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OpenCV Hand Tracking
Simple hand tracking with OpenCV - turns a circle a different color when a tracked hand gets close.
Setup
First, in a terminal, navigate to the folder this example is in, then create a virtual environment in the folder venv
python -m venv venv
Activate the virtual environment - packages will install into your venv instead of globally, so you can try different examples that require different versions of packages without clashes
source venv/bin/activate
Install required packages as listed in requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the example
python opencv-handtracking.py
When you’re done, you can exit the virtual environment by running
deactivate
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Adapted from https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2021/07/building-a-hand-tracking-system-using-opencv/