Navigation of PowerPoint Using Hand Gestures

Dnyanada R Jadhav, L. M. R. J Lobo

Abstract: Computer applications require interaction between human and computer. This interaction needs to be unrestricted and it made challengeable accounts as compared to traditional input devices such as keyboard, mouse, pen etc. Hand gestures are used in daily life while communication. They are more natural in interaction, compared with those devices mentioned above. Human computer interaction becomes easy, with use of hand as a device. Use of hand gestures to operate machine would make interaction interesting. Gesture recognition has gained a lot of importance. Hand gestures are used to control various applications like VLC media player, robot control, gaming, virtual mouse etc. Use of gesture makes interaction easy, convenient and does not require any extra device. Vision and audio recognition can be used together. But audio commands may not work in noisy environment. The presented developed system uses hand gestures to control power point navigation. Here both static and dynamic gestures are used together for navigation. Use of gestures would make the presenter to handle the presentation more easily.

Keywords: Hand gestures, skin segmentation, active fingers, finger count