A Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition System for Daily Information Retrieval from Internet

Nowadays people are used to get daily information from Internet such as weather condition, news and financial information, among others. Though, in order to receiving these daily information, users have to repeat same mouse and keyboard actions, inducing waste of time and inconvenience. In order to improve these situations, we propose in this paper a system design that can easily get daily information without mouse and keyboard actions and make people´s life more convenient and easier. In this proposed system, we have implemented an approach that provides daily information retrieved from Internet, where users can operate this system with his hands´ movements. Once selected the function by hand gestures, the system will report action information to users by synthetized speech. In a typical family, since each member has different requirements and needs, the system utilizes face recognition to identify each user, bringing up personalized services to each user. In this paper, we use PCA method to recognize faces as also hand gestures, and then a number of hand gestures and system controls are acquired and stored into this system. Results from a set of experiments indicate that the proposed system in a family environment with small-scale of face recognition show good performance as also good result in hand gesture recognition.