Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Gesture Recognition for your Computer /*from scratch*/

Step 1.

What you need:

Virtual Box
Virtual Box Extension Pack
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Ubuntu VM (tried it on 12.04)

Need to install Extension Pack. Then goto devices -> USB -> enable Camera/unknown device

Note: I am trying this using integrated camera in Lenovo T420. Please check if camera is easily detectable from Windows Host. If not, then fix that first.

Once the camera has been attached to the Ubuntu VM inside Virtual Box, check the camera settings using cheese.

Step 2.

What you need.

install libgtk2.0-dev and pkg-config.
Open CV source code. Install directly from the source webpage:
http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/linux_install/linux_install.html


Step 3.

All the Hand Gesture code in the world that you will need to get it going :D

http://www.intorobotics.com/9-opencv-tutorials-hand-gesture-detection-recognition/