https://github.com/krishbharadwaj5678/palmeter
Palmeter is a real time hand tracking tool which detect multiple hands and measure the distance between them.
https://github.com/krishbharadwaj5678/palmeter
computer-vision cv2 cvzone distance-calculation gesture-recognition hand-detection hand-tracking measurement mediapipe opencv python real-time realtime-processing tracking
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Palmeter is a real time hand tracking tool which detect multiple hands and measure the distance between them.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/krishbharadwaj5678/palmeter
- Owner: KrishBharadwaj5678
- Created: 2025-06-01T17:23:26.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-06-01T18:09:37.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-17T08:07:28.890Z (12 months ago)
- Topics: computer-vision, cv2, cvzone, distance-calculation, gesture-recognition, hand-detection, hand-tracking, measurement, mediapipe, opencv, python, real-time, realtime-processing, tracking
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 29.4 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# ✋ Palmeter
**Palmeter** is a Python powered real time hand tracking tool that detect multiple hands and calculate the **distance between them**.📏
---
## 🌟 Features
| Feature | Description |
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| ✋ Multi Hand Detection | Detects **two hands** in real time using MediaPipe |
| 📏 Palm Distance Calculation | Calculates **distance between palms** |
| 🎯 Real Time Display | Dynamically displays distance on the screen |
| 🖼️ Visual Overlays | Draws hand landmarks for better understanding |
| 🔁 Continuous Tracking | Continuously updates hand positions frame by frame |
| ⚡ Lightweight Performance | Runs fast even on low spec machines using only CPU |
| 🧪 Easy to Extend | Clean codebase ready for gesture recognition |
---
## 🛠️ Tech Stack
| Technology | Description |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🧠 MediaPipe | Hand landmark detection |
| 🎥 OpenCV | Real time computer vision library |
| ⚙️ CvZone | Simplifies hand tracking |
| 🐍 Python 3.x | Programming language |
---
## 🚀 Installation
1. Clone the repository:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/KrishBharadwaj5678/Palmeter.git
cd Palmeter
````
2. Install dependencies:
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
3. Run the script:
```bash
python app.py
```
---
## 🤝 Contributing
We welcome contributions to **Palmeter**!
1. **🍴 Fork the repository**
2. **📥 Clone your fork**
```bash
git clone https://github.com/KrishBharadwaj5678/Palmeter.git
cd Palmeter
```
3. **🌿 Create a new branch**
```bash
git checkout -b feature/your-feature-name
```
4. **🛠️ Make your changes**
5. **✅ Test your changes**
6. **💾 Commit your changes**
```bash
git add .
git commit -m "Add feature XYZ or Fix bug ABC"
```
7. **🚀 Push to your fork**
```bash
git push origin feature/your-feature-name
```
8. **📬 Create a Pull Request (PR)**
- Go to your fork on GitHub and click **Compare & pull** request.
- Describe your changes clearly and submit the PR.