1. A virtual mouse driving method using a video camera comprising: keeping track of an input gesture input with the video camera; removing a background portion of the input gesture image and extracting a left-hand region and a right-hand region from the input gesture image whose background portion has been removed; recognizing a left-hand gesture and a right-hand gesture from the extracted left-hand region and the extracted right-hand region, respectively, and recognizing gesture commands corresponding to the recognition results; and executing the recognized gesture commands.