A long time ago I was part of a competition where people were presenting and building some great ideas. One such startup that really inspired me was trying to build an app to recognize ASL(American Sign Language) and PSL(Pakistan Sign Language). To no one’s surprise they won the competion, however down the line 4 years from that day, that startup now works as a event management company and provides sign language interpreters for such events.
We promise big, but we deliver small. It has been part of a norm here in Pakistan. Anyhow, since I’ve never had much experience working with Computer Vision, I decided to give it a shot and see if how hard it would be build a simple gesture recognition python script. Turns out, its not that hard. I was able to build a simple app that recognizes a few gestures.
The only dependencies are opencv-python and mediapipe. You can install them using pip:
pip install opencv-python mediapipe
Here is the code:
Enjoy!
