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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692380
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhijit Jana Abhijit Jana
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Understanding the Kinect Device 2. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 3. Starting to Build Kinect Applications 4. Getting the Most out of Kinect Camera 5. The Depth Data – Making Things Happen 6. Human Skeleton Tracking 7. Using Kinect's Microphone Array 8. Speech Recognition 9. Building Gesture-controlled Applications 10. Developing Applications Using Multiple Kinects 11. Putting Things Together Index

Looking inside skeleton stream helpers


The SDK provides an ample amount of APIs to interact with the sensors and play around with skeleton data. There are several classes and structures associated with skeleton tracking. SkeletonFrame and SkeletonStream are the two classes that actually take care of skeleton data processing. They are the core of skeleton stream data. Unlike color and depth streams, these two classes are not derived from ImageFrame and ImageStream because the skeleton data is not an image frame. Let's focus on the individual class members and their uses.

The skeleton frame

The SkeletonFrame class is a sealed class and contains the individual skeleton information that is tracked by the sensor. This class defines the properties and methods for working with skeleton frames. Like ImageFrame for color and depth images, SkeletonFrame represents a single frame from SkeletonStream. The OpenSkeletonFrame() method of SkeletonFrameReadyEventArgs returns the current SkeletonFrame from...

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