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Gesture Control

This project is a gesture-controlled music player that allows you to control music playback using simple hand gestures in front of your webcam. It uses computer vision to detect hand positions and interprets gestures to play, pause, or switch tracks.

✨ Features

• Real-time hand tracking with MediaPipe
• Control music playback using gestures
• GUI built with PyQt6
• Local .mp3 music playback using pygame
• Optional GUI buttons for manual control

✋ Supported Gestures

Gesture	Action
✌️ V Sign	Play Music
✊ Fist	Pause Music
👉 Thumb Right	Next Track
👈 Thumb Left	Previous Track

🧱 Project Structure

gesture_control/
│
├── main.py              # Entry point
├── modules/
│   ├── camera.py        # Webcam frame capture
│   ├── gesture.py       # Gesture detection
│   ├── music_player.py  # Music playback control
│   ├── controller.py    # Gesture → Action mapping
│   └── gui.py           # PyQt6 GUI
└── music/               # Folder for your MP3 files

⚙️ Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Contents of requirements.txt:

opencv-python
mediapipe
PyQt6
pygame

▶️ How to Use

1. Place your .mp3 music files in the music/ folder.
2. Run the program:

python main.py

Perform a gesture in front of your webcam and watch it control your music!

🧪 Example Usage

• Show ✌️ to start music
• Show ✊ to stop music
• Point 👉 to skip to next
• Point 👈 to go back

🔗 View the project on GitHub