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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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.NET

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Abhijit Jana

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

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 the Kinect SDK

The Kinect SDK provides both managed and unmanaged libraries. If you are developing an application using either C# or VB.NET, you can directly invoke the .NET Kinect Runtime APIs; and for C++ applications, you have to interact with the Native Kinect Runtime APIs. Both the types of APIs can talk to the Kinect drivers that are installed as a part of SDK installation.

Note

The unmanaged and managed libraries provide access to the same set of Kinect sensor features.

For managed code, the Kinect for Windows SDK provides Dynamic Link Library (DLL) as an assembly (Microsoft.Kinect.dll), which can be added to any application that wants to use the Kinect device. You can find this assembly in the SDK installation directory, as shown in the next screenshot:

The Kinect driver can control the camera, depth sensor, audio microphone array, and the motor. Data passes between the sensor and the application in the form of data streams of the following types:

Color data stream
Depth...

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Authors (1)

Abhijit Jana

Abhijit Jana is a technology leader, strategist, solution architect, development consultant, and trusted technology advisor with 14 years of experience in the IT industry, with expertise in development, architecting, engineering, consulting, services delivery, leadership, and mentoring. He is currently associated with West Pharmaceutical Services as the director of software engineering and is responsible for building, managing, and leading the overall application development and software engineering team. Before West, he was associated with Microsoft and is a former MVP. There, he managed several complex projects and delivered solutions to enterprise customers worldwide. He has been a speaker at various technology conferences and several IITs across India.

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