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Kinect in Motion – Audio and Visual Tracking by Example
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The book includes a series of step-by-step illustrated tutorials supported by detailed explanations for building a multimodal user interface based on Kinect for Windows. Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example is great for developers new to the Kinect for Windows SDK, and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to master video and audio tracking. It's assumed that you have some experience in C# and XAML already.
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1. Kinect for Windows – Hardware and SDK Overview
Motion computing and Kinect
Hardware overview
The IR projector
Depth camera
The RGB camera
Tilt motor and three-axis accelerometer
Microphone array
Software architecture
Video stream
Depth stream
Audio stream
Skeleton
Summary
2. Starting with Image Streams
Color stream
Editing the colored image
Image tuning
The color image formats
The Infrared color image format
The raw Bayer formats
YUV raw format
Depth stream
DepthRange – the default and near mode
Extended range
Mapping from the color frame to the depth frame
Summary
3. Skeletal Tracking
Tracking users
Copying the skeleton data
Default and Seated mode
Detecting simple actions
Joint rotations
Summary
4. Speech Recognition
Speech recognition
Grammars
A simple grammar sample
The Microsoft.Speech library
Tracking audio sources
Sound source angle
Beam angle
Summary
A. Kinect Studio and Audio Recording
Kinect Studio – capturing Kinect data
Audio stream data – recording and injecting
Summary
Index
Kinect in Motion – Audio and Visual Tracking by Example
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Clemente Giorio
Massimo Fascinari
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Atul Gupta
Mandresh Shah
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About the Authors
Clemente Giorio is an independent Consultant; he cooperated with Microsoft SrL for the development of a prototype that uses the Kinect sensor. He is interested in Human-computer Interface (HCI) and multimodal interaction.
Massimo Fascinari is a Solution Architect at Avanade, where he designs and delivers software development solutions to companies throughout the UK and Ireland. His interest in Kinect and human-machine interaction started during his research on increasing the usability and adoption of collaboration solutions.
About the Reviewers
With more than 17 years of experience working on Microsoft technologies, Atul Gupta is currently a Principal Technology Architect at Infosys' Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Labs. His expertise spans user experience and user interface technologies, and he is currently working on touch and gestural interfaces with technologies such as Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Kinect. He has prior experience in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Windows 7, Deepzoom, Pivot, PixelSense, and Windows Phone 7.
He has co-authored the book ASP.NET 4 Social Networking (http://www.packtpub.com/asp-net-4-social-networking/book). Earlier in his career, he also worked on technologies such as COM, DCOM, C, VC++, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, and ASP.NET MVC. He is a regular reviewer for Packt Publishing and has reviewed books on topics such as Silverlight, Generics, and Kinect.
He has authored papers for industry publications and websites, some of which are available on Infosys' Technology Showcase (http://www.infosys.com/microsoft/resource-center/pages/technology-showcase.aspx). Along with colleagues from Infosys, Atul blogs at http://www.infosysblogs.com/microsoft. Being actively involved in professional Microsoft online communities and developer forums, Atul has received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award for multiple years in a row.
Mandresh Shah is a developer and architect working in the Avanade group for Accenture Services. He has IT industry experience of over 14 years and has been predominantly working on Microsoft technologies. He has experience on all aspects of the software development lifecycle and is skilled in design, implementation, technical consulting, and application lifecycle management. He has designed and developed software for some of the leading private and public sector companies and has built industry ex...
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