Simple Hand Gesture Recognition to control the VLC media player 
A project by :
Samkit Shah 
Hasit Mistry 
Anuj Deshpande

Background : This was a project me and 2 other friends did for a project competetion in our first year(freshman) year of computer engineering .
In this we used a C# application for color detection available here :
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/139628/Detect-and-Track-Objects-in-Live-Webcam-Video-base
The application we used is available under the CPOL (Code Project Open License) on the above link

We added a few features to it so that it could control the VLC media player . For this we used Sendkeys , which is a utility in Windows to simulate keyboard events . refer following link for more details about Sendkeys
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.aspx