Hand Gesture Recognition using Computer Vision

The use of the gesture system in our daily life as a natural human-human interaction has inspired the researchers to simulate and utilize this gift in human-machine interaction which is appealing and can take place the bore interaction ones that existed such as television, radio, and various home appliances as well as virtual reality will worth and deserve its name. This kind of interaction ensures promising and satisfying outcomes if applied in systematic approach, and supports unadorned human hand when transferring the message to these devices which is easiest, comfort and desired rather than the communication that requires frills to deliver the message to such devices. With the rapid emergence of 3d applications and virtual environments in computer system the need for a new type of interaction device arises. This is because the traditional devices such as mouse, keyboard and joystick become inefficient and cumbersome within this virtual environments.in other words evolution of user interfaces shapes the change in the HumanComputer Interaction (HCI).Intuitive and naturalness characteristics of “Hand Gestures” in the HCI have been the driving force and motivation to develop an interaction device which can replace current unwieldy tools. A survey on the methods of analysing, modelling and recognizing hand gestures in the context of the HCI is provided in this paper.

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