An Efficient Real Time Method of Fingertip Detection

Fingertips detection has been used in many applications, and it is very popular and commonly used in the area of Human Computer Interaction these days. This paper presents a novel time efficient method that will lead to fingertip detection after cropping the irrelevant parts of input image. Binary silhouette of the input image was generated, using HSV color space based skin filter and hand cropping was performed based on skin pixel histogram of the hand image. The cropped image would be used to determine the fingertips in the image frame.