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.