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Microsoft's Kinect is a motion sensing input device for the Xbox 360, Xbox One and PCs. Combining video and depth cameras, the Kinect allows developers to create a touchless and immersive user experience through voice, movement and gesture control.

Microsoft's Kinect is a motion sensing input device for the Xbox 360, Xbox One and PCs. Originally developed for use with the Xbox 360 the Kinect has been opened up for use with Windows PCs by Microsoft's official , and for additional platforms though OpenKinect's SDK. Using a combination of video and depth cameras, as well as a microphone array, the Kinect hardware provides developers the means for creating a touchless and immersive user experience through voice, movement and gesture control.

The Kinect hardware does not inherently perform any tracking or recognition operations, leaving all such processing to software. Skeleton tracking is generally handled by the SDK (as with Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK and the OpenKinect SDK) with gesture recognition left to the developer, though multiple libraries exist to aid in recognition of gestures. In addition, speech recognition is performed by external SDKs such as the Microsoft Speech Platform.

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Store Kinect's v2.0 Motion to BVH File

I would like to store the motion capture data from Kinect 2 as a BVH file. I found code which does so for Kinect 1 which can be found here. I went through the code and found several things that I was not able to understand. For example, in the…
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Official Kinect SDK vs. Open-source alternatives

Where do they differ? What are the advantages of choosing libfreenect or OpenNI+SensorKinect, for example, over the Official SDK, and vice-versa? What are the disadvantages?
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Kinect sideways skeleton tracking

Currently I am using the Microsoft Kinect for measuring angles between joints. Most measurements are working correctly. Whenever a person is sitting sideways (on a chair) the Kinect won't track the skeleton accurate. To illustrate my problem I've…
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Raspberry Pi with Kinect

Could anyone get the camera data from the Kinect using a Raspberry Pi ? We would like to make a wireless Kinect connecting it using Ethernet or WiFi. Otherwise, let me know if you have a working alternative.
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Precision of the kinect depth camera

How precise is the depth camera in the kinect? range? resolution? noise? Especially I'd like to know: Are there any official specs about it from Microsoft? Are there any scientific papers on the subject? Investigations from TechBlogs? Personal…
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Cannot open Windows.h in Microsoft Visual Studio

First of all: I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 I am a C#/Java developer and I am now trying to program for the kinect using Microsoft SDK and C++. So I started of with the Color Basics example, and I can not get it to compile. At first, none…
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How to make a control in XAML public in order to be seen in other classes

I'm working in wpf application i made a checkbox in the XAML, then my code calls a function in a class and in this function there is an if condition where its checking on whether the checkbox is checked or not but the checkbox is not seen in this…
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Using System.Speech with Kinect

I am developing a prototype speech to text captioning application for a University project. I am going to be using gesture recognition within my project late on, so I thought it would be a good idea to use the Kinect as the microphone source, rather…
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Matching Kinect Audio with Video

I have a project dealing with video conferencing using the Kinect (or, more likely, four of them). Right now, my company uses these stupidly expensive cameras for our VTC rooms. The hope is, using a couple Kinects linked together, we can reduce the…
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Kinect pattern recognition

I bought a Kinect to play around with on my PC in C#. (And what fun it is to program!) I'm using CLNUIDevice.dll to get the depth image from Kinect. This works fine and I'm able to read the depth through the RGB values in the image. Now I'm…
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What is the difference between OpenNI and OpenKinect?

I am considering using Kinect in one my projects, but I am totally lost between all the libraries. Don't know what is what exactly. Most importantly I am reading stuff about OpenNI and OpenKinect. But don't know their relation/differences. PS. I am…
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Remove Kinect depth shadow

I've recently started hacking on my Kinect and I want to remove the depth shadow. The shadow is caused by the IR emitter being positioned slightly to the side of the camera, so any close object will get a big shadow and distant object less or no…
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Interacting with avatar using Kinect and Unity

I want to move the avatar based on the movement the player using kinect and Unity, are there any good tutorials? We are using unity and Kinect interface to create a simple application. Based on the movement of the player we need to move the…
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OpenCV: How to visualize a depth image

I am using a dataset in which it has images where each pixel is a 16 bit unsigned int storing the depth value of that pixel in mm. I am trying to visualize this as a greyscale depth image by doing the following: cv::Mat depthImage; depthImage =…
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Using XBox 360 Kinect with Kinect for Windows SDK

I'm working on a class project which is using a Kinect. According to the [Microsoft Kinect for Windows Information Page][1]: If you’re receiving either of these error messages, you’re probably using a Kinect for Xbox 360 and not the new Kinect…
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