kinect

Emgu CV currently allows the use of the Kinect with the OpenNI drivers . I've also seen that there exists an mssdk-openni bridge application to allow the Kinects running on the official Microsoft SDK to emulate OpenNI driven Kinects. Has anyone been successful in getting a Kinect running on the Microsoft SDK to work with Emgu CV, either with the mssdk-openni bridge or directly? Are there any tips on getting it running smoothly, or pitfalls to avoid? Yeah. I've simply installed the SDK and could capture and extract bitmaps of the video stream. The MSSDK for Kinect works just fine and easy. You

I'm working with Emgu Cv in Winforms to do face recognition using Kinect. Now, i want to move to WPF. However, the EmguCv library support only Bitmap class. Can i use the Bitmap class (used in Winforms) in WPF ? if not, is there an other method to use Emgu cv with kinect in WPF? Thanks. Paolo Moretti System.Drawing.Bitmap can not be used directly as image source for WPF, so you have to convert it to System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapSource . The best way to do it is by using Imaging.CreateBitmapSourceFromHBitmap . You can use an extension method: [DllImport("gdi32")] private static extern int

I would like to be able to keep track of people that enter and exit a premises. Basically when the user approaches the Kinect, it will store his/her facial and skeletal data. Then upon leaving, that data will be removed. For now I am only wondering if this is possible or not with the Microsoft SDK. I have seen videos/demos of the Kinect being able to track people but my goal is to identify them uniquely . Any information will be greatly appreciated. Liam McInroy Yes you can save skeleton and face data.... but for what you are doing, it sounds like you only want to save that for the session.

As you can see in image (the link is given below) when left hand is raised it shows an angle what i wanted is . A person should hold his arm for 5sec (in the position shown in a image) and if the person changes its arm position (that means if the angle is below 70 or above 80) within 5 sec some message should b displayed to put the arm back in same position and timer restarts! http://postimage.org/image/hpfl41nzp/ Mainwindow.xaml file <Window x:Class="shoulder_joint.MainWindow" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006

What gesture recognition libraries (if any) exist for the Kinect? Right now I'm using OpenNI to record skeleton movements but am not sure how to go from that to triggering discrete actions. My problem might be as simple as pose detection but it could also be as complicated as time based movements (ie. detect when they are moving their hand in a circle) depending on how difficult that is. The examples that I've seen for pose detection have been very ad-hoc - is this because a generic algorithm is difficult to do right? The NITE library (on top of OpenNI) has classes for detecting swipe and

By using Kinect, I can get depth image in which each depth image pixel store the distance(in millimeter) between camera and object. Now I want to save them so that I can use later. What is the best recommendation? I am thinking to save the depth image as an image (jpg/png, etc). However, the value is usually from 50 mm to 10000 mm while the normal image element can store from 0-255. Then I will need to scale the data to range 0-255 and that may exploit the data somehow. You can use any format like tiff or png that supports 16 bit grayscale images, since your data will fit in a 16 bit (2^16-1