A Novel Approach to Design a Customized Image Editor and Real-Time Control of Hand-Gesture Mimicking Robotic Movements on an I-Robot Create

Abstract

Image processing and computer vision are considered as one of the most promising as well as exciting domains of modern day engineering. Equipped with concepts of artificial intelligence and some very advanced algorithms and functions to deal with challenges of processing of images as well as to mimic gestures, these domains of engineering prove to be one of the star attractions of highest level engineering and technology. This paper deals with some very basic image processing functions and algorithms and the concept of gesture mimicking robots. Matlab based customized image editor can be made quite easily by enthusiasts of image processing and a robotic platform called 'iRobot Create' can be used to perform gesture imitations.