✋ Finger Counter — OpenCV + MediaPipe Project

A simple yet powerful AI-powered tool that counts how many fingers you're holding up using your webcam in real time!
Built with Python, OpenCV, and MediaPipe, this project is a great starting point for learning gesture recognition.

🖼 Demo

🎯 What It Does

This project detects your hand and counts the number of fingers you're showing (from 0 to 5) using real-time webcam input.
It then displays the finger count on the screen with a live overlay.

🚀 Features

✅ Real-time finger counting with MediaPipe
✅ Displays the current number of fingers held up (0–5)
✅ Detects both left and right hands
✅ Easy to use — no setup beyond your webcam
✅ Great for learning computer vision basics!

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🧠 What You'll Learn

• How to use MediaPipe Hands to detect hand landmarks
• How to identify which fingers are up based on joint positions
• Drawing UI overlays with OpenCV
• Real-time computer vision interaction with Python

🔧 Getting Started

How to run:

1. Install the required dependencies, globlally or by creating a virtual environment:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run the application:

   python virtualMouse.py

📍Dependencies

• OpenCV
• MediaPipe
• Numpy

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