Hand gesture detection and recognition using openCV
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View ArticleThe error of ‘VIDIOC_QUERYMENU: Invalid argument’
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View ArticleNeeded!!! High quality positive/negative hand pictures needed!!!
Give me your hands!!! As a new hand gesture recognition project is launched recently, there is a strong need to collect a big number of good quality hand pictures – it is a pity I have only two hands....
View ArticleWriting a simple hand gesture picture sampler for classifier training
Progresses in training a classifier for hand gesture recognition is never an easy job, one of the difficulties that needs to overcome is the collection of sample images, both positive and negative....
View ArticleA failed example of hand gesture recognition using openCV haartraining...
This example aimed to provide a good classifier that was able to recognise a flat contract palm in videos, but the results, as demonstrated in the haar performance evaluation, turned out quite...
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View ArticleHand gesture detection and recognition using openCV 2
Before the example – why haar classifiers for hand gesture detection As mentioned in one of early articles such like hand gesture detection and recognition using openCV, there are two main ways to...
View ArticleComing soon – closed palm detection in openCV
Coming soon… Due to the end of this year’s Google Summer of Code 2012 is approaching soon, the development of hand gesture detection plugin for Gstreamer is also going to be packed. As one of...
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View ArticleCollection of own hand gesture samples – the call for pictures, training...
The call for hand gesture samples Quite long time ago a call for hand gesture samples was made in here, unfortunately this call received few responses making contributions to the samples. Guess if I...
View ArticleFirst trial of classifier training – the good and bad
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View ArticleA method of detecting and recognising hand gestures using OpenCV (2)
A previous article has described a method to detect and recognise hand gestures using OpenCV, actually the c# wrapper of OpenCV called emgu CV. Details of this method can be found here a method of...
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