Gestures based wireless robotic control using image processing

Abstract

Many people in this world are known to gestures, a powerful communication medium amongst humans. They say actions speak louder than words. Communicating with gestures is a powerful method. Industrial as well as robots used for home purpose are often controlled by remote controllers. The use of gestures as a way to control can help a lot providing ease and can be more useful for the handicapped. Gestures provide a separate complementary modality to speech for expressing ones ideas. Furthermore, Image processing is one of the most effective method used to process image signals. The main purpose of gesture recognition research is to identify a particular human gesture and convey information to the user pertaining to individual gesture. Sign language recognition from hand motions or postures is an active area in gesture recognition research for Human Computer Interaction (HCI). This paper aims to brief the practical approach of robotics through an effective method of image processing using gestures as a mode of control.