Enhanced Media Player using Face Recognition, Hand Gestures and Voice Detection

Abstract

When watching a video on a computer, many interruptions can distract the user away from the system, e.g., a laptop or a desktop. This causes an important part of the video to be missed. We are building up a media player which is one step ahead of the usual media players. It plays and pauses the video by identifying the client’s face, utilizing a web camera. If the user is looking at the screen, then the video is not interrupted. In case if the user is not looking, and the system couldn’t detect the user’s face, then it immediately stops the video. We are adding additional functionality to control other features of our enhanced media player, such as increasing and decreasing the volume, forwarding, and backwinding the video, using hand gestures and voice detection.