Building an application that recognizes gestures from Web Cam

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Can anyone please give me a gist of how should one develop a browser plugin or a Windows 8 app that recognizes hand gestures from the in built web camera?

The tools, the apis, the platform, some rough idea of how I should proceed would be very helpful.

Something, like when I wave my hand right, the window should swipe left.

Thanks a lot!

Posted 19-Jan-13 20:08pm

Abhishek Sha

Updated 19-Jan-13 20:09pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-13 2:10am

A browser plug-in?! You ask like the recognition itself is not a problem for you. Is it really so? :-)
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-19T20:12:00

Solution 1

Please see my comment to the question. It looks like you think this is pretty easy. Think again.

Please look at this CodeProject article: Hands Gesture Recognition[^].

—SA

Posted 19-Jan-13 20:12pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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SoMad 20-Jan-13 3:33am

I totally agree with you. Andrew Kirillov's articles are always great. Here is another article I find interesting and it makes it look simple, so maybe that is what the OP is looking for
Mouse Control via Webcam[^]

Soren Madsen

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-13 13:05pm

Thank you, Soren.
I know the work you referenced, an interesting one.
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-13 13:08pm

By the way, I knew Andrew's work for a long time, but only recently used AForge.NET for image recognition for my work, was very much pleased with robustness and performance of a good number of algorithms.
—SA

Abhishek Sha 20-Jan-13 4:30am

Thank you so much. Yes, I realise CV is very difficult, but I intend to get my hands dirty. Very good answer and comment.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Jan-13 13:05pm

You are very welcome.
Good luck, call again.
—SA