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https://github.com/cmauri/eviacam

webcam based mouse emulator
https://github.com/cmauri/eviacam

accessibility camera linux mouse-emulation windows wxwidgets

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                                 Enable Viacam

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                         a webcam based mouse emulator



 About

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Enable Viacam (eviacam) is a mouse replacement software that moves the pointer

as you move your head. It works on standard PCs equipped with a web camera. 

No additional hardware is required. Based on the award winning Facial Mouse 

software. 



 Supported platforms

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GNU/Linux

Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7



 Instructions 

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(NOTE: as of version 1.4, the instructions manual is included in the software)



First install and configure your web camera before using eViacam. It's very 

important to configure your camera in manual exposure mode and adjust this 

parameter to get about 25 fps or more. Most modern cameras can deliver 30fps. 

Please check your web camera manual when necessary.



Once installed run evicam (evicam.exe for Windows). The application should 

open, automatically detect your camera and begin streaming the live video. 



Place the camera to get a frontal view of your face. The width of your face in

the image should be a third of the width of the frame. Centre the tracking box

around your face either moving the camera or displacing the on-screen blue box 

with the mouse (clicking at the corner).



Enable the tracking function from the File menu. Try moving your head and see 

the result. You should adjust the sensitivity (X and Y axis speed) from the 

options dialog.  You should be able to reach all the screen area with the mouse

pointer.



For clicking simply stop the pointer over the desired position. In few moments 

a click will be generated automatically (you can adjust the dwell time in the 

options dialog). You can use the docked window at the top of the screen for 

selecting the different kinds of clicks.



Command line flags:



    [-d] enable debug mode



 Build instructions

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See INSTALL file.



 Notes

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- Asturian (Bable) support



The current stable version of wxWidgets (2.8.12, May 2013) doesn't support 

Asturian language yet, but it seems that support has been added to development

version. So, if you want enable Asturian language support, you need the latest

wxWidgets development snapshot and should uncomment the line before compiling

    // #define ENABLE_ASTURIAN

in

    src/langnames-utf8.h

Note that this file use special encoding.



 License

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eViacam is released under the GNU/GPL license.

See the COPYING file for details on program's licensing.



 Author

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 (c) 2008-13 Cesar Mauri Loba (cesar at crea-si dot com)



Please see the AUTHORS and THANKS files for information about other 

contributors.



Acknowledgements and awards

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In 2012 Enable Viacam has been awarded a second prize in VI Premio Vodafone 

a la Innovación en Telecomunicaciones.



This software has been developed with the support of different collaborators

and sponsored by:

    - Consorcio Fernando de los Rios (Junta de Andalucía)

    - Secretaría de Telecomunicacions i Societat de la Informació del 

      Departament de Governació i Administracions Públiques de la Generalitat

      de Catalunya

    - Associació Provincial de Paràlisi Cerebral (APPC) de Tarragona.



Thanks to everyone in the APPC for his/her collaboration in testing and 

particularly to users who have collaborated actively, including Ruben, Gloria,

Cristina and many many others. Thank you all.



 Links

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http://viacam.org

 - Enable Viacam website



http://www.crea-si.com

 - CREA Software Systems site



http://www.wxwidgets.org

 - wxWidgets toolkit homepage



http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/

 - Open Computer Vision Library homepage



http://www.innosetup.org

 - Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs