Playing Chrome Trex Game with Gestures

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Play Trex Game on Chrome By Gesture Using OpenCV and Mediapipe

Hello there surfer! Since few days, I am thinking about some cool projects that can be done within some hours using Mediapipe and OpenCV in Python. In this blog, I am writing about how can we play the popular trex game by only moving our fingers in front of the camera. Many of us have played this game but none of us were interested to play. 🤣🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Well in this blog, we are going to play with with full intention.

This blog is the part of the series #7DaysOfComputerVisionProjects. Links to the blogs and videos of each projects are:

Real-time Background Changing: Video Blog
Air Mouse: Control Mouse with Gestures Video Blog
Play Trex Game With Gesture Video Blog
Auto Dino: Play Trex Game Automatically Video Blog
Gesture Based Writing Video Blog
Game: Kill The Fly Video Blog
Gesture Based Calculator Video Blog

Prerequisties

Mediapipe: Install it using pip install mediapipe.
OpenCV: It will be installed by default while installing mediapipe.
Keyboard: Not the physical one because we are simulating key events using gestures. pip install keyboard.

Once installed make sure you can use them. Just import them and see if any error pops up.

import mediapipe as mp
import cv2
import numpy as np
import keyboard

Using keyboard package is pretty easy just like mouse package. For test, we are going to simulate down and then !echo hey. I am using Jupyter Notebook hence I have to use ! to use windows commands.

# lets simulate down key and hello world
keyboard.press_and_release("!,e,c,h,o,space,h,e,y")

# !ECHO HEY

We can even use keys like control.

# lets simulate down key and hello world
keyboard.press_and_release("h,e,l,l,o,ctrl+a")

HELLO

The focus is not on the Keyboard package but to play a dino game. We will do something like gesture recognition based on the distance between certain landmarks. So lets define a method to find Euclidean distance.

def euclidean(pt1, pt2):
    d = np.sqrt((pt1[0]-pt2[0])**2+(pt1[1]-pt2[1])**2)
    return d
euclidean((4, 3), (0, 0))

5.0

Writing a Code

Step By Step

It is necessary to view the landmark position before making a gesture assumptions. Please follow the below image.

Source: Official Hands Page

Start by beginning a camera.
```
cam = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
```
Define a frame size in our case 520 rows and 720 columns.
```
fsize = (520, 720)
```
Take modules drawing_utilities and hands from Mediapipe solutions’s. As the name, drawing_utils will draw landmark here and the hands will let us work with detection models.
```
mp_drawing = mp.solutions.drawing_utils
mp_hands = mp.solutions.hands
```
Define a variable to count the frame and make a constant to check the events on those frame count.
```
check_every = 10
check_cnt = 0
```
Prepare a variable to hold last event name.
```
last_event = None
```
Now prepare a Mediapipe Hand object by giving arguments like max_num_hands, min_detection_confidence and so on. As name suggests, max_num_hands is to search up to that number of hands and min_detection_confidence is the minimum confidence threshold value of detection and below which, detected hands are discarded.
```
with mp_hands.Hands(
static_image_mode=True,
max_num_hands = 2,
min_detection_confidence=0.6) as hands:
```

Read a Camera frame.

  while cam.isOpened():
      ret, frame = cam.read()
      if not ret:
          continue

Flip the frame to look like selfie camera.
```
      frame = cv2.flip(frame, 1)
```

Resize frame to our desired size.

      frame = cv2.resize(frame, (fsize[1], fsize[0]))

Extract width and height of frame.
```
      h, w,_ = frame.shape
```
Convert frame from BGR to RGB because Hand object expects image as a RGB format.
```
      rgb = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
```
Pass the RGB image ot process module of Hand object to get the result.
```
      res = hands.process(rgb)
```

Now for each hand, we will be extracting landmarks of fingers. Like index finger’s tip, dip, middle and so on. There are overall 20 landmarks for each hand. After extracting, we need to convert it back to pixel coordinate world.

      if res.multi_hand_landmarks:
          for hand_landmarks in res.multi_hand_landmarks:
                
              index_tip = mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                  hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_TIP].x, 
                  hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_TIP].y, 
                  w, h)
                
              thumb_tip = mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                  hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.THUMB_TIP].x, 
                  hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.THUMB_TIP].y, 
                  w, h)
                
              middle_tip = mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                  hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.MIDDLE_FINGER_TIP].x, 
                  hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.MIDDLE_FINGER_TIP].y, 
                  w, h)

Now if the current count of frame is equal to the value we defined earlier, then check for events.

              if index_tip is not None:
                  if check_cnt==check_every:

If the distance between index finger’s tip and middle finger’s tip is less than 60 then consider that space is pressed. i.e touch index finger and middle finger for Jump. The value 60 will be relative to the frame size. Else, if last event is also Jump, then set last event to none.

                      if index_tip is not None and middle_tip is not None:

                          if euclidean(index_tip, middle_tip)<40: 
                              last_event = "jump"
                          else:
                              if last_event=="jump":
                                  last_event=None

If the distance between index pip, and thumb tip is less than 60 then consider that down key is pressed. i.e move thumb near to the bottom of index finger for duck. Else if last event is also duck, then set last event to none.

                      if thumb_tip is not None and index_tip is not None:
                          if euclidean(thumb_tip, index_pip) < 60: # 60 should be relative to height/width of frame
                              last_event = "duck"
                          else:
                              if last_event=="duck":
                                  last_event=None

After checking all events, set frame count to 0.
```
                  check_cnt=0
```

Finally, if current frame count has been reseted then apply the event. And increase the frame count.

        if check_cnt==0:
            if last_event=="jump":
                keyboard.press_and_release("space")
            elif last_event=="duck":
                keyboard.press("down")
            else:
                keyboard.release("down")
            print(last_event)


        check_cnt+=1

Draw each landmarks. python mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(frame, hand_landmarks, mp_hands.HAND_CONNECTIONS)

Show the frame.

      cv2.imshow("Controller Window", frame)

If Escape is pressed then close.

      if cv2.waitKey(1)&0xFF == 27:
          break

Final Code

cam = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
fsize = (520, 720)

last_event = None
check_cnt = 0
check_every = 5

mp_drawing = mp.solutions.drawing_utils
mp_hands = mp.solutions.hands




with mp_hands.Hands(
static_image_mode=True,
max_num_hands = 1,
min_detection_confidence=0.6) as hands:
    while cam.isOpened():
        ret, frame = cam.read()
        if not ret:
            continue
        frame = cv2.flip(frame, 1)
        frame = cv2.resize(frame, (fsize[1], fsize[0]))
        
        h, w,_ = frame.shape
        
        rgb = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
        rgb.flags.writeable = False
        
        res = hands.process(rgb)
        #cv2.imshow("roi", roi)
        rgb.flags.writeable = True
        
        
        if res.multi_hand_landmarks:
            for hand_landmarks in res.multi_hand_landmarks:
                
                index_dip = mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_DIP].x, 
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_DIP].y, 
                    w, h)
                
                index_tip = mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_TIP].x, 
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_TIP].y, 
                    w, h)
                
                index_pip = np.array(mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_PIP].x, 
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.INDEX_FINGER_PIP].y, 
                    w, h))
                
                thumb_tip = mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.THUMB_TIP].x, 
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.THUMB_TIP].y, 
                    w, h)
                
                middle_tip = mp_drawing._normalized_to_pixel_coordinates(
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.MIDDLE_FINGER_TIP].x, 
                    hand_landmarks.landmark[mp_hands.HandLandmark.MIDDLE_FINGER_TIP].y, 
                    w, h)
                
                if index_tip is not None:
                    if check_cnt==check_every:
                        if index_tip is not None and middle_tip is not None:

                            
                            if euclidean(index_tip, middle_tip)<40: # 60 should be relative to the height of frame
                                last_event = "jump"
                            else:
                                if last_event=="jump":
                                    last_event=None
                        
                        if thumb_tip is not None and index_tip is not None:
                            print(euclidean(index_tip, middle_tip))
                            if euclidean(thumb_tip, index_tip) < 60:
                                last_event="duck"
                            else:
                                if last_event == "duck":
                                    last_event = None
                        check_cnt=0
                
                if check_cnt==0:
                    if last_event=="jump":
                        keyboard.press_and_release("space")
                    elif last_event=="duck":
                        keyboard.press("down")
                    else:
                        keyboard.release("down")
                    print(last_event)

                check_cnt+=1

                mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(frame, hand_landmarks, mp_hands.HAND_CONNECTIONS)
        cv2.imshow("Controller Window", frame)
        
        if cv2.waitKey(1)&0xFF == 27:
            break
cam.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
                        

Finally

This is the end of our blog and I hope you learned something valuable from here. Please let me know if you found any problems or errors. There is a video version of this blog and you can watch this on YouTube too.

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Playing Chrome Trex Game with Gestures

Play Trex Game on Chrome By Gesture Using OpenCV and Mediapipe

Prerequisties

Writing a Code

Step By Step

Final Code

Finally

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