Category: Work In Progress

Kinect disconnected: How to take apart the Xbox Kinect – YouTube. Crucial moment at 02:15 – 02:30 minutes to reveal screws under stickers, which should allow to locate hardware for ceiling mounts. Read more →

In this work we developed a wide area tracking system based on consumer hardware such as Microsoft Kinect and Asus Xtion together with available motion capture modules and middleware (OpenNI). We are using multiple depth cameras (Kinects) for human pose tracking in order to increase the captured space. In this video you can see an installation of 3 Kinect depth… Read more →

With overlapping Kinects you have to deal with interference. Here are two interesting articles on how to overcome these problems by using a small vibrating motor: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/171706/shake’n’Sense.pdf http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fuchs/kinect_VR_2012.pdf Being able to track across the whole range would mean to calibrate the cameras accordingly. You could have a look at some of the projector calibration scenarios – e.g. using a checker… Read more →

Maimone, A. and H. Fuchs. “Reducing Interference Between Multiple Structured Light Depth Sensors Using Motion.” IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 (Orange County, CA, March 4-8, 2012) Award: Best short paper via Henry Fuchs, PhD Publications –. Read more →