Abstract—The main aim of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is to research and develop new and simpler ways to interact with computers and many other devices as well. Hand Gesture Recognition is one such area of active research for computer scientists. In this paper, we discuss a new method for controlling the mouse movement with a camera. Our method is unique as it does not involve Fuzzy models, Hidden Markov Models, etc. for recognition. Instead we use simpler segmentation and recognition techniques for recognition of simple hand gestures.

Index Terms—Human computer interaction, hand gesture recognition.

Vivek Veeriah J. and Swaminathan P. L. are with the Dept. of ECE,Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India (e-mail:vivekveeriah@gmail.com).

Cite: Vivek Veeriah J. and Swaminathan P. L., "Robust Hand Gesture Recognition Algorithm for Simple Mouse Control," International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 219-221 , 2013.