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by Vangos Pterneas
Background removal using Kinect 2 (green screen effect)
by Shai Raiten
In my previous posts about Kinect I've showed how to get started, how to change Angles and more cool stuff, but now it's time to start working on the real things, how to enable Kinect to your environment, I'm talking about PC.
by Shai Raiten
Kinect – Calculator – Adjust Skeleton Movements To Mouse
by Vangos Pterneas
How to use Kinect v2 Face basics

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by Yang Kok Wah
A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.
by Tareq_Gamal
How to Control NAOqi-Based Robots like NAO, Pepper using Kinect
by Vangos
Today, I would like to introduce you to the Orbbec Astra sensor and the Nuitrack body-tracking SDK. This is an in-depth tutorial for software developers who would like to use a new depth sensor and a new body-tracking SDK to develop amazing motion applications.
by Vangos
Floor Detection using Kinect

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30 Apr 2022 by Hamna Malik 2022
Canvas is not displaying video even there is no error while execution of code What I have tried: def ir_frame_to_jpg(self, IRFrame): IRFrame = IRFrame.reshape((const.ir_image_size)) IRFrame = np.uint8(IRFrame) ...
19 Mar 2022 by Yang Kok Wah
A tool to generate face images and animated gif files for different angles and lighting using only a single face image. Also includes Face Matcher using Microsoft Face API.
18 Jun 2019 by Member 14230539
I'm new to Kinect. Till now in my program , I got 4 table coordinates in colorspace points and depthspacepoints and i formed the polygon using those 4 points. Now I need to do polygon masking such that inside it will show the video and outside all the pixel RGB value to 0,0,0(black) in the...
28 Jan 2019 by Tareq_Gamal
How to Control NAOqi-Based Robots like NAO, Pepper using Kinect
27 Jan 2019 by Vangos
Today, I would like to introduce you to the Orbbec Astra sensor and the Nuitrack body-tracking SDK. This is an in-depth tutorial for software developers who would like to use a new depth sensor and a new body-tracking SDK to develop amazing motion applications.
27 Jan 2019 by Vangos
Floor Detection using Kinect
27 Jan 2019 by Vangos
How to measure the orientation of a joint around each axis (X, Y, Z)
27 Jan 2019 by Vangos
27 Jul 2018 by Gerry Schmitz
You don't have any "update" code. And maybe your "Kinect" needs to be plugged in.
27 Jul 2018 by Member 13886465
i have a stock table and a window form to purchase item just purchase item to show msgbox show stock and update stock table then second time purchase item and msgbox not refresh old stock is show this is problem What I have tried: Dim qt_str As String If con.State =...
30 May 2018 by Member 13842541
The Kinect studio has the Amplification and Gamma parameters for visualization. I try to use the library (https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/819613/Kinect-Version-Depth-Frame-to-mat-File-) to extract the IR frames to .mat file. Then, I convert the mat file to .tif image. After running, the images...
5 Mar 2018 by Maciej Los
First of all, please read my comment to the question. As is mentioned here: How to connect Kinect XBOX 360 to MATLAB?[^] Matlab 2011 does not support Image Acquisition. This future is available from Matlab R2013a. Follow the link to get more details.
5 Mar 2018 by Member 10928726
I'm working on SLAM project using Kinect, I'm using Matlab 2011. The Kinect is working properly on visual studio(C#), but the Matlab doesn't recognize it. I tried Microsoft kinect SDK 1.8 and Microsoft kinect SDK 2 But it also doesn't work. What I have tried: On Matlab I'm using Image...
6 Apr 2017 by Member 13014278
Hi I want stabilize mouse-pointer when I use kinect. I did the set of cursor, using smooth and sensitivity, but the cursor jumps mainly in margins of screen. Somebody can help me? The code that I have for set cursor is: // set cursor position MouseControl.SetCursorPos( // X coordinate...
6 Apr 2017 by Member 13014278
Thanks Dave. I already searched, but didn't found nothing, to help me. Can you help me?
6 Apr 2017 by Dave Kreskowiak
Why would putting the thread to sleep "smooth" out the mouse pointer? All that does is make your app completely unresponsive. You're "smoothing", if that's what you want to call that code, the position of the mouse pointer isn't the correct way to go about this. What you should be doing is...
26 Mar 2017 by Member 13014278
I am developing a kinect application, and now I can set the mouse cursor to middle of screen when my hand is reconized by kinect sensor. However, this just happen when run the application. I want that this happen when hand is detected by the kinect sensor during execution. Somebody can help me?...
