PyHand-Earth 0.1.5

Google Earth navigation driven by gesture recognition

PyHand-Earth

Google Earth navigation driven by gesture recognition

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Start
• Usage
• Team
• License

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Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• Compatible with Ubuntu 20.04

Dependencies needed:

• Google Earth desktop (will be installed automatically if it is not already present in the environment)
• apt-get dependencies required to make pip installed packages work together

$ sudo apt-get install python3-tk

Needed for pip installed pyautogui

$ sudo apt-get install libxcb-xinerama0

Required in order to start PyQt, which is pip installed

$ sudo apt-get install wmctrl

Necessary for us to manage certain windows

$ sudo apt-get install scrot

needed in order to locate images in the Google Earth application so that we can make sure it behaves properly

Setup

• This section will include all the code necessary to get PyHand-Earth going

Requirements:

• TensorFlow 2.2.0
• OpenCV 4.2.0.34
• matplotlib 3.2.2
• Keras 2.4.2
• pyautogui 0.9.50
• PyQt5
• psutil 5.7.0

install all requirements for PyHand-Earth with:

$ pip3 install PyHand-Earth

OR

install them individually with:

$ pip3 install opencv-python==4.2.0.34

$ pip3 install matplotlib==3.2.2

$ pip3 install --upgrade tensorflow==2.2.0

$ pip3 install Keras==2.4.2

$ pip3 install pyautogui==0.9.50

$ pip3 install PyQt5

$ pip3 install psutil==5.7.0

Start

To Start PyHand-Earth:

• Navigate to the virtual environment folder, pip install pyhand-earth, then cd lib/python3.8/site-packages/PyHand-Earth/tyler/testing/new, then python3 main_qt.py

$ python3 main_qt.py

• Two windows will show up:

  • Google Earth Pro: Targeted window to control with hand gestures

  • Gestures and buttons window : Demonstrating different possible gestures and buttons to start the OpenCV window video, Stop it and Exit the program which closes all the windows.

Initial view

Starting VIdeo

Usage

• This section will go over all menu buttons and functionalities.

DISCLAIMER: Optimization of both of the programs has to be improved in order to make Google Earth more responsive. Model must be further developed to improve accuracy.

Buttons

DISCLAIMER: These are only preliminary hand gestures to demonstrate something in ... something out

To Start Video:

To Stop Video:

To Exit the Program:

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Team

• The PyHandlers team was formed for "CIS4930 - Performant Python Programming" from the University of Florida.

Formed by:

• Grant H. Wise
• Tyler Allen
• Vanessa Orantes Murillo
• John Liu
• Ying Xu

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License

• MIT license

• Copyright 2020 ©