Kinect Skeleton Experiments

Processing experiments 💭 around skeleton tracking 💀 with Kinect 📹

Goal

Provide a "starter kit" for Kinect skeleton tracking, and adding some cool features ! 💥

Ideas

• A skeleton moving with "easing movements" ➰
• Faces, arms, legs... draw and projected on a skeleton 👹
• A hand-drawer skeleton ✏️
• A skeleton interacting with generate environment (or 3D objets) 🙌
• Skeletons interacting with each others