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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

You're reading from Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849692380

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Abhijit Jana

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

Taking Kinect to the Cloud

When you take Kinect to the Cloud, the sky is the limit for making applications. In this section we will discuss how to design a very simple application that can upload image frames to the Cloud using Windows Azure.

Required components

To build this solution, we will be using the following technologies:

Windows Azure
Windows Azure SDK
Kinect device and the Kinect for Windows SDK

The following diagram shows the overall application design. This diagram describes how the Kinect device is connected with Windows Azure Storage via the Kinect for Windows SDK and Windows Azure SDK:

Windows Azure

We will use Windows Azure cloud storage for read/write operations of the image streams. Windows Azure storage has Blobs, Tables and Queues.

Blobs are used for storing larger files, which can be uploaded or downloaded as chunks called a blob. As of today, blobs allow you to store files up to 1 TB.

Tables should not be confused with the SQL Azure tables. The Azure storage table is similar...

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Authors (1)

Abhijit Jana

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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