Rehabilitation of patients with motor disabilities using computer vision based techniques

Abstract

In this paper we present details about the implementation of computer vision based applications for the rehabilitation of patients with motor disabilities. The applications are conceived as serious games, where the computer-patient interaction during playing contributes to the development of different motor skills. The use of computer vision methods allows the automatic guidance of the patient’s movements making constant specialized supervision unnecessary. The hardware requirements are limited to low-cost devices like usual webcams and Netbooks.

Keywords

• computer vision, rehabilitation, skin detection, OpenCV, QT.