The problem VLC Controller using Hand Gesture Recognition solves

This project intends to facilitate the process of controlling(Pause, Play, Volume up, Volume Down, Mute) a video player by mere hand gestures without getting into the rigmarole of pressing buttons or tapping onto the screen. This can be assimilated into our day to life such as in presentations.

Challenges we ran into

While trying to elicit hand area from the frame, face pixels were also getting scanned so we had to block it. We overcame it by differentiating between the face and hand using opencv functions.

Threshold value determination was another deterrence which required multiple tests.

VLC media player can be controlled via terminal commands but envoking those commands with python only was an intervention which was solved by importing OS library.