Mouse Cursor Control Using Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition

Hand gestures are the most common way of interaction among humans in the physical world. Gestures are used in everyday life to interact with objects around us. Hand gesture is becoming the most comfortable alternative technique to replace the conventional mouse. Herein, we report the development of a dynamic hand gesture user interface that tracks and recognizes in real time based on color segmentation and recognition. Operation such as file dragging, right and left clicks and scrolling up and down has been studied. The colors are calibrated in order to make sure that no other similar shades of color from the background interfere during the process.