OpenFrameworks based machine vision application for tracking a human hand on a contrasting background, and to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to classify static hand poses.

This application requires the following addons:

• ofxConvexHull
• ofxCv
• ofxGrt
• ofxGui
• ofx.JSON
• ofxOpenCv
• ofxOSC
• ofxPerPixelSegment

To install them for your environment, Google their names, find their GitHub repository, and clone those repositories in .../of_v0.9.3_osx_release/addons

Steps for getting this project running:

• install OpenFrameworks 0.93
• install all the addons listed above

Then you have two options:

• Clone this repository into .../of/apps/myApps/
• Open 'ofxRGBHandTracK.xcodeproj'
• Use the OFXCodeMenu to add all the addons to a the project
• Build (make sure to build 'ofxRGBHandTracK' not 'openFrameworks')

or

• use the openFrameworks Project builder to make a new project; include all the necessary addons
• replace the three files inside the generated projects .../src folder with the ones from this repository