Gesture Controlled Media

Goal

Build something with a camera.

Result

"Gesture Media Control" is a Python script that enables control of your computers media via easy to remember hand gestures.

The hand gestures enable you to volume up/down, skip, go back, pause, max volume.

Requirements (versions I am using)

• Webcam/PiCamera
• Python (3.8 - 3.12.6)
• opencv-python (4.8.1.78)
• mediapipe (0.10.21)
• pycaw (20251023, for Windows)
• pulsectl (24.12.0, for Linux systems using PulseAudio)
• pynput (1.8.1)
• gesture_recognizer.task (Download Here).

gesture_recognizer.task

This is a pre-trained model that recognizes hand gestures from the camera frames captured by OpenCV. Download it and place it next to main.py.

Actions

1. Closed_Fist: Play/Pause Audio

2. ILoveYou: Max Volume

3. Pointing_Up: Next Song

4. Victory: Replay/Previous Song

5. Thumb Up: Volume Up

6. Thumb Down: Volume Down