Smart Media Player on Gesture Recognition using Real Time Image Processing

Abstract

This paper proposes an advanced media player which is capable of playing and pausing video by identifying if the user is viewing at the display or not. When the user is viewing towards the computer display, then the media player will play the video. On the other hand, if the user is not looking at the screen or looks away from it or the player is unable to identify the user’s face, then the video stream will be paused with immediate effect. It can also be used to control different highlights of the media player viz., volume up and down, forward and rewind and all using different hand gestures by real time image processing.