Implementation of Air Gesture Interface for Wheelchair Control

Abstract

Physical disability is not considered as a curse anymore, due to the advancements in technology. Several devices have been lunched are proposed to keep these people to lead a normal life. This project is one such attempt to help the people who have got their legs amputated or lost their limbs due to birth defects or accidents. The aim of this project is to design and develop an air gesture interface to control electrical appliances and wheel chair using finger extraction algorithm and also use image processing. Image processing is a method to perform some operations on an image, in order to get an enhanced image or to extract some useful information from it. It is a type of signal processing in which input is an image and output may be image or characteristics/features associated with that image. Nowadays, image processing is among rapidly growing technologies. It forms core research area within engineering and computer science disciplines too.