9 Mar 2017 by Member 13014278
I want add an image near mouse cursor that moves with cursor to use in kinect application (C#). Somebody have any ideas?Now I have this code, but this is an image in a form. I want an image near cursor that moves when cursor moves.public void ShowCursorLoadImage(){ Form frm =...
21 Feb 2017 by Member 10268855
I have a Kinect V2 that collects measurements from a object that is rotated 360 degrees.Once the object is rotated 360 degrees I end up with 360 arrays with a length of 480. These arrays are full of distance measurements taken from a measuring device.I would like to take the captured...
21 Feb 2017 by Member 13014983
I have searched but cant find the answer to my problem. I'm trying to duplicate a program that Already exist and I don't have the source code. This program has 32 lasers that point at a object that's rotated 360 degrees. The lasers measure the object as it rotates and for every degree of...
20 Feb 2017 by Graeme_Grant
Google Search is your friend... This should help: display kinect 3d model in WPF[^]
23 Oct 2016 by Member 12718760
Hi there, do you finally found a solution to send the kinect v2 video frames over network (over internet) in real time ?
9 Sep 2016 by Vangos Pterneas
Background removal using Kinect 2 (green screen effect)
23 Jul 2016 by Member 12525281
I have some problem on my project.First, i want to create a program which can detect skeleton tracking from video clips.Second, how to measure angle after skeleton tracking.Third,why Kinect studio cannot show me skeleton tracking function.What I have tried:i had use Kinect studio...
11 Jul 2016 by Member 10466515
I have to make Kinect Virtual dressing room project in 10 days,I am very much familiar with Kinect and i have developed many sample applications also.Please tell me step by step procedure to make virtual dressing room in which the 3d clothes maps on real person.Please tell me what should i start...
11 Jul 2016 by OriginalGriff
Even if we could - which we can't - this would be the wrong place for it: what you are asking for is all the background research that is a major part of the pre-development phase of the project. And even that is likely to take longer than 10 days unless you are very familiar with clothing, and...
27 Jun 2016 by Member 12181090
I would like to transform the depth data from the entire scene of the view of the camera to point cloud.At this time i track and import only the human skeleton from the depth data.If someone could help me i would be grateful.Here is the code:// we got all frames if...
17 May 2016 by Vangos Pterneas
How to detect a weight lifting bar using Kinect
5 Apr 2016 by Member 12181090
Hi!I am writing a code at C# and i want to know how i could take 3D point cloud(X-Y-Z position) from the kinect sensor only when it detects moving objects.Thank youWhat I have tried:I have tried to find any answers at internet but the only think that i found is methods to...
23 Mar 2016 by Sanket Saxena
I am creating a Gesture Based System using WPF,C# and Kinect SDK v2 and open a docx file after tracking the finger on the Table surface. Now i would like to scroll up and down that document file by giving some Gesture (like WAVE which Kinect SDK already have but it needs Body tracking and i am...
24 Feb 2016 by Member 10751415
Hi developers, there will be a way to perform a scan with more than 2 persons with the kinect sdk 1.8.I want to use the kinect sdk for trackingI use C#, Windows Form, Kinect Sdk 1.8, EmguCv.Greeting.What I have tried:try to keep track with the skeletons but only works for two...
24 Jan 2016 by lgmugato
So, I'm trying to make Kinect v1.8 Run in C++/CX UWP XAML. Every other NUI Function seems to work besides NuiInitialize(). If I run the examples from the Developer Toolkit in native C++ they work just fine. I'm not really sure why it may be failing. If anyone can give me a little guidance it...
5 Dec 2015 by ranjith m amin
Hi. I have downloaded free project from internet. When i try to run exe it's not turning ON the kinect and on change in display(just a blue background). If i try to run unity code it is giving error that unityinterface.dll missing. I tried pasting the dll file in root folder of unity.exe,...
18 Nov 2015 by Member 11352969
I learned that Kinect provide skeleton from depth image, so I wonder it's there a way that I record depth image and do some modify(filter or other things), and then input it into kinect to get the skeleton?
6 Nov 2015 by CiscoSoft
I have successfully implemented the floor clip plane to measure the distance of left foot to the floor, which is fairly accurate. The problem I have is that as I move away from the camera (i.e. left foot Z axis is increased), the foot distance to the floor changes (increases).Note: The floor...
9 Sep 2015 by MikcaCP
I've just started using C# to build some network applications (just simply send and receive small files via socket).I want to use kinect to stream video data like 1-1 video conference but have no clue or idea to do this althought I have searched for various samples online but I'm unable to...
6 Sep 2015 by niutianbo
I have a method which is from kinect 1:private double TrackJointsRotation(KinectSensor sensor, Joint leftJoint, Joint rightJoint) { if (leftJoint.TrackingState == JointTrackingState.NotTracked || rightJoint.TrackingState == JointTrackingState.NotTracked) ...
17 Aug 2015 by sreeyush sudhakaran
Please refer a solution here Video Capture using OpenCV with C#[^]Video chat : Examples to create your Conferencing System in .NET, C# VOIP & Video Conferencing Systems using H.323 and TAPI 3[^]
27 Jul 2015 by Member 10250681
I,m new to wpf 3d and kinect .i,m trying to build a virtual cloth trial application using 3d shirts 3d pants etcas for my research on the topic i found that xna unity 3d are the platforms to start . but i need to achieve this without xna unity or any other platformsexcept wpf 3d c# kinect ....
30 Jun 2015 by Member 11805255
hii'm working on an application in order to extract clusters and planes from a point cloud using kinectv1.i have a win7 64, i'm using openni 1.6.4 and pcl1.6.0 . i'm coding with visual studio 2010. i'll be very grateful for your help!regards
13 Jun 2015 by Member 10592032
I am trying to use an existing project and integrate the new v2 camera and SDK. When doing so I get a lot of errors that are about the same throughout the entire project. This is a large project so I am trying to limit changes. Most of the errors are namespace/reference errors for Skeleton...
10 Jun 2015 by Klajdo Fyraj
Hi guys I found the problem and solve it. First I forgot to copy the x86 and x64 folders from Emgu\bin to Debug folder of the Visual Studio directory. Moreover, converting Media.BitmapSource to Emgu.CV.Image isn't the best idea so after reading a book (James Ashley - Beginning Kinect Programming...
7 Jun 2015 by Klajdo Fyraj
I am working on an project where I want to use Kinect camera 2 (SDK v2), with Emgu library (2.4.10.1940).First I converted the Kinect ColorFrame to BitmapSource and then from BitmapSource to Drawing.Bitmap. When I try to convert from Drawing.Bitmap to Image, I get an "A first...
12 May 2015 by Member 10405651
I am trying to change the position on an Ellipse-shape. I want the Ellipse to follow my hand position (using the Kinect). I created a Ellipse-shape in C# using the Toolbox. I named the Shape "HandEllipse". The position of the right hand is named "Righthandintx".When I press view code on the...
21 Mar 2015 by manjunath reddy
I have applied PCA on a set of points which represents an object. But the result is not perpendicular to the object surfaces(i.e the eigenvectors are not perpendicular to the surface of the objects). Because of which I am not to calculate real dimensions of the object.#include...
10 Mar 2015 by Member 11423271
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10 Mar 2015 by Member 11512711
Hello, I'm developping an application using Kinect SDK 1.7 where i want to implement a fall detection algorithm.based on the joints coordinates, i have to calculate the maximum and the minimum of all the joints to determinate the 2 dimensions(H and WD) of a 3D bounding Box.i start with...
20 Feb 2015 by Member 10928726
Can I track object (like ball in example...) with kinect using sdk V1 ?and if i can ,can i track it with a skelton at the same time....? thanx in advance :)
3 Feb 2015 by Vangos Pterneas
Natural User Interfaces make some serious buzz these days – not without a reason. Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) literally change the way people interact with computers. They create new patterns, new means of communication, and new business opportunities. We can now play football without a con
2 Feb 2015 by Member 11420310
I want to program an NXT brick for an shooting robot and i have no idea how to do this. If somebody knows a good site for that or worked with something similar please contact me.I need an GUI also WPF would be great. Right now i am starting to build that with an free kinect Source code...
2 Jan 2015 by Member 10928726
I'm trying to make a copter moving depending on the movement of a person,the kinect will track the person and the copter(it have a red ball"for example.." on it) at the same time
31 Dec 2014 by dthepok
sorry i didnt get you. how can i run a look between X1:Y1 and X2:Y2 and move the mouse with a fraction of the total movement in every iteration.is there any sample code available.thanks
31 Dec 2014 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
The reason your mouse jumps is that you update the position upon event...So a moment before you mouse was at position X1:Y1 and now you update it to X2:Y2 - in flick of the eye...What you can do is run a look between X1:Y1 and X2:Y2 and move the mouse with a fraction of the total movement in...
31 Dec 2014 by dthepok
Hello all,I'm working on a project to move the mouse cursor using righthand which is tracked by kinect using Depth Image. I am controlling mouse movement from right hand palm joint. I'm able to do the tracking but when i am keeping the hand stationary the mouse jumps from one place to another....
21 Dec 2014 by Vangos Pterneas
How to use Kinect v2 Face basics
30 Nov 2014 by Pankaj Deharia
I am using Kinect SDK 1.8, i am using default Kinect controls. KinectRegion to display hand cursor of Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.Controls. But hand cursor is too fast and sensitive. i wanted it to be make it slow down, My Application is running on the 3840X1080 resolution of screen. so that end...
29 Oct 2014 by Member 11191110
I'm trying to do something that really simple but I don't know how for example when the user wave their hand the word "wave" will show and when the swipe left another message will show and so onhow can I do this
11 Aug 2014 by ahadji_547
hi! i have to do a program with kinect for my senior project and i'm new in doing programs with visual studio.. i follow the instructions of the "Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide" but the explanation in one of the example applications of the book is insufficient.. to be more specific i...
7 Aug 2014 by Erloic
Hi all,I'm a computer developper , i've been strugling lately for a month now, trying to install all necesary packages to get my Xtion camera to work on my Quad core(Arm) Udoo board with Ubuntu 12.04 with any given sample.Does anybody knows a good tutorial of Xtion + Udoo(ARM) on Ubuntu...
5 Aug 2014 by ahadji_547
hi! i have to do a program with kinect camera for my senior project and i'm new in doing programs with visual studio.. i follow the instructions of the Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide but the explanation is insufficient. The application must open a dialog window when i press a button...
14 Jul 2014 by ashok rathod
Here I assumed that you dont know how exactly basic style is incorporated in xaml. So first of all look for(i mean search in whole solution and where exactly style is defined) two styles in BasicTextStyle and BasicContentStyle and see where exactly it is located.It should be somewhere in other...
14 Jul 2014 by ahadji_547
hi! i have to do a program with kinect for my senior project and i'm new in doing programs with visual studio.. i follow the instructions of the "Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide" but the explanation of the .xaml file in one of the example applications of the book is insufficient and i...
14 Jul 2014 by Pankaj Deharia Ignatiuz
I am using Kinect SDK 1.8, i am using default Kinect control. KinectRegion to display hand cursor of Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.Controls. But hand cursor is too fast and sensitive. i wanted it to be make it slow down, so that end user of my Kinect app can control that cursor easily on screen. i...
26 Jun 2014 by Agha Musa
i did the same and found the same result but the problem that i am having here is no clear cut way to follow, secondly i am not that good in kinect that's why its becoming very difficult for me :(
26 Jun 2014 by OriginalGriff
You know, if this is your final project, then I would have thought that by now you would have good google-fu skills.But it would appear that your interpretation of "I searched a lot" differs from mine: I copied your question subject into Chrome's address bar and pressed ENTER...Oh, look!...
26 Jun 2014 by Agha Musa
I tried and searched a lot but haven't got much. I want to work on kinect as my final project. Any one having expertise in kinect kindly help me.regards
24 Jun 2014 by Diego Gonçalves Dias
In this short tip, I am going to teach how to create a Virtual Wall using the Kinect sensor through the Kinect Toolbox.
9 Jun 2014 by Pankaj Deharia Ignatiuz
I am using Kinect SDK 1.8, i am using default Kinect control. KinectRegion to display hand cursor of Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.Controls. But hand cursor is too fast and sensitive. i wanted it to be make it slow down, so that end user of my Kinect app can control that cursor easily on screen. i...
17 May 2014 by Member 10466515
I have to map 2d shirt image on real person captured by kinect camera-I have tried mapping with this code-My xaml code is-
11 May 2014 by Hloni Matsoso
LOL, your question is all over the placeWhat do you mean by "application will start from the first programmatically"?What do you mean by "the application should be stopped"? But it sounds like you want to track state of your app. You can start with an enum (States) with 2 states,...
11 May 2014 by Hloni Matsoso
Do you mean you want a book page flip like effect?... this would require quite a bit of mathematics to calculate angles of the current page and next page being overlayed and display respectively, but have a look at https://github.com/thinkpixellab/bot[^]It has cool WPF tricks, and a page...
11 May 2014 by Member 10807796
Yes I have done that earlier and it works thank you.
11 May 2014 by Member 10807796
The examples I have show the old beta codes, can someone help here please. I don't understand the codes hereprivate void ProcessGesture(Joint head, Joint handleft, Joint handright) { /* Microsoft.Research.Kinect.Nui.Vector vector = new...
8 May 2014 by Vangos Pterneas
Understanding Kinect Coordinate Mapping
2 May 2014 by Member 10466515
I want to display the kinect status-Connected or disconnected and the Device Connection ID. Connection ID is getting displayed,but Status is not getting displayed in Textblock My code is-mainwindow.xaml.cs-public partial class MainWindow : Window{ KinectSensor sensor; private...
1 Apr 2014 by jy071
Hi, I am Jyoti Yadav. I am working on a project which detects 3D face scans using interest points and local histograms. I am using kinect camera for taking 3D images. I am using Microsoft Visual C# express. To assist me in this project can someone please provide me a sourcecode on a similar...
25 Feb 2014 by Guru Swaroop
Kinect SDK provides us with the FaceTrackFrame class:Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.FaceTracking.FaceTrackFrame frame;After Initializing the frame object, we can get all the 121 points which are being tracked on the face, by usingframe.Get3DShape();I want to get the labels for all...
19 Feb 2014 by morther
I am developing a project that involves creating a product composed of hardware and software that enables interaction with various features.I'm still in the testing phase , however , is sent to the brain of this product is a mini computer ODROID U3 , running Xubunto 13.10.In addition to...
3 Feb 2014 by Member 10568591
Is it possible to use Microsoft Kinect SDK for coding an application to be used with Primesense Carmine 1.09 Sensor? Does the Kinect SDK recognize the hardware calibration of Primesense Carmine 1.09 especially that is Short Range 0.35M?
28 Jan 2014 by Vangos Pterneas
How to implement Kinect gestures
23 Jan 2014 by Vangos Pterneas
Kinect for Windows - find user height accurately
18 Jan 2014 by Abhijit Jana
You can change the frame interval by changing the value of ColorCameraSettings.FrameInterval property. You have to make sure the AutoExposure property is set to false while working with FrameInterval; otherwise there will have no effects on the frames.Use this like...
5 Jan 2014 by niloufar.M
I found the solution: void Kinect_DepthFrameReady(object sender, DepthImageFrameReadyEventArgs e) { using (DepthImageFrame depthFrame = e.OpenDepthImageFrame()) { if (depthFrame != null) { ...
5 Jan 2014 by niloufar.M
HelloI am new with kinect, I know how to do it in WPF but I have problem for capturing depth in windows application.I found some code as below:private void Kinect_DepthFrameReady(object sender, DepthImageFrameReadyEventArgs e){ using (DepthImageFrame depthFrame =...
3 Jan 2014 by mccaber82
Hi,I have seen the matrix held in the following property in the Kinect Skeleton data: item.BoneOrientations[JointType.ElbowRight].HierarchicalRotation.MatrixIt also has the following property: item.Joints[JointType.ElbowRight].PositionHow can you translate the information in the...
3 Jan 2014 by mccaber82
Hi,I am looking to achieve manipulation of the Kinect skeleton data on the fly. I have built an app that renders the Skeleton captured in 3D using the Helix toolkit. I use the XYZ position data for each joint to render the 3D model (a series of sphere's and cylinders to represent the...
25 Dec 2013 by niloufar.M
I'm working on a project in c# which I'm capturing color and depth frame from Kinect, then I'm doing some real-time process on them, kinect capturing with resolution 640*480 is 30FPS, but I don't need all the frames and I want to reduce the frame rate to be about 15FPS. Would you please help me...
18 Dec 2013 by Richard MacCutchan
Did you try https://www.google.com/search?q=take+points+and+arange+them+according+to+obj+file[^]?
18 Dec 2013 by Coder_Jack
I have thousands points that I took from kinect for 3D scanner. I can see the 3D shape in meshlab or blender but I want to convert all points according to .obj file format.here is an example of .obj file ;# Simple object file . This is commentv -0.500000 0.000000 0.400000v -0.500000...
3 Dec 2013 by Member 10410308
hello every1 recently i am working on a project based on real time facial animation using kinect as a sensor. i have to create an avatar which can imitate all our facial expressions and can retarget back and can you adivice me how to go forward????raaj
23 Oct 2013 by Tutankhamen-Xu
Where to find some finger-tracking sourcecode of Kinect?How can I find it?
22 Oct 2013 by Anoop Pillai
CakeRobot is a gesture driven robot that moves around based on your hand movement.