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Human Computer Interaction Through Hand Gestures for Home Automation Using Microsoft Kinect

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Gesture recognition has been an attractive area of research since a long time. With the introduction of Microsoft Kinect, hand gesture and body gesture recognition has become handy for the researchers. Here an innovative application has been presented which controls all electrical home appliances through hand gestures. The algorithm presented here is an assistive application useful for physically challenged and senior citizens. In this paper we have used Microsoft Kinect for image capturing along with some important computer vision (CV) and digital image processing techniques (DIP) for hand gesture recognition. Arduino Uno microcontroller and relay circuits are used for controlling electrical devices. The algorithm presented gives an accuracy of 88 %.

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  1. Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Smit Desai

  2. Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, Gujarat, India

    Apurva Desai

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  1. Narsinhbhai Inst. of Comp. Stud. & Mngmt, Professor and Head Narsinhbhai Inst. of Comp. Stud. & Mngmt, Kadi, Mehsana, Gujarat, India

    Nilesh Modi

  2. The University of Oklahoma, Director, Telecommunication Engineering The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA

    Pramode Verma

  3. GLS University, Dean & Faculty of Computer Technology GLS University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Bhushan Trivedi

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Desai, S., Desai, A. (2017). Human Computer Interaction Through Hand Gestures for Home Automation Using Microsoft Kinect. In: Modi, N., Verma, P., Trivedi, B. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Communication and Networks. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 508. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2750-5_3

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