Chapter 2. Starting with Image Streams
The aim of this chapter is to understand the steps for capturing data from the color stream, depth stream, and IR stream data. The key learning tools and steps for mastering all these streams are:
color camera: data stream, event driven and polling techniques to manage color frames, image editing, color image tuning, and color image formats
depth image: data stream, depth image ranges, and mapping between color image and depth image
All the examples we will develop in this book are built on Visual Studio 2010 or 2012. In this introduction, we want to include the key steps for getting started.
From Visual Studio, select File | New | Project. In the New Project window, do the following:
Select the WPF Application Visual C# template.
Select the .Net Framework 4.0 as the framework for the project (it works in .Net Framework 4.5 too).
Assign a name to the project (in our example, we selected
Chapter02)Choose a location for the project.
Leave all the other settings...
