Questions tagged [kinect-sdk]

Official Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK for building software, using C++, C# or Visual Basic, targetted at the Kinect for Windows hardware.

The Kinect for Windows SDK is Microsoft's official development kit for developing software applications targeting the Kinect for Windows hardware, with language support for C++, C# and Visual Basic. The Kinect for Windows SDK allows developers to create a touchless and immersive user experience through voice, movement and gesture control using the Kinect hardware.

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Kinect SDK: align depth and color frames

I'm working with Kinect sensor and I'm trying to align depth and color frames so that I can save them as images which "fit" into each other. I've spent a lot of time going through msdn forums and modest documentation of Kinect SDK and I'm getting…
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Kinect for Windows v2 depth to color image misalignment

currently I am developing a tool for the Kinect for Windows v2 (similar to the one in XBOX ONE). I tried to follow some examples, and have a working example that shows the camera image, the depth image, and an image that maps the depth to the rgb…
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Is Kinect SDK 2 compatible with Xbox 360 Kinect?

I am trying to develop a face recognition app for fun using Kinect for Xbox 360. I would like to figure out which SDK and version of Visual Studio should I use for best access to the Kinect.
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How to get Zoom value in scroll viewer in C# wpf Kinect SDK 2.0?

I have recently started using the Kinect SDK 2.0 and am focusing on a zoom and pan functionality, as in the Control Basics-WPF sample. I have got the zoom and pan functionality up and running. The problem is that I wish to access the value of the…
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C# and Kinect v2: Get RGB values that fit to depth-pixel

I played a bit around with the Kinect v2 and C# and tried to get a 512x424 pixel-sized image array that contains depth data aswell as the regarding color information (RGBA). Therefore I used the MultiSourceFrameReader class to receive a…
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How to detect the line of sight of a person using kinect?

Currently I am working on a project using Kinect which requires me to know the where the person is looking at that time, for which I figured out I need to find the line of sight of that person. Right now, I can find the head point of the skeleton of…
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Kinect for Windows (v1) with SDK 2.0

I have issues installing Kinect for Windows (the V1 version) using the SDK 2.0. I'm assuming the SDK 2.0 also include drivers necessary for v1 since the download details says introduces support for the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor. The issue I'm…
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How to track eyes using Kinect SDK?

The requirement is to define a rectangle around each eye in 3D space. There should be a way to track eyes using the Microsoft Kinect SDK. According to this The Face Tracking SDK uses the Kinect coordinate system to output its 3D tracking…
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Key Difference between Active IR image and depth image in Kinect V2

I just have a confusion in understanding the difference between the Active IR image and depth Image of Kinect v2. Can anyone tell me the what special features Active IR image have as compare to depth image?
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How to move a kinect skeleton to another position

I am working on a extension method to move one skeleton to a desired position in the kinect field os view. My code receives a skeleton to be moved and the destiny position, i calculate the distance between the received skeleton hip center and the…
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Kinect Depth Image

In my application I am getting the depth frame similar to the depth frame retrieved from Depth Basics Sample. What I don't understand is, why are there discrete levels in the image? I don't know what do I call these sudden changes in depth values.…
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Microsoft Kinect and background/environmental noise

I am currently programming with the Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK 2 on Windows 8.1. Things are going well, and in a home dev environment obviously there is not much noise in the background compared to the 'real world'. I would like to seek some…
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Kinect v2 on Windows 7

So I finally got my two Kinect v2's in the mail, and was looking forward to get some raw data from them and see how much they interfere with each other. I went to go download the SDK, and for some reason I had never noticed the Windows 8…
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Kinect emulation w/o actual device plugged

Is it possible to emulate Kinect sensor (for usage with Kinect SDK), when the Kinect itself isn't plugged? First I thought Kinect Studio does exactly what I wanted, but now it seems like Kinect Studio records data streams and can "feed" them to…
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Kinect v2: Spatial resolution/ depth resolution / camera calibration

For my application, I analyzed the spatial resolution of the Kinect v2. To analyze the spatial resolution, I recorded a perpendicular and planar plane to a given distance and converted the depth map of the plane to a point cloud. Then I compare a…
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