Video Processing Algorithm to Detect Air Gesture to Assist Wheelchair Bound People

Abstract

Depending on the disease or disability, for multiple reasons wheelchairs are used either transitory or permanent. Some Wheel chair bound people may not have upper body strength to control the wheelchair while others might have lost their complete body strength and they find difficult in controlling the wheelchair and also they find difficulties in controlling the home appliances without the external assistance. To help such wheel chair bound people this Air gesture based  wheelchair  is a way to help them in controlling their wheel chair without the assistance of others. To detect the air gesture made in air against a camera an efficient algorithm is implemented. Depending on the gestures made in air, wheelchair movement takes place. The objective of this project is to compare between the existing algorithm and developed algorithms for better speed and accuracy.