Hand gesture recognition has become one of the key techniques of human-computer interaction HCI.
Suvery of human-computer interaction development based on hand posture and gesture recognition
Toward that end, Canonical has created an open source gesture recognition engine and defined a gesture API that provides a way for applications to respond to users' gestures.
Put in some special gesture recognition, and you have the beginnings of fun games like those available for PlayStation2.
Skip forward to 2006, when Apple filed for a patent for an onscreen keyboard, gesture recognition and a virtual scroll wheel.
Monocular hand gesture recognition systems usually model a human hand as a pixel or a blob by which the motion of the whole hand are analyzed and the appearance features are extracted.
Next month, Microsoft will begin shipping Kinect, a $150 add-on for its Xbox gaming consoles, which uses gesture recognition to allow people to play games with body motions instead of controllers.
