Hand gesture pointing location detection

Gesture recognition has been implemented in many systems for different purposes. The way it is used can be different from system to system. Few used them as touch objects using sensors while few use them as pointing object where the camera is in front of the hand, but the location is being pointed by human, can be detected only if the camera is behind that person. This paper presents an automatic system to detect the location on the wall where the user is currently pointing by his hand. This is done with the detection of head and both hands. The shoulders and elbows’ locations are identified using geometry analysis to understand the current gesture of the human and finally the direction where user hand is pointing would be detected. The face was detected using Haar classifier and shoulders were estimated using the rectangle method near the head. This method does not work in poor illumination conditions and is made to detect only one person at a time. Also user is supposed to wear half sleeve or sleeveless shirt for the better segmentation.