Abstract
In this thesis, we develop a real time finger pointing system. The novelty of our system is that we can develop a real-time single plane pointing system and stereo vision pointing system. Our system consists of (1) hand tracking (2) hand shape extraction (3) finger orientation calculation and (4) finger line finding. In the experiments, we show that our system will analyze each frame of video input within about 1/15 second and achieve a near-real-time system. The pointing accuracy of our system is measured by the success rate of 100 pointing of which the results are acceptable. In the experiments, we show that the success rate of our system is above 80%.