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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By : Abhijit Jana
Book Image

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By: Abhijit Jana

Overview of this book

Kinect has been a game-changer in the world of motion games and applications since its first release. It has been touted as a controller for Microsoft Xbox but is much more than that. The developer version of Kinect, Kinect for Windows SDK, provides developers with the tools to develop applications that run on Windows. You can use this to develop applications that make interaction with your computer hands-free. This book focuses on developing applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. It is a complete end to end solution using different features of Kinect for Windows SDK with step by step guidance. The book will also help you develop motion sensitive and speech recognition enabled applications. You will also learn about building application using multiple Kinects.The book begins with explaining the different components of Kinect and then moves into to the setting up the device and getting thedevelopment environment ready. You will be surprised at how quickly the book takes you through the details of Kinect APIs. You will use NUI to use the Kinect for Natural Inputs like skeleton tracking, sensing, speech recognizing. You will capture different types of stream, and images, handle stream event, and capture frame. Kinect device contains a motorized tilt to control sensor angles, you will learn how to adjust it automatically. The last part of the book teaches you how to build application using multiple Kinects and discuss how Kinect can be used to integrate with other devices such as Windows Phone and microcontroller.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

An intrusion detector camera application


With the knowledge you have gained so far in this chapter on the basics of skeleton tracking, you can build a small and interesting application – an intrusion detector camera. Kinect will be used as a watchdog at home or any other place where you want to monitor. The application will capture a photo and store it in your system whenever there is a human intrusion detected.

To build this application, you need to know how to capture the color stream from the sensor and save it in the system. We have already discussed capturing and saving image frames in Chapter 4, Getting the Most out of Kinect Camera.

Set up a new project and perform the basic and common tasks for identifying and getting a reference for the sensor. Once the sensor is identified, enable both the ColorStream and SkeletonStream channels and attach the event handler for both in the Loaded event of the application, as shown in the following code block:

this.sensor.ColorStream.Enable();
this...