There has been a greater development of virtual technologies in the recent arena. Some of them increased the computing performances of the functioning systems. One of those highly used virtualized technology is the virtual mouse. The moments that the mouse detects are converted into the pointer movements on a display that enables the management of Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a computer platform. This paper advocates an approach for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) where a real-time camera is used in handling the cursor movements. The Virtual mouse colour recognition program acquires real-time images continuously which will then go through a series of filtration and transformation. As the process completes the program will apply an image processing technique to capture the coordinates of the position of the targeted colours from the changed frames. Then a set of different combinations of functions are operated and then by analyzing the set of different colours thereby a program will execute the mouse function and then it is translated as an actual mouse for user’s machine.

Virtual Mouse, Graphical User Interface, Colour Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction, Calibration Phase, Recognition Phase

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