Augmented reality with Kinect : develop your own hands-free and attractive augmented reality applications with Microsoft Kinect / Rui Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Rui (Software engineer)

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinect (Microcontroller)--Programming.

Kinect (Microcontroller).

Multimodal user interfaces (Computer systems).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Wang Rui: Rui Wang is a Software Engineer at Beijing Crystal Digital Technology Co. , Ltd. (Crystal CG), in charge of the new media interactive application design and development. He wrote a Chinese book called OpenSceneGraph Design and Implementation in 2009. He also wrote the book OpenSceneGraph 3. 0 Beginner's Guide in 2010 and OpenSceneGraph 3. 0 Cookbook in 2012, both of which are published by Packt Publishing and co-authored by Xuelei Qian. In his spare time he also writes novels and is a guitar lover.

Summary:

This book is a mini tutorial with plenty of code examples and strategies to give you many options when building your own applications.This book is meant for readers who are familiar with C/C++ programming and want to write simple programs with Kinect. The standard template library can also be used as it is simple enough to understand.

Contents:

Intro

Augmented Reality with Kinect

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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. Getting Started with Kinect

Installation of Kinect

Setting up your Kinect software on PCs

Why did I do that?

The idea of the AR-based Fruit Ninja game

Summary

2. Creating Your First Program

Preparing the development environment

Building the Visual Studio project

Starting the device

Initializing and using Kinect in C++

Understanding the code

Additional information

3. Rendering the Player

Choosing image stream types

Obtaining color and depth images

Drawing color and depth as textures

An incorrect way to combine depth and color

A traditional way for background subtraction

Aligning color with depth

Generating a color image from depth

Using a green screen with Kinect

Making a magic photographer

4. Skeletal Motion and Face Tracking

Understanding skeletal mapping

Obtaining joint positions

Drawing the skeleton

Drawing the linetrails following the hands

Drawing the path for specified joints

Face tracking in Kinect

Detecting a face from the camera

Detecting and drawing the face rectangle

Constructing the face model.

Drawing the parametric face model

5. Designing a Touchable User Interface

Multitouch systems

Locating the cursors

Drawing cursors from two hands

Common touching gestures

Recognizing holding and swiping gestures

Drawing cursors using two hands

Sending cursors to external applications

Emulating Windows mouse with cursors

6. Implementing the Scene and Gameplay

Integrating the current code

Integrating existing elements in a scene

Cutting the fruits

Adding and handling fruit objects

Playing the game

Adding simple game logic

A. Where to Go from Here

libfreenect - the pioneer of Kinect middleware

OpenNI - a complete and powerful Kinect middleware

Free and open source resources

Commercial products using Kinect

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781849694391

1849694397

OCLC:

857078894