Hand Gesture Recognition ML Frameworks

Projects for recognizing and classifying hand gestures from video or sensor data to enable human-computer interaction. Does NOT include general pose detection, sign language recognition, or body gesture analysis beyond hands.

There are 42 hand gesture recognition frameworks tracked. The highest-rated is ahmetgunduz/Real-time-GesRec at 44/100 with 691 stars.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	ahmetgunduz/Real-time-GesRec Real-time Hand Gesture Recognition with PyTorch on EgoGesture, NvGesture,...	44	Emerging	691	Python
2	asingh33/CNNGestureRecognizer Gesture recognition via CNN. Implemented in Keras + Tensorflow/Theano + OpenCV	44	Emerging	1,043	Python
3	nickgillian/grt gesture recognition toolkit	36	Emerging	886	C++
4	charliegerard/gestures-ml-js [WIP] - Gesture recognition using hardware and Tensorflow.js	32	Emerging	80	JavaScript
5	pjyazdian/Gesture2Vec This is an official PyTorch implementation of "Gesture2Vec: Clustering...	29	Experimental	26	Python
6	EslamAsHhraf/Hand-Gesture-Recognition 🖐 An implementation of a machine learning model for detecting and...	24	Experimental	3	Python
7	Self-nasu/HandFlow Home Automation Using Hand-Gesture Recognition.	23	Experimental	6	JavaScript
8	gayathri1462/Controlling-Media-Player-with-Hand-Gestures-using-Convolutional-Neural-Network An application to control media player from distance using hand gestures. It...	22	Experimental	15	Jupyter Notebook
9	mboiar/gesture_controller C++ gesture controller with OPC UA support – translates hand gestures into...	22	Experimental	—	C++
10	VoidTrace001/Gesture-Recognition Real-time Gesture Recognition & Eye Tracking system using Computer Vision,...	22	Experimental	—	—
11	YoungSeng/ReprGesture The ReprGesture entry to the GENEA Challenge 2022 (IMCI 2022)	22	Experimental	16	Jupyter Notebook
12	thanhhoangvan/Hand-Gesture-Recognition-for-Unity-3D Recognition of hand actions through images	22	Experimental	1	C#
13	LinguaByte1111/Emotion-Gesture-Recognition An intelligent system capable of recognizing facial emotions and hand...	22	Experimental	—	PureBasic
14	yaxan/Naruto_Handsign_Classification Naruto Hand Gesture Recognition with OpenCV and Transfer Learning	21	Experimental	32	Python
15	PaulTreanor/OpenHands A gesture recognition system powered by OpenPose, k-nearest neighbours, and...	20	Experimental	16	Python
16	gesture-classification/gesture_classification Hand gesture classification by optomyographical sensor signals	19	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
17	celine-hsieh/Hand_Gesture_Training--yolov4 Recognize the gestures' features using the YOLOv4 algorithm	17	Experimental	5	C#
18	abdelrahmanelalfy/gesture- 🖐️ Recognize hand gestures in real time for intuitive device control and...	16	Experimental	2	Python
19	dirkzon/gesture-recognition Real time gesture recognition using OpenCV & Mediapipe.	15	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
20	majdhamad95/naruto-shadow-clone-jutsu Create real-time Naruto shadow clone effects using webcam hand tracking and...	15	Experimental	1	JavaScript
21	atarancon/HandGesture Senior Design Engineering Capstone Project	15	Experimental	1	Python
22	Future-Elite/SGMS 多场景手势智能交互控制系统	15	Experimental	6	Python
23	atarancon/HarrTrainingHandGesture Hand gesture recognition via Haar cascade classifiers deployed on Raspberry...	15	Experimental	1	Python
24	tototofu123/fingercount Finger counting gesture recognition project	14	Experimental	—	Python
25	DONVIC405/Nu-Metal-Pose-Random-Image-Detector 🖐️ Detect hand gestures in real-time and display random images with this...	14	Experimental	—	Python
26	REzero270/Hand-Gesture-Recognition ✋ Detect and count hand gestures in real-time using MediaPipe and OpenCV,...	14	Experimental	—	Python
27	Lakshy-coder/gesture-trainer Browser-based AI Hand Gesture Trainer using TensorFlow.js and MediaPipe	14	Experimental	—	JavaScript
28	AmZu1212/LeapGlove The LeapGlove Project's goal is to repurpose the LucidVR Glove in order to...	14	Experimental	—	Python
29	xun911/CIMS_sEMG_dualstreamCNN Surface electromyography based gesture recognition based on dual-stream CNN	14	Experimental	13	Python
30	sukhijapiyush/Gesture-Recognition-using-the-CNN A CNN-based hand gesture recognition project aimed at automating home...	13	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
31	SkyThonk/Play-with-Hand-Gesture With the help of OpenCV and Deep Learning CNN algorithm performing some...	13	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
32	Infineon/mtb-example-ml-gesture-classification This code example demonstrates how to perform gesture classification based...	13	Experimental	6	C
33	tkarim45/Hand-Sign-Detection Detect hand signs with OpenCV: a computer vision project for gesture...	13	Experimental	6	Python
34	SarthakRana/Comparitive-Analysis-of-various-classifiers-for-Gesture-Recognition This project uses 7 Machine Learning classifiers to recognize the gestures...	12	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
35	Riadh-Bouarroudj/Hand_gesture_recognition This project presents a deep learning-driven approach for hand gesture...	12	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
36	Gustavo-michel/HandMotion Hand tracking algorithm to detect gestures and interact with the computer in...	12	Experimental	1	Python
37	evertonsavio/tensorflow-gesture-recognition Thumbs up Thumbs down. Implementation of the MediaPipe Handpose model...	12	Experimental	3	JavaScript
38	AshaiReddy/Gesture-Recognition-using-CNNs This project focuses on various methods to design a Neural Network for TV...	11	Experimental	2	HTML
39	OussamaMadev/HandGestureReelControl A real-time reel controller powered by deep convolutional neural networks...	11	Experimental	—	—
40	AbhinavSharma07/Hand_Gesture_Recognition-Deep_Learning The objective of this project is to recognize hand gestures using...	11	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
41	Thakuma07/naruto-shadow-clone-jutsu A browser-based application leveraging MediaPipe and TensorFlow.js for...	11	Experimental	—	JavaScript
42	zakirangwala/Gesture-Recognition Created a gesture recognition web app using React JS + Tensorflow and other...	10	Experimental	1	JavaScript