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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

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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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Abhijit Jana Abhijit Jana
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Skeleton-tracking mode


The fundamental purpose of skeleton tracking is to track the body's joint points, and so far what we have seen is tracking skeleton joints for a complete body when a player is standing in front of the sensor. This is what the skeleton-tracking engine tracks by default. We can control the selection mode of skeleton tracking programmatically by using the TrackingMode property of the SkeletonStream class. TrackingMode is a type of the SkeletonTrackingMode enumeration, which has the following values:

  • Default

  • Seated

Note

You can use only one tracking mode at a time. The tracking-mode selection can be done during the enabling of the skeleton stream or on the fly when required. If you are applying both, the latter one will take preference.

Default skeleton tracking

When you enable the skeleton stream, the SDK sets TrackingMode to Default automatically. So, you really don't need to set the Default mode explicitly. In this tracking mode, the Kinect sensor can track a maximum of 20...

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