Gesture Recognition OpenCV ( for media player )

Question

Can someone please help me out with how exactly to start from scratch for using OpenCV for hand gesture recognition? We're basically creating a media player that can function with hand gestures (simple functions such as play, pause, volume up/down etc).

I've installed OpenCV and also EmguCV after visiting one of the links mentioned in the questions, but I need to know how exactly do I get webcam on to detect my hand and gestures.

Answer 1

There are a lot of online tutorials about using OpenCV and EmguCV for tracking and gesture recognition. I would suggest that you google for a few research papers on the subject. These will help you get started with the various solutions that you can use and improve upon.

One way would be to segment out the hand using skin detection and then find contours followed by a convex hull. There is a library called cvBlob which may help you out with tracking. To interface it with a media player, you can possibly use VLC remote interface.

OpenCV documentation is also a great place to find out about various functions which might help you out