Point Cloud Library

http://www.ros.org/wiki/pcl

OpenKinect, OpenNI, and Skeleton Tracking

The image is from:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/KinectGettingStarted.aspx?display=Print

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

Open Natural Interface:
http://openni.org/

Human Pose Estimation from a Depth Sensor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qca4qDspLyk&NR=1

Kinect for xbox360 spawn point:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/fs2010/presentations/Kudo_Fitzgibbons_Kinect_for_Xbox360_071210_FacSummit.pdf

Kinect for Xbox 360: The inside story of Microsoft's secret 'Project Natal'
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2010/11/features/the-game-changer

Key Kinect Technology Devised in Cambridge Lab
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2010/11/08/key-kinect-technology-devised-in-cambridge-lab/

Research Papers:
http://openkinect.org/wiki/Research_Material

信念对一个人是多么地重要，一无所有的时候可以支撑一个人。

What's in the Microsoft XBox Kinect?

1. a video camera;
2. a scanning infra-red laser, the most interesting part; The kinect infra-red laserappears to project an infrared dot pattern all over the room:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKlNGSH9Po&feature=related

3. an infra-red camera;
patent: US20100118123 which explains how the 3D reconstruction works. The dots are grouped into sub-patterns, these patterns decrease in size with the distance. The 3x3 check board with different gray levels is used to calibrate the environment illumination.

(3x3 matrix of little dots with a reference dot in the middle of each matrix square. 3D is determined by the displacement of these dots, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjYoNx-4KrU)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GSc3ptePTQ

IR Modded Canon Powershot A540 looks at Kinect IR output
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28JwgxbQx8w

You can see the check box pattern difference as the board moves far away from the IR emitter.

4. a motorized tilt mechanism;
5. a noise canceling microphone system: 4 mics in an array: one on the left, three on the right.

Hack Xbox Kinect:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-microsoft-xbox-kinect-hacks-blow-mind/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect

kinect sdk will be released by MSR this summer.


http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/hack-kinect-kill-zombies/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/control-windows-pc-kinect/

Kinect™ for Xbox 360: Technology + Two Applications
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jfw3x/cs4501/

http://www.primesense.com

machine vision one person startup

Two completely technological background guy's one person startup:

http://www.3d3solutions.com/products/flexscan3d/


http://www.vrmesh.com/

没有天才，是下的功夫比别人大。

没有天才，是下的功夫比别人大。