Hand gesture commands for slide view control in a PC based presentation

Abstract

In this paper,hand gesture commands for slide view control in a PC based presentation system are addressed. First of all, a set of natural hand gestures is defined which will replace the mouse functions to control the slide view on the screen in a PC based presentation system. The advantages of using the natural hand gestures include:(1)no more disturbance during the slide presentation by abolishing the mouse, (2)no need of holding a laser pointer or a stick for pointing at the screen and (3)ease in using the hand gesture commands for slide view control. Our system consists of four components:geometric configuration setup, hand segmentation,hand gesture recognition, and slide view control by hand gesture commands, experimental results on using the hand gestures for slide presentation are reported.