Volume-Hand control
Harshit Sharma
Section-E1903 roll A32
Electronics and communication
Lovely professsional university
Jalandhar, Punjab
harsh10273@gmail.com
Abstract— In this project I’ve got built an OpenCV
application within which a user can control his system's
(laptop/pc) volume by making some Hand Gestures.
I. INTRODUCTION
Gesture recognition helps computers to grasp anatomy
language. This helps to make a strenuous link between
humans and machines, instead of just the fundamental text
user interfaces or graphical user interfaces (GUIs). during
this project for gesture recognition, the human body’s
motions are read by computer camera. the pc then makes use
of this data as input to handle applications. the target of this
project is to develop an interface which can capture human
hand gesture dynamically and can control the quantity level.
WORKING PRINCIPLE
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2)
The camera in our device is employed for this project. It
detects our hand with points in it so because it can see the
gap between our thumb fingertip and index tip. the gap
between the points 4 and eight is directly proportional to
the quantity of device.
The OpenCV Volume Control With Hand Detection Python
OpenCV was used to generate Python. We'll develop a
Volume Controller with OpenCV to manage a computer's
volume in this Python OpenCV Project With ASCII paper.
We'll start with hand tracking and then look for a volume-
changing gesture with our hand using hand landmarks.
Because this project is module-based, we'll be using a hand
module that has already been built and makes hand tracking
a breeze.
WORK PROPOSED AND ANALYSIS
Hand gestures are a hot topic in the vision community,
with applications ranging from sign language identification
to human-computer interface. There was one of the first
tracking systems that focused on articulated hand
movements.
A 27-degree-offreedom hand could be tracked at 10Hz
using their technique, which extracted point and line data
from grayscale photos.
It has trouble tracking in the face of occlusions and
complex backdrops, and it necessitates a manual
initialization step before tracking can begin.
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The majority of hand tracking research has thus far
concentrated on 2D interfaces from an interaction standpoint.
In [Zhang01], a finger was tracked across a planar region
with low-cost web cameras in order to manipulate a target..
B. EXISTING SYSTEM
ANN for Accelerometer Data Gesture Recognition. The
authors presented a classification and gesture recognition
application based on an Artificial Neural Network.
The Wii remote is used to recognise gestures, and it
rotates in the X,Y, and Z axes. Gesture recognition is
divided into two tiers to reduce computing costs and
memory use. User authentication is done at the first level
for gesture recognition.
A gesture recognition method based on accelerometers is
used. In the second level, a fuzzy automata technique has
been presented for gesture recognition without any signal
processing. The data was normalised and filtered using
the k-means and Fast Fourier transform algorithms once
the motions were recognised. This Dynamic Bayesian
Network is used.
The accuracy of recognition has grown to 95%
This project was created with Python; the code was
organised and planned in Python utilising OpenCV and
NumPy components.
OpenCV works with a wide range of programming
languages, including C++, Python, and Java, and is
available on a variety of platforms, including Windows,
Linux, OS X, Android, and iOS. For high-speed GPU
tasks, interfaces based on CUDA and OpenCL are also
being actively developed. OpenCV's Python API is
known as OpenCV-Python. It combines the greatest
features of the OpenCV C++ API and the Python
programming language.
NumPy is the most important Python package for
scientific computing. It includes, among other things, the
following
• a powerful N-dimensional array object
• sophisticated (broadcasting) functions
• tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code
• useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random
number capabilities
 Hand Gestures must be performed for quality output,
and the webcam must be turned on while the software
is running. Static gesture recognition is employed
here, and it recognises the shape of the hand and
returns a response.
METHODOLOGY/APPROACH
• Recognize hand landmarks
• Calculate the distance between the tips of your thumb
and index finger.
• Map the distance between the tips of your thumb and
index finger with the volume range. In my situation,
the distance between the tip of my thumb and the tip
of my index finger was between 30 and 350
millimetres, and the volume range was between -63.5
and 0.0 millimetres.
• To escape, hit the 'Spacebar' key.
ADVANTAGES:
• Simple to use
• hassle-free
• enjoyable to use
• more engaging
DISADVANTAGES:
• Cannot be utilised over long distances
• occasionally inaccurate
• requires a good camera
• may be confused by two palms
Main Libs Used:
 OpenCV lib (for image processing and drawing)
 Mediapipe lib (for Hand Tracking)
 Pycaw lib (to link up with the system's volume).
REFERENCES
• Real-time Hand Gesture Recognition System by
Akira Utsumi, TsutoniuMiyasato, Fumio
KishinoandRyohei Nakatsu.
• W. T. Freeman and M. Roth, Orientation
histograms for hand gesture recognition.
International workshop on automatic face and
gesture recognition
• Github, Research gate.