Chapter 8. Body Tracking with Kinect

After completing this chapter, you will:

  • Understand how the Kinect can register the position of a body and how the information is presented to a program

  • Create a program that will track the head of a subject

  • Make use of the Kinect body position information that is provided by the Kinect SDK

  • Create programs that make use of body-tracking information to perform gesture recognition

  • Create a program that will detect when two people kiss

Kinect Body Tracking

YOU HAVE SEEN HOW THE Kinect depth sensor generates distance data. Your program is given a picture of the view from the sensor. Each pixel in the picture contains a value that represents the distance from the sensor to an object in that direction. The Kinect depth ...

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