Hand Tracking and Gesture Recognition with OpenCV

This repository contains an simple implementation of computer vision techniques to track hand motions and recognize hand gestures using OpenCV.

Introduction

The project aims to provide a comprehensive demonstration of hand tracking and gesture recognition using computer vision. It utilizes the OpenCV library and the HandTrackingModule from the cvzone library for hand tracking.

Implementation

The project has been extended to include hand gesture recognition functionality. The Python script has been updated to detect various hand gestures such as thumbs up, peace sign, and OK sign.

Requirements

• Python 3.10
• OpenCV
• cvzone

Usage

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/eshansurendra/handTrackWithOpenCV.git

2. Install the required dependencies:

   pip install opencv-python
   pip install cvzone

3. Run the Python script:

   python hand_tracking.py

Gesture Recognition

The project currently recognizes the following gestures:

• Thumbs up
• Peace sign
• OK sign

You can extend the gesture recognition functionality by adding more checks in the Python script.

References

• OpenCV: https://opencv.org/
• cvzone: https://github.com/cvzone/cvzone