Review of hand gesture recognition study and application

Human-computer interaction is an essential part of most people's daily life. The traditional human-computer interaction mode from the original keyboard to the current mouse, joystick, and wireless input devices, greatly facilitates the interaction between people and computers and makes it easier for people to operate the computer and improve work efficiency. However, this kind of interaction mode cannot completely meet the demands of human-computer interaction due to the dependence on additional input hardware devices. Hand gesture can be defined as a variety of gestures or movements produced by hands or arms combined, it is always capable of expressing a signer’s intention, so it can act as a means of natural communication between human and machine. Studies on hand gesture recognition is very important for the development of new human-centered human-computer interaction. This paper reviewed the current study status and application of gesture recognition aiming to summarize the commonly used hand gesture recognition methods, analysis their strength and weak points, and list the challenging problems in current research of hand gesture recognition.

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