Abstract: Gestures are a major form of human communication. Hence gestures can be found to be an appealing way to interact with computers, since they are already a natural part of how people communicate. A primary goal of gesture recognition is to create a system which can identify specific human gestures and use them to convey information for controlling device and by implementing real time gesture recognition a user can control a computer by doing a specific gesture in front of a video camera which is linked to the computer.