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Gesture-based media player
Playback you control with your hands: hand tracking recognises gestures and maps them to media actions.
Built byAhsan NadeemAbout this project
The challenge
Control media playback with your hands instead of a keyboard or mouse.
The approach
Most players assume a keyboard, mouse or remote within reach. This one watches for the hand instead. The application is written in Python: MediaPipe's hand-tracking model finds the hand in each camera frame and returns the positions of its landmarks, the application reads those positions as gestures, and each gesture is mapped to a media-control action, so the player responds while the hand moves.
The outcome
A working gesture-controlled media player, built as Ahsan's final-year project, that turns real-time computer vision into a simple way to control playback without touching anything.
Inside the product.
A look at the screens. Drag the front one aside or use the arrows to flip through.
- gesture-media-player / the player
The player (1 / 2)
How it's built, layer by layer.
From what people see down to what it runs on, with the stack behind each layer.
gesture-media-player · architecture
Vision
- MediaPipe
- Hand found in each camera frame
- Landmark positions read as gestures
Application
- Python
- Gestures mapped to media actions
- Playback control
What shipped.
The capabilities that went live, one card each.
Hand tracking
MediaPipe follows the hand in real time, frame by frame.
Gesture recognition
The positions of the hand's landmarks are recognised as distinct gestures.
Media control
Each gesture maps to a media-control action, so playback follows the hand.
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