Mouse Control Using Hand Gestures

This paper describes research efforts towards new approach for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and to control the mouse cursor movement and click events of the mouse using hand gestures. The applications of real time hand gesture recognition in the real world are numerous, due to the fact that it can be used almost anywhere where we interact with computers. Hand gesture depend upon camera based color detection technique. This method mainly focuses on the use of a Web Camera to develop a virtual human computer interaction device in a cost effective manner. Current methods involve changing mouse parts such as adding more buttons or changing the position of the tracking ball. Instead, our method is to use a camera and computer vision technology, such as image segmentation and gesture recognition, to control mouse tasks (left and right clicking, double-clicking, and scrolling) and we show how it can perform everything as current mouse devices can.