Suggestions for techniques for hand gesture recognition?

Question

I am making a project on hand gesture recognition.

I am storing a pre captured gestures of hand in a folder and then I'm capturing gestures from the webcam and storing it in the other folder. I am not using a database now and I am not able to compare the images from both the folders to get the correct gesture.

What should i do? How should i develop a interface between webcam and pc ie what language should i use?

Can any one suggest various techniques for hand gesture recognition?

Answer 1

Here is an article about image recognition (including source code) that you might find helpful.

Answer 2

You may be interested in reading about OpenCV (wikipedia)

(Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions for real time computer vision.

Also of interest may be HandVu, which implements OpenCV

This software collection implements a vision-based hand gesture interface.

I've not actually used HandVu, but it might make interesting reading for you :)