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Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example

You're reading from   Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example Start building for the Kinect today by capturing gestures, movements, and spoken voice commands

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849697187
Length 112 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kinect in Motion – Audio and Visual Tracking by Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Kinect for Windows – Hardware and SDK Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Starting with Image Streams 3. Skeletal Tracking 4. Speech Recognition Kinect Studio and Audio Recording Index

Default and Seated mode


As we saw in the previous chapter, the Kinect for Windows SDK provides a near-range feature in order to track people close to the sensor.

First of all, in order to activate the near tracking mode we need to enable the near-range feature by setting the sensor.DepthStream.Range property to DepthRange.Near; then by setting the sensor.SkeletonStream property to true.

This mode usually, in addition to tracking users in the range 0.4 – 0.8 m, allows for greater accuracy up to 3 m than the Default mode.

For scenarios where the user to be tracked is seated, or the lower part of his/her body is not entirely visible to the sensor, we can enable the Seated mode by setting the sensor.SkeletonStream.TrackingMode property to SkeletonTrackingMode.Seated. With this mode, the APIs track only the upper-body part's joints and will get a NotTracked status for all of the remaining joints.

The following image highlights the twenty joint points for the Default mode and joints ten joint...

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