Methods and systems for hand gesture-based control of a device

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:
• determining a virtual gesture-space defined in a received input frame of a sequence of frames, the virtual gesture-space being associated with a primary user from a ranked user list of one or more users and the virtual gesture-space being smaller than a total field of view captured in the received input frame;
• processing only the virtual gesture-space in one or more frames in the sequence of frames to detect and track a hand;
• using a hand bounding box generated by detecting and tracking the hand, perform gesture classification to determine a gesture input associated with the hand;
• wherein the determined gesture input causes processing of a command input associated with the determined gesture input.

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

• determine a virtual gesture-space defined in a received input frame of a sequence of frames, the virtual gesture-space being associated with a primary user from a ranked user list of one or more users and the virtual gesture-space being smaller than a total field of view captured in the received input frame;
• process only the virtual gesture-space in one or more frames in the sequence of frames to detect and track a hand;
• using a hand bounding box generated by detecting and tracking the hand, perform gesture classification to determine a gesture input associated with the hand;
• and
• output the determined gesture input to cause processing of a command input associated with the determined gesture input.