever use this code please cite the paper as the following:

Cassio T. Batista, Erick M. Campos, and Nelson C. Sampaio Neto. 2017. A Proposal of a Universal Remote Control System Based on Head Movements. In Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC 2017). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 10 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3160504.3160516

@inproceedings{Batista17,
    author    = {Batista, Cassio T. and Campos, Erick M. and Neto, Nelson C. Sampaio},
    title     = {A Proposal of a Universal Remote Control System Based on Head Movements},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
    series    = {IHC 2017},
    year      = {2017},
    isbn      = {978-1-4503-6377-8},
    location  = {Joinville, Brazil},
    pages     = {2:1--2:10},
    articleno = {2},
    numpages  = {10},
    url       = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3160504.3160516},
    doi       = {10.1145/3160504.3160516},
    acmid     = {3160516},
    publisher = {ACM},
    address   = {New York, NY, USA},
    keywords  = {Assistive Technology, Head pose estimation, mean opinion score, universal remote control},
}