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Webcam AI Virtual Mouse

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🎯 About

Takes in live webcam video feed, detects a single hand, recognizes your hand gestures and control the mouse in real-time. To move the mouse, close your hand except for the pointer finger and move. You will see the mouse move across your screen in accordance with your hand motion. To do a mouse click, bring up you middle finger alongside your index, and tap them together. You will see the mouse perform a click on your screen.

✨ Features

✔️ Python3;
✔️ OpenCV;
✔️ Hand Detection and Gesture Recognition;
✔️ Real time control of your mouse input;

🚀 Technologies

The following tools were used in this project:

• Python3
• cvzone and AI
• OpenCV

✅ Requirements

Before starting 🏁, you need to have Git and Python3 installed.

🏁 Starting

# Clone this project
$ git clone https://github.com/cynthiachiu/webcam-AI-virtual-mouse

# Access
$ cd webcam-AI-virtual-mouse

# Initiate the python virtual environment
$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

# Install packages
$ pip install -r requirements.txt 

# Run the project
$ python main.py

# A frame will appear with your webcam feed. Hold your hand up and it will recognize you hand gestures and control you mouse in real-time.

📝 License

This project is under license from MIT. For more details, see the LICENSE file.

Made with ❤️ by cynthiachiu

 

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