Hand gesture-based user interface for controlling mobile applications

Abstract

Nowadays, mobile devices have become an essential element of life for every individual. The use of mobile devices and applications vary from person to person. The user interaction mechanism in mobile devices has changed from keypads to touchpads. People prefer to do multitasking while using mobile devices which have created a need to find more natural ways of interacting with mobile devices. Visual image processing is one of the areas that can help to implement such natural methods of interactions using various gestures of the body as input to control not only mobile devices but the various applications while performing multitasking. Here, the key challenges include recognition of gestures and implementing controlling mechanism. This paper describes the use of our previously implemented methods for static and real-time hand gesture recognition to communicate and control the applications on mobile devices through hand gestures.