Kinect for Windows SDK programming guide - Jana, Abhijit (Packt Publishing Limited, 2012)
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Table of Contents; Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide; Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Instant Updates on New Packt Books; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Understanding the Kinect Device; Components of Kinect for Windows
Inside the Kinect sensorThe color camera; IR emitter and IR depth sensor; How depth data processing works; Tilt motor; Microphone array; LED; Kinect for Windows versus Kinect for Xbox; Where can you use Kinect; Summary; 2. Getting Started; System requirements for the Kinect for Windows SDK; Supported operating systems; System configuration; The Kinect sensor; The Kinect for Windows sensor; The Kinect for Xbox sensor; Development tools and software; Evaluation of the Kinect for Windows SDK; Downloading the SDK and the Developer Toolkit; Installing Kinect for Windows SDK.
Installing the Developer ToolkitComponents installed by the SDK and the Developer Toolkit; Kinect management service; Connecting the sensor with the system; Verifying the installed drivers; Not able to view all the device components; Detecting the loaded drivers in Device Manager; Testing your device; Testing Kinect sensors; Testing the Kinect microphone array; Looking inside the Kinect SDK; Features of the Kinect for Windows SDK; Capturing the color image data stream; Processing the depth image data stream; Near Mode; Capturing the infrared stream; Tracking human skeleton and joint movements
Capturing the audio streamSpeech recognition; Human gesture recognition; Tilting the Kinect sensor; Getting data from the accelerometer of the sensor; Controlling the infrared emitter; The Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit; The Face Tracking SDK; Kinect Studio; Making your development setup ready; The Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit; Summary; 3. Starting to Build Kinect Applications; How applications interact with the Kinect sensor; Understanding the classification of SDK APIs; Kinect Info Box -- your first Kinect application; Creating a new Visual Studio project; Adding the Kinect libraries