Kinect Hand Detection

I'm using a kinect to get a point cloud, and processing that point cloud using ROS. I wrote a hand detection program that segments your fingers. the display is rviz, the default ROS display.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• kinect
• ROS
• hands
• hand detection
• point cloud

[roboczar]

check out my latest project at bilibot.com.  I'm making a cheap robotics platform using ROS, a create, a kinect and a netbook.

[NaipeJC]

kinect = 2 fucking cameras I dont get the ducking dealhow people think kinect is so shit that tracks your movent wen the software is wat makes it do that. you can do it on any camera

[creap32]

1 dislike: PS fanboy!

[iasoik]

@RustyBinProductions I'm sorry but I think you are mistaken. It's not a ToF (Time of Flight) but a structured light sensor. Essentially, the IR pattern that is projected is known and therefore it can be used to estimate its local scale which in turn can give a depth estimation (the observed scale is the inverse of the depth).

[RustyBinProductions]

@stratisfire not quite. The light emitted from the Kinect is "near-IR", and actually carries data. The 3D camera doesn't track the points of light, it measures their return time along with the returned data to calculate depth.

[stratisfire]

@tha07flopro its infrared. it emits infrared light and then has a camera that tracks the little beams of light on your body

[tha07flopro]

@Trancecend i think the kinect has like a laser depth sensor which captures everything in it in 3d

[Trancecend]

How does it handle weird angles?