Gesture recognition with Kinect, uirt and TV: No More Remotes

I connected my Kinect and usb-uirt to my Mac Mini. My code i integrated wit OpenNI to detect the skeleton and I've programed it to find some specific gestures. The code will then send pre-recorded IR signals to the TV to Switch it on/off and change volume and channels on my set-top box.

http://code42tiger.blogspot.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• kinect
• skeleton
• gesture
• mac
• osx
• uirt
• usb

[jhk2022]

We have own solution for Gesture Recognition Interface with Stereo Camera.

We don't use prime sense solution.

Our New solution doesn't have Calibration step and Skeleton that mean it is easy to apply any general purpose usage.

[harishankarn]

@jhk2022 I saw your video and it needs the user to stand in the right distance from the TV/Device and I understand you have filtered out the nearest objects on Kinect depth map. Unless you have a very efficient, and self-learning background removal algorithm, you won't be able to achieve the same effect at all distances.

[harishankarn]

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[evansaidhi]

just asking how long did it take u to make this?

[harishankarn]

@evansaidhi less than a month...

[harishankarn]

@montyjayak you can tap the signals using the same device uirt. It's a transmitter.

[anamenos]

A Microsoft and Apple devise working together, who would have imagine that???

[harishankarn]

If you are interested in a tutorial for kinect on Mac, I can definitely do. But if you want some sample code I can email it.

[lohith1947]

my mail id is lohithkimi@gmail.com

[lohith1947]

sir im using matlab for that. can u help me in code plsss sir

[lohith1947]

sir i m doing gesture control in tv .pls help me sir . can i know ur mail id

[watulookinatboy]

lol i did this in a week....still in high school :P

although i used the microsoft sdk beta 2 and c# for it but i see what you did there :D

also thought of this a while afterwards....isn't it easier to just...use you thumb to press a button?

also; try using a iPhone or something to do the job to do the job for the uirt

[whosyagamer]

The best thing for this is manafacturers can plug in directly a Kinect in universally to any usb device including tv's to control that device then getting rid of the remote control. Because the technology behind IR remotes dates back to the 1970's and the Kinect is the perfect device to replace remote controls.

[ashwingothi111]

i m final year BE student.can u please give us idea about ur project & please mail us ur project code & doc of ur project.as i hd selected this topic as my final year project

[kortasnestre]

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[farhankhan961]

will u plzz help me if i want to do this project