Apparatus and method for detecting a hand of the subject in real time

The invention proposes a method for detecting an image effective amount of hand and hand input through the camera. The present invention uses the detected skin area using the skin color in the skin, the input video image and a stereo image based on the distance to it. In particular, the hands detection procedure is made by the process of removing the background noise from the image, and combines the skin image and the distance image, it detects the area of ​​the actual hands from the handiwork likely valid image. The hand detection process is composed of a process of removing an area other than the skin are based on the stereo distance information from the skin image and detecting a hand region candidate and finally determine the shape of the hand at the remaining portion. Hand detection, color, stereo,