Hand Gestures and Speech Mapping of a Digital Camera for Differently Abled

This paper aims to present an approach to facilitate differently abled people to operate a digital camera. This approach will enable them to enjoy photography and videography as a profession. The approach is to design a standard interface that can be controlled through speech or customized hand gestures that differently abled person can make. The speech or hand gestures are mapped to adjust the settings of camera and scrolling through camera menus e.g. setting the exposure triangle, enabling the digital filters, adjusting the white balances and other different shooting modes in a digital camera.