Introduction

Introduction and background

Hand gesture is useful for delivering information that cannot be conveyed through speech or type from humans. In this project, we developed a 2D hand gesture recognition method which is able to identify simple static hand gestures like “stop”, “point”, ”okay” and “up” etc. Hand gesture recognition can be applied to the area of security, remote control, and assistance of certain groups of disabled people(e.g. translating sign language). Video games industry is an early adopter of this technology because it provides a more intuitive way for humans to interact with computers.