GStreamer Project: OpenCV Gesture Detection

Improve the OpenCV based plugin for hand gesture detection, and add more OpenCV related plugins.

Interested Mentors:

• Thiago Santos
• Nicolas Dufresne
• Luis de Bethencourt

Required Skills:

• GStreamer Plugin API
• Digital Video Theory
• OpenCV

Notes

OpenCV has a fast scaler (that isn't color correct, but good enough to do the processing when you process images, you convert them into monochrome, a extra step would be to scale down before sending to the image processor

Student Notes:

Related links:

• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tree/ext/opencv
• http://anikettatipamula.blogspot.ro/2012/02/hand-gesture-using-opencv.html
• http://s-ln.in/2013/04/18/hand-tracking-and-gesture-detection-opencv/