TY - JFULL AU - Yu-Xiang Zhao and Chien-Hsing Chou and Mu-Chun Su and Yi-Zeng Hsieh PY - 2010/8/ TI - Portable Virtual Piano Design T2 - International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering SP - 1018 EP - 1022 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11330 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 43, 2010 N2 - The purpose of this study is to design a portable virtual piano. By utilizing optical fiber gloves and the virtual piano software designed by this study, the user can play the piano anywhere at any time. This virtual piano consists of three major parts: finger tapping identification, hand movement and positioning identification, and MIDI software sound effect simulation. To play the virtual piano, the user wears optical fiber gloves and simulates piano key tapping motions. The finger bending information detected by the optical fiber gloves can tell when piano key tapping motions are made. Images captured by a video camera are analyzed, hand locations and moving directions are positioned, and the corresponding scales are found. The system integrates finger tapping identification with information about hand placement in relation to corresponding piano key positions, and generates MIDI piano sound effects based on this data. This experiment shows that the proposed method achieves an accuracy rate of 95% for determining when a piano key is tapped. ER -