29. The apparatus according to claim 18 , where the processor is further programmed to: define a configurable resolution threshold for image processing; and adjust the configurable resolution threshold.
18. An apparatus for hand position detection, comprising: a camera; and a processor programmed to: extract a feature set associated with hand gesture detection and hand pose inference from at least one input image received via the camera, where in being programmed to extract the feature set associated with hand gesture detection and hand pose inference from the at least one input image received via the camera, the processor is programmed to measure brightness gradients in multiple directions across the at least one input image, and generate image pyramids from the measured brightness gradients, and extract pixel intensity and displacement features and scale invariant feature transforms (SIFT) features using the generated image pyramids; infer a hand pose type using a trained multiclass support vector machine (SVM); and approximate the hand pose using inverse kinematics (IK) optimization.