I Completed my Final product!

On last Friday, I was able to complete my Final Product! Over the course of my final product's development, I faced many challenges and learned so much about machine learning, data preprocessing, debugging, TensorFlow, OpenCV, and many other concepts. After overcoming these challenges and working for hours and hours, I have been able to create a program that can recognize 10 different hand gestures: Victory sign, Index finger, Only fingers, Thumb, Gun sign, Fist, Rock! sign, Hi Five sign, L sign and Cool! sign. Upon recognizing each of the hand gestures, it can perform a different function that is already preprogrammed. For example, it opens up Chrome when I show a fist in front of my webcam. I was also able to describe and document all of my program and you can find my Final Product information on my Final Product page on this website.

This project can have a multitude of applications including helping disabled people and people who use sign language to perform functions on their devices hands-free in instant time. Furthermore, this program can be expanded to recognize 100s of gestures and can perform many functions using the libraries in Python such as creating and sending an email. This project was an amazing experience and has helped me develop my skills and knowledge in machine learning and specifically, computer vision!

So see you next week, same time, same place.