Gestures are the most common way of interaction for physically challenged people. Owing to this, many researchers are interested in the direction of automated hand gestures recognition. Major applications include extremely wide range: from sign language to robot control or from virtual reality to intelligent home systems. In addition, these enable deaf and dumb to interface with machine in a more natural way. As a result, immense endeavours have been done in this domain and this article, therefore, reviews the major researches in a comprehensive manner.

Gesture Recognition; Artificial Neural Networks; Computer Vision; Classification

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