Features of the Kinect for Windows SDK
Well, as of now we have discussed the components of the Kinect SDK, system requirements, installation of SDK, and setting up of devices. Now it's time to have a quick look at the top-level features of Kinect for Windows SDK.
The Kinect SDK provides a library to directly interact with the camera sensors, the microphone array, and the motor. We can even extend an application for gesture recognition using our body motion, and also enable an application with the capability of speech recognition. The following is the list of operations that you can perform with Kinect SDK. We will be discussing each of them in subsequent chapters.
Capturing and processing the color image data stream
Processing the depth image data stream
Capturing the infrared stream
Tracking human skeleton and joint movements
Human gesture recognition
Capturing the audio stream
Enabling speech recognition
Adjusting the Kinect sensor angle
Getting data from the accelerometer
Controlling the infrared...
