Hand Gesture Recognition for Physical Impairment Peoples

International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering

© 2017 by SSRG - IJCSE Journal

Volume 4 Issue 10

Year of Publication : 2017

Authors : P.Dhivya Bharathy, P.Preethi, K.Karthick, S.Sangeetha

10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V4I10P102

How to Cite?

P.Dhivya Bharathy, P.Preethi, K.Karthick, S.Sangeetha, "Hand Gesture Recognition for Physical Impairment Peoples," SSRG International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering , vol. 4,  no. 10, pp. ):6-10 , 2017. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488387/IJCSE-V4I10P102

Abstract:

Physically disabled and mentally challenged people are an important part of our society that has not yet received the same opportunities as others in their inclusion in the Information Society. Therefore, it is necessary to develop easily accessible systems for computers to achieve their inclusion within the new technologies. This paper presents a project whose objective is to draw disabled people closer to new technologies. It presents a vision-based user interface designed to achieve computer accessibility for disabled users with motor impairments. The interface automatically finds the user’s face and tracks it through time to recognize gestures within the face region in real time and also implement vision based hand gesture recognition system for Natural Human Computer Interface. Hand tracking and segmentation are the primary steps for any hand gesture recognition system. The aim of this project is to develop robust and efficient hand segmentation algorithm where three algorithms for hand segmentation using different color spaces with required thresholds have were utilized. Hand tracking and segmentation algorithm is found to be most efficient to handle the challenges of vision based system such as skin color detection, complex background removal and variable lighting condition. Noise may contain, sometime, in the segmented image due to dynamic background. Tracking algorithm was developed and applied on the segmented hand contour for removal of unwanted background noise.

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Tracking algorithm was developed and applied on the segmented hand contour for removal of unwanted background noise.

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