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The title sounds cool, right? It would be so cool to control your mouse with your hand gestures. Image using your mouse pointer without touching the mouse.
Someone might think you as a magician you can look cool in front of your friends. This is possible by using some image processing concepts, computer vision, and python. This is my most famous python project in Github that gained popularity with 5 stars and 5 forks. Here is the link to the project.
Demonstration of Python Project With Source Code
Watch the demonstration of this python project on Github. Take a look at the consequence of the project if you find it cool you can develop it for yourself.
Work Flow of the project –
The philosophy behind this project is as follows –
- We specify the color range of interest i.e. the color of the glove.
- Using the color range we filter only objects having that color code.
- Next, we select the region of interest. The region with the maximum area in our feed. (This region of interest lies in the color range).
- Now, we associate the mouse controls with the movements of our ROI ( Region of interest, hand in this case).
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Steps to run this python project
- Prerequisite( Ignore if you have python) – As a prerequisite, you need python installed in your system. Download the compatible version of python from here.
- Run the following commands in terminal or cmd-
git clone https://github.com/globefire/Hand_detection_tracking_opencv
cd Hand_detection_tracking_opencv-
pip install -r requirements.txt
python hand_detection_tracking.pyNote from the developer(Nitin Sahu): When your palm is open you can move the mouse with your hand gestures. When you form a fist a left click is performed.
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Libraries used for this interesting python project
This project uses opencv_python, NumPy, and pyinput libraries. Here is an overview of these libraries.
- opencv_python – This free open-source library developed by intel is used to capture the feed. The feed is very important in the project, you will also need a webcam installed. You can implement the project without webcam too. You need to install the IP Webcam. Comment down in this artice for a detailed explanation.
- NumPy – We use this powerful mathematical library to define kernels. These kernels are essential to filter the region of interest. NumPy is also used to maintain the color range of interest.
- PyInput – This is the cherry of the cake here. We use this library to perform mouse pointer operations like moving it, performing clicks.
Let’s see the explanation of the code now.
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Walkthrough of Python Code –
- Importing python modules and creating necessary instances.
We need to create instances of the modules imported to use them. The explanation of instances like kernel Open, kernel Close is mentioned in the script.
2. Capture feed and filter it
Here we detect only regions within the color range of our interest. Then we remove the noises from this region by applying morphology.
And select the region with the maximum area as our controller.
3. Perform mouse operations
After filtering the region of interest, we decide when to move the mouse pointer and when to perform a click.
If the area of our control(our palm) lies in an integer range we consider it as an open palm. Else we consider it a first.
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Concluding – Mouse control with hand gestures
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