Gesture recognition using FPGA and OV7670 camera

Gesture recognition has lured everyone's attention as a new generation of HCI and visual input mode. FPGA presents a better overall performance and flexibility than DSP for parallel processing and pipelined operations in order to process high resolution and high frame rate video processing. Vision-based gesture recognition technique is the best way to recognize the gesture. In gesture recognition, the image acquisition and image segmentation is there. In this paper, the image acquisition is shown and also the image segmentation techniques are discussed. In this, to capture the gesture the OV7670 CMOS camera chip sensor is used that is attached to FPGA DE-1 board. By using this gesture recognition, we can control any application in a non-tangible way.