For this project we have chosen to create a visual gesture recognition system to control multiple different lights, similar to a smart home system. The primary goal is to process a live camera feed to recognize the number of fingers that the user is holding up to identify the light that we wish to control, then recognize a thumbs up or thumbs down gesture to control the light state. 

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The primary deliverable for this project will be a program, that when connected to a live camera feed, will be able to recognize certain gestures to identify and toggle the state of different lights, which will be controlled by an Arduino that is sent commands from the main MATLAB program.