Whiteboard has played a vital role in our education system, teachers have been using this prop to deliver the daily knowledge capsules using presentations, slide after slide, which has surely left the dusty old chalkboard at par. This whiteboard also allows presenters the ease of annotating as they continue with the slides by using marker and stuff. But this practice has been revolutionized since the introduction of touch sensitive interactive panel. The classes become more interesting and involvement of students grow stronger, the presenters hold a better control on delivering a good session. But unfortunately, it is not accessible to all due to the cost of these fancy boards, which does not help the mass. Since the usage of whiteboard has emerged as a smart classroom property and adopted by various digitally sound organizations, it is therefore in need of cost effective smarter interactive display. Therefore, in this review, the objective is to identify minimal cost of installation of an interactive whiteboard or means to achieve this ideal system preferably with the help of Computer Vision (a trending perception realistic technology in minimizing cost).

Computer vision, Image processing, IWBS, Camera, Infrared light

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