A program that uses computer vision to detect hand gestures, used for controlling movie players

Nov 13, 2021 1 min read

HandGestureDetection

This program uses a Haar Cascade algorithm to detect the presence of your hand, and then passes it on to a self-created and self-trained Convolutional Neural Network with can classify select gestures, allowing you to use it with a media player to pause/unpause and adjust the volume.

Frameworks used: Tensorflow, OpenCV, NumPy

HandGestureDetection_video.mp4

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