Visual Interaction Systems | Nokia Research Center

The Visual Interaction Systems team aims to make a paradigm shift to the next generation user interface (UI). Visual interaction solutions and systems is an active area of research that focuses on how humans can better work with devices through one or more collaborative cameras. For this to happen, there must be enabling visual technologies, and related visual user interface.

State-of-the-art visual interaction is implemented through touching UI by pen and non-touching UI by camera separately, the team's target is to make them merged for creating uniform visual interaction platform. Till now, the team achieved a number of breakthroughs including shoot-to-translate, continuous Chinese handwriting recognition and face detection and recognition, among others. All the achieved breakthroughs have attracted global attention, and related productization is being deployed through cross-discipline cooperation inside Nokia.

Research topics

Image experience
Visual interaction and multi-touch user interface
Visual algorithms and image recognition
Learning-based machine intelligence
Mixed reality

Publications

Yanming Zou, Kun Yu and Kongqiao Wang. Continuous Chinese Handwriting Recognition with Language Model. The 11th Internaltional Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2008). Montreal Canada, August 2008.

Hao Wang, Kongqiao Wang, Affective Interaction Based on Person-Independent Facial Expression Space, Neurocomputing, Vol 71/10-12 pp 1889-1901, 2008

Anbang Yao, Guijin Wang, Xinggang Lin, Hao Wang. Kernel Based Articulated Object Tracking with Scale Adaptation and Model Update. The 2008 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. March 30-April 4, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Lei Xu, Kongqiao Wang. Extracting text information for content-based video retrieval. The 14th Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM08). JanUARY 9-11, 2008, Japan.

Chai Xiujuan, Wang Kongqiao, Wei Luosi, Wang Hao. Hand Gesture Tracking for Wearable Computing Systems. 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). Jan. 22-25 2008, Portugal.

Wang Kongqiao, Zou Yanming, Wang Hao. 1D bar code reading on camera phones. International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG). Vol.7 No.3 (2007) pp529-550

Contact

Wang Kongqiao, Team Leader

Team members