Hand Gesture Control

Description

Control your computer mouse using hand gestures detected from your webcam in real-time.

Features

• Real-time hand detection using MediaPipe
• Mouse cursor control with index finger
• Click gesture by bringing thumb and index finger together
• Works with any webcam

Requirements

• Python 3.10 or earlier (MediaPipe compatibility)
• opencv-python
• mediapipe
• pyautogui
• numpy

Installation

py -m pip install opencv-python mediapipe pyautogui numpy

Usage

py hand_control.py

Press 'Q' to quit the application.

How It Works

• The index finger (landmark 8) controls mouse movement
• Bringing thumb (landmark 4) close to index finger triggers a click
• Uses 21 hand landmarks detected by MediaPipe

Project Structure

Hand-Gesture-Control/

├── hand_control.py

├── hand_landmarker.task

└── README.md

Author

Renad Eng

License

MIT