%0 Journal Article %T Hand Gesture Recognition: A Literature Review %A Rafiqul Zaman Khan %A Noor Adnan Ibraheem %J International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications %D 2012 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Hand gesture recognition system received great attention in the recent few years because of itsmanifoldness applications and the ability to interact with machine efficiently through human computerinteraction. In this paper a survey of recent hand gesture recognition systems is presented. Key issues ofhand gesture recognition system are presented with challenges of gesture system. Review methods of recentpostures and gestures recognition system presented as well. Summary of research results of hand gesturemethods, databases, and comparison between main gesture recognition phases are also given. Advantagesand drawbacks of the discussed systems are explained finally %K Hand Posture %K Hand Gesture %K Human Computer Interaction (HCI) %K Segmentation %K Feature Extraction %K Classification Tools %K Neural Networks. %U http://airccse.org/journal/ijaia/papers/3412ijaia12.pdf