2013年2月26日星期二

Group meeting 2

This week, our group discussed some other problems about gestures. Last week, some gestures can not be obtained because of the problems of the source code. Last week, the gestures for copying and deleting can not be realized, and we can wave our hands and zoom out two hands using the Kinect.

My partner said that some gestures can be recorded first and then shown in the screen, and we can stand in front of the Kinect sensor to do some gestures such as wave your hands from right to left, or from left to right, these gestures can be read and recorded, as the gestures are recorded by the Kinect, when you do the gestures, they can be recognized clearly.

2013年2月23日星期六

group meeting

I have been looking at the Kinect for windows release and features, since I want to incorporate gesture recognition in my project as well.

The first line mentions that" The Kinect for windows SDK enables developers to create applications that support gesture".However, I don't think there are any gesture recognition APIs available in the SDK. The APIs of Skeleton Tracking are there to be used readily but then they have to be tailored with to get gesture recognition. While in our project, some gestures can not be completed, so we changed some of the source code and then you can control two hands of icons in the screen. I wondow if all these applications are custom built and have to write their own gesture recognition code.

As we have not studied the C# before, the assumption of some gesture such as delete and copy that can not be realized. We simplify our code, and some other applications and functions can be realized in future.

2013年2月22日星期五

Some information about our Kinect project



This project allows developers to include fast, reliable and highly customizable gesture recognition in Microsoft Kinect SDK C# projects.
Included is a gesture recorder, recognizer and sample gestures. You can save your gestures to file and we'd love it if you shared your gestures with the community - share and share alike!
In our project, you can wave your hands in front of the Kinect sensor, and the two hands icons are shown and controlled in the screen.
I would really love it if you share the gestures you make, as well as providing feedback on the best parameter settings you have found. I'm also keen for others to improve the project, so please feel free to contribut

2013年2月11日星期一

week2

This week, we had a meeting with our project supervisor. During the meeting, the basic situations were reported. We stated our ideas and the supervisor gave us the comments and suggestions.

After the meeting and the discussion, our group finally decided to use kinect sensor to realize the the forward and back functions of a document by the gesture of the skeleton. In addition, the sample project only has 2 basic operations, so we is going to add a delete operation.

To achieve these 3 operations, we need to utilized the kinect to recognize the joints of the human body. Then, according to the different movements and positions of the joints, the kinect can do the specifiec operation which the users want to do.

2013年2月3日星期日

Introduction of kinect and the problems we met

On the 1st Feb, it is the first week of lab. During the lab section, we learned the basic functions of the kinect sensor.

As what we have acknowledged from the sample project of kinect sensor, there are 3 modes used by this device. The first mode is color mode, which sense the environment from different colors. The second mode is depth recognize, which can produce graph that indicate the distance between an object and the kinect camera by the grey level. The third mode is skeleton, which can read out the movement of the humans' bodies in front of the kinect camera.

When installing the SDK for the kinect device on Winsdows 8, we encountered some serious problems. The latest version of the SDK did not compatible with Visual stuaio 2012, which runs under Windows 8. So, we were forced to modify the system and the development tool.