Hand Motion: Mapping Gestures Through Recognition

In our everyday dealings with friends, family and co-workers, gestures are crucial as they offer an easy and innate way of communicating. From simple hand movements to greet someone or acknowledge friends from a distance, gestures form part of our daily engagements. Everybody, recognizes gestures as the extension of our body language. If this concept is applied to human-computer interaction, it becomes possible to have hand gesture detection through vision-based technology. In this case, certain movements are performed before a camera with each movement corresponding to specific actions.