KInect fully tracked hands and head, resizing with depth

As i wanted to do, I've isolated the head and hands, tracked them quite well and put the ellipses from previous tests over the top.

The ellipses are now resizing with depth quite nicely as well.

I guess next is placing 3D tracks of the hands and then working out a good solution to save the tracks to file.

Kinect Skeleton overlayed onto the video stream

I've now tweaked some stuff to get the skeleton working with the depth reading to ensure that it maps properly on top of the person in the video, rather than the issues shown in the last video.

Hopefully next steps are removing the full skeleton, adding some hand glow and then adding the tracks to build the models.... Nice...

Arduino Children's Energy Monitor

This is an energy monitor I put together for my friend: http://elletweedy.wordpress.com/

It's designed to show energy usage in an easy and interesting way for kids.

It uses an Arduino board which measures the power used by an appliance. When the kid keeps the energy within certain boundaries they gain rewards which build up over time.

It's pretty much like sustainable energy Tamagotchi.

Resizing circles with depth of hands and head with kinect

I've got the kinect all working now, and am tracking my hands and head with some circles. And I've overlaid them on top of the raw video.

Something i noticed with the tutorials:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Skeletal-Tracking-Fundamentals

Is the fact that the tracking doesn't take into account how far you are from the sensor. So i've added some code that changes the size of the circles depending on the distance.

Next i need to change the code so the circles move less when you are further away. You'll see that, at present, when you get further away, they still try to fill the screen.

Skeletal data

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Skeletal-Tracking-Fundamentals

Kinect API

Gesture, Thought & Memory

http://www.columbia.edu/~rmk7/PDF/GestMem.pdf

http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/pdfs/gesture.thought.fundamentals.pdf

Data Miming

http://www.christianholz.net/data_miming.html

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/awilson/publications/HolzCHI2011/HolzCHI2011.pdf

3D matching papers

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~funk/sbim08.pdf

https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/search-tog03.pdf

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/MyPapers/WEB3D.pdf

Princeton Shape Retrieval and Analysis Group

For describing and searching 3d shapes:

http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/proj/shape/