Development Of A Non-Contact Tongue-Motion Acquisition System

We present a new tongue detection system called SITA, which comprises only a Kinect device and conventional laptop computer. In contrast with other tongue-based devices, the SITA system does not require the subject to wear a device. This avoids the issue of oral hygiene and removes the risk of swallowing a device inserted in the mouth. In this paper, we introduce the SITA system and an application. To evaluate the system, a user test was conducted. The results indicate that the system could detect the tongue position in real time. Moreover, there are possibilities of training the tongue with this system.