Hand tracker
Hello All
I'm looking for a Max object type handtracker capable of capturing hand movements filmed by an external camera.
Does anyone know where to find such devices?
Any help welcome!!!
AB
Hello
Thanks for reply.. Just a small problem : I'm looking for a Max object (the best would be a compressed copy of the patch) that can be used directly in a patch (with the .mxo file also). The links you gave me apparently concern handtrackers intended for web use...
To my knowledge, there is no all-in-one image-based handtracking object like what you could find for faces in the cv.jit package.
The link I provided shows two options, both based on the Google Mediapipe stuff, which is basically a set of tracking tools aimed for low-power devices like mobiles. There are two ways to run them in Max, either through the [jweb] object, either through nodejs using [node.script].
I think it is somewhat possible to use this entirely offline, but that requires you to download resources that gets fetched online by the code and make some changes to that code to make it get these resources locally instead of online.
If you want a more integrated solution, the only thing I can think of is to use a Leapmotion or another handtracking device and use the Ultraleap package. This is not image-based and require dedicated hardware but you'll also probably get much better result.