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OpenNI Cookbook

By : Soroush Falahati
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OpenNI Cookbook

By: Soroush Falahati

Overview of this book

The release of Microsoft Kinect, then PrimeSense Sensor, and Asus Xtion opened new doors for developers to interact with users, re-design their application’s UI, and make them environment (context) aware. For this purpose, developers need a good framework which provides a complete application programming interface (API), and OpenNI is the first choice in this field. This book introduces the new version of OpenNI. "OpenNI Cookbook" will show you how to start developing a Natural Interaction UI for your applications or games with high level APIs and at the same time access RAW data from different sensors of different hardware supported by OpenNI using low level APIs. It also deals with expanding OpenNI by writing new modules and expanding applications using different OpenNI compatible middleware, including NITE. "OpenNI Cookbook" favors practical examples over plain theory, giving you a more hands-on experience to help you learn. OpenNI Cookbook starts with information about installing devices and retrieving RAW data from them, and then shows how to use this data in applications. You will learn how to access a device or how to read data from it and show them using OpenGL, or use middleware (especially NITE) to track and recognize users, hands, and guess the skeleton of a person in front of a device, all through examples.You also learn about more advanced aspects such as how to write a simple module or middleware for OpenNI itself. "OpenNI Cookbook" shows you how to start and experiment with both NIUI designs and OpenNI itself using examples.

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OpenNI Cookbook
Soroush Falahati
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
OpenNI Cookbook
OpenNI Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started
Getting Started
Introduction
Downloading and installing OpenNI
Downloading and installing NiTE
Downloading and installing the Microsoft Kinect SDK
Connecting Asus Xtion and PrimeSense sensors
Connecting Microsoft Kinect
2
OpenNI and C++
OpenNI and C++
Introduction
Creating a project in Visual Studio 2010
OpenNI class and error handling
Enumerating a list of connected devices
Accessing video streams (depth/IR/RGB) and configuring them
Retrieving a list of supported video modes for depth stream
Selecting a specific device for accessing depth stream
Listening to the device connect and disconnect events
Opening an already recorded file (ONI file) instead of a device
3
Using Low-level Data
Using Low-level Data
Introduction
Configuring Visual Studio 2010 to use OpenGL
Initializing and preparing OpenGL
Reading and showing a frame from the image sensor (color/IR)
Reading and showing a frame from the depth sensor
Controlling the player when opening a device from file
Recording streams to file (ONI file)
Event-based reading of data
4
More about Low-level Outputs
More about Low-level Outputs
Introduction
Cropping and mirroring frames right from the buffer
Syncing image and depth sensors to read new frames from both streams at the same time
Overlaying the depth frame over the image frame
Converting the depth unit to millimetre
Retrieving the color of the nearest point without depth over color registration
Enabling/disabling auto exposure and auto white balance
5
NiTE and User Tracking
NiTE and User Tracking
Introduction
Getting a list of all the active users
Identifying and coloring users' pixels in depth map
Reading users' bounding boxes and center of mass
Event-based reading of users' data
6
NiTE and Hand Tracking
NiTE and Hand Tracking
Introduction
Recognizing predefined hand gestures
Tracking hands
Finding the related user ID for each hand ID
Event-based reading of hands' data
Working sample for controlling the mouse by hand
7
NiTE and Skeleton Tracking
NiTE and Skeleton Tracking
Introduction
Detecting a user's pose
Getting a user's skeleton joints and displaying their position in the depth map
Designing a simple pong game using skeleton tracking
Index
Index

Introduction

In this chapter, we are going to cover every topic related to hand tracking in NiTE, from finding hand gestures to tracking hand movements and finding which hand belongs to which user.

Unfortunately, the new version of NITE does not have some commands, such as the hand swipe, from the old API.

The nite::HandTracker object

Just as with nite::UserTracker, which is responsible for giving us information about users, nite::HandTracker is responsible for giving us information about hand tracking and hand's gestures on the scene. The two main functionalities of nite::HandTracker are recognizing hand gestures and tracking hands. Let's take a look at the important methods of this class:

  • nite:HandTracker::startGestureDetection(): This method starts the process of searching for a specific hand gesture in the scene. It accepts only a single argument from the nite::GestureType enum type. This enum type has three predefined members that are the only supported gestures by nite::HandTracker. It...

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