I am new to development with Kinect, so i would need some links on how could i get the development environment set up for kinect with Windows. Also once the environment is set up, could you also help me with some links on how to start up with basic programming for kinect.
The best way to start learning Kinect Development is from the samples that come along with the SDK. These samples will let you know how to do basic operations like enabling Color Stream, Skeleton Stream or Removing Background etc.
If you are totally new to Kinect Then this series will give you a Jump Start
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Programming-Kinect-for-Windows-v2
For More detailed understanding watch these Hands on Lab for Kinect.
http://kinect.github.io/tutorial/lab01/index.html
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I am very new to Kinect programming and am tasked to understand several methods for 3D point cloud stitching using Kinect and OpenCV. While waiting for the Kinect sensor to be shipped over, I am trying to run the SDK samples on some data sets.
I am really clueless as to where to start now, so I downloaded some datasets here, and do not understand how I am supposed to view/parse these datasets. I tried running the Kinect SDK Samples (DepthBasic-D2D) in Visual Studio but the only thing that appears is a white screen with a screenshot button.
There seems to be very little documentation with regards to how all these things work, so I would appreciate if anyone can point me to the right resources on how to obtain and parse depth maps, or how to get the SDK Samples work.
The Point Cloud Library (or PCL) it is a good starting point to handle point cloud data obtained using Kinect and OpenNI driver.
OpenNI is, among other things, an open-source software that provides an API to communicate with vision and audio sensor devices (such as the Kinect). Using OpenNI you can access to the raw data acquired with your Kinect and use it as a input for your PCL software that can process the data. In other words, OpenNI is an alternative to the official KinectSDK, compatible with many more devices, and with great support and tutorials!
There are plenty of tutorials out there like this, this and these.
Also, this question is highly related.
I am planning to design gesture based virtual trial room using kinect xbox. I am new to kinetic & android application. To get started which software need to be downloaded. I downloaded kinectic SDKv2.0.
which software used to write code here. I downloaded Brekel Kinect Pro Body Trial v1.38 32bit which recognise the gesture.
to get started with gesture which platform is good.
Some people say openCV, OpenNI.I could able to differentiate between them. could someone give some idea over it.
Open kinects
Now go with Kinect Windows SDK. Nothing else needed to get the Kinect started. You can track all the joints and even Kinect device tilt motor. But I don't think that you can do anything with android. To get started you can refer to these video set since it explain starting from the device itself.
Kinect getting started
I am trying to extract 2 features from the Kinect :
Captured video - I followed this guide:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/kinectsdk/thread/4ee6e7ca-123d-4838-82b6-e5816bf6529c
and succeeded to use the kinect as webcam and then used DirectShow in order to capture the video. Works just fine.
skeleton - I use the 1.7 Kinect SDK and the skeleton feature works sweet!
The Problem: Those 2 features don't work simultaneously
Each one of them works great by itself, but they just don't work together.
I have also tried checking the captured video in Skype's video settings section, while running the Skeleton Basics in the "Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit 1.7"
Do you know why that happens and how can I fix that problem and enjoy the 2 features simultaneously?
Thanks a lot,
Guy.
this cannot be happen. I'm also working on a virtual dressing room concept and I could access the kinect joints and also the video stream too. I'm using xna so its cool with me to get the video buffer to the kinectSensor.ColorStream.Enable(ColorImageFormat.RgbResolution640x480Fps30);
kinectSensor.SkeletonStream.Enable(new TransformSmoothParameters()
I don't know what's your approach
I am trying to do some work using Kinect and the Kinect SDK.
I was wondering whether it is possible to detect facial expressions (e.g. wink, smile etc) using the Kinect SDK Or, getting raw data that can help in recognizing these.
Can anyone kindly suggest any links for this ? Thanks.
I am also working on this and i considered 2 options:
Face.com API:
there is a C# client library and there are a lot of examples in their documentation
EmguCV
This guy Talks about the basic face detection using EmguCV and Kinect SDK and you can use this to recognize faces
Presently i stopped developing this but if you complete this please post a link to your code.
This is currently not featured within the Kinect for Windows SDK due to the limitations of Kinect in producing high-resolution images. That being said, libraries such as OpenCV and AForge.NET have been sucessfuly used to detected finger and facial recognition from both the raw images that are returned from Kinect, and also RGB video streams from web cams. I would use this computer vision libraries are a starting point.
Just a note, MS is releasing the "Kinect for PC" along with a new SDK version in february. This has a new "Near Mode" which will offer better resolution for close-up images. Face and finger recognition might be possible with this. You can read a MS press release here, for example:
T3.com
The new Kinect SDK1.5 is released and contains the facial detection and recognition
you can download the latest SDK here
and check this website for more details about kinect face tracking
This question relates to the Kaggle/CHALEARN Gesture Recognition challenge.
You are given a large training set of matching RGB and Depth videos that were recorded from a Kinect. I would like to use the Kinect SDK's skeletal tracking on these videos, but after a bunch of searching, I haven't found a conclusive answer to whether or not this can be done.
Is it possible to use the Kinect SDK with previously recorded Kinect video, and if so, how? thanks for the help.
It is not a feature within the SDK itself, however you can use something like the Kinect Toolbox OSS project (http://kinecttoolbox.codeplex.com/) which provides Skeleton record and replace functionality (so you don't need to stand in front of your Kinect each time). You do however still need a Kinect plugged in to your machine to use the runtime.