Robust Hand Detection via Computer Vision

Question

I am currently working on a system for robust hand detection.

The first step is to take a photo of the hand (in HSV color space) with the hand placed in a small rect

Answer 1

I have worked on something similar 2 years ago. You can try with Particle Filter (Condensation), using skin color pixels as input for initialization. It is quite robust and fast. The way I applied it for my project is at this link. You have both a presentation (slides) and the survey. If you initialize the color of the hand with the real color extracted from the hand you are going to track you shouldn't have any problems with black people.

For particle filter I think you can find some code implementation samples. Good luck.