Quantum Phantom turns your smartphone into a non-touch wireless mouse

The Quantum Phantom is a prototype program that allows users to manipulate their desktops with a simple webcam. It’s also expanded the concept to smartphones that effectively turns any camera-equipped handset into a wireless mouse.

This is steps to change a smartphone into a wireless mouse from benwu232′s blog:

Prerequesite:

1. A computer installing Linux and with WIFI available, the faster, the better. My laptop has Kubuntu 10.04, 64-bit installed and its CPU is i330, 2.13GHz. I tried QP win version and smartphone but failed. After searching on the web, it is said that the ffmepg of opencv has some problem on windows, so win version has no such function.
2. I compiled OPENCV with my configuration, including options of TBB for multi-core and FFMPEG for video processing and so on. I also installed those libraries.
3. A smartphone with IpWebcam or similar installed. I am using an Android phone. IpWebcam can make it as a stream server which changes the video taken by its camera into a motion jpeg stream and send out. I don’t have an IPhone but I think there must be some similar apps in APPStore, so IPhone should be OK with the corresponding apps.
Now, I do the following steps to change the phone into a non-touch wireless webcam.

Steps:

1. Connecting the phone and the PC by WIFI. I’ve tried two methods, one is using the phone as an AP and PC to connect it; the other is using a wireless router as an AP and connecting the phone and the PC to the router by WIFI. Both are OK.
2. Running IpWebcam on the phone to start the video strem server.
3. Running QP on PC with server address as a parameter. Then QP can receive the video stream and process it. Now I can use it as a wireless mouse to control the cursor.

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