Survey on Static and Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Techniques

Ophelia M, Keerthijith P

Abstract: A hand gesture recognition system provides a natural way of non-verbal communication. Human Computer Inter-action mostly involves hand gestures. Vision-based hand gesture recognition techniques have many advantages over traditional devices, giving users a comfortable and more intuitive way of communication between a human and a computer. Hand gestures are of two types: Static hand gestures and Dynamic hand gestures. Hand gestures which can be either static or dynamic, for human computer interaction is an area of active research and with many numerous possible applications. This survey describes different systems used for gesture recognition. This paper presents a literature review on various gesture recognition methods.

Keywords: Cyber-Glove, Dynamic gesture, Human-Computer Interaction, Gestures, Posture, Skin color detection, Static gestures