Abstract:
This project aims to control the TV through hand gesture without remote control, two important problems are taken into consideration while determining the gestures, first one is , choosing simple , expressive, and limited number of gestures to make it easy to be memorized . the second one is recognizing these gestures.
A solution to these problems is that , users have six gestures to handle television control , the open hand for switch on the TV , the closed hand to switch off the TV, the other two gestures are for increment and decrement operations ( for both volume and channel) the fifth on to switch from the channel mode to volume mode , and the sixth gesture for no operation mode. While the other issue which is how the computer can recognize the gesture its solved using artificial neural network.
We made a prototype of this system using a computer , webcam, interfacing circuit, parallel port and television, knowing that a black background was adopted . the system was implemented and tested successfully with an accuracy of 95 %.
