Hand Tracking and Gesture Control

Using the previous largest contour found - in my case, the hand. Finding the midpoint of the countour that being the top of the palm. This was done using moments, specifically 0th power moments, which, when used, gave the center of the contour. This approach required it to be centered within the frame,e and so I switched to using Central Moments that were not reliant on the x and y position of the contour. Effectively creating a palm detector. After some testing, I realized it would not be effective when the hand is upside down ( palm facing down) or sideways. The palm detector approach would be obsolete unless I used a setup previous to it. Instead, I pivoted the approach to using CNN.