Methods and systems for controlling a device using hand gestures in multi-user environment

An apparatus comprising a processing device coupled to a memory storing machine-executable instructions thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processing device, cause the apparatus to:

• receive a frame of a video;
• process at least a portion of the frame to detect a first user visible at a first location in the frame;
• detect a second user visible at a second location in the frame;
• use a virtual gesture-space generation subsystem to define a first virtual gesture-space corresponding to a first region of the frame proximal to the first location;
• process the first region using a gesture recognition subsystem to recognize a first hand gesture and generate a label indicative of a gesture class for the recognized first hand gesture;
• apply a priority ruleset to determine that the first hand gesture has priority;
• and
• in response to determining that the first hand gesture has priority, initiate a first action of the apparatus corresponding to the first hand gesture.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having machine-executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by a processing device of an apparatus, causing the apparatus to:

• receive a frame of a video;
• process at least a portion of the frame to detect a first user visible at a first location in the frame;
• process at least a portion of the frame to detect a second user visible at a second location in the frame;
• use a virtual gesture-space generation subsystem to define a first virtual gesture-space corresponding to a first region of the frame proximal to the first location;
• process the first region of the frame using a gesture recognition subsystem to recognize a first hand gesture and generate a label indicative of a gesture class for the recognized first hand gesture;
• apply a priority ruleset to determine that the first hand gesture has priority;
• and
• in response to determining that the first hand gesture has priority, initiate a first action of a computer corresponding to the first hand gesture.