Vision-Based Hand Gesture Recognition Techniques using Smartphones

Abstract

In the past few years, the computational performance of smartphone devices has seen tremendous growth. Due to which the smartphone has become a suitable platform for various computer-vision based applications which earlier was not possible. In this paper, we study various methods through which we can achieve computer vision-based hand gesture recognition natively on smartphones. If smartphones can support hand gesture recognition it can provide a new way to interact with mobile devices and overcome the hurdles of voice and touch-based user interface improving the user experience at the same time also supports other gesture-based applications. The techniques we study are mainly vision-based since camera module is present on most of the smartphones and it does not require other additional sensors or other hardware. We have compared the various methods available based on algorithms used and corresponding accuracy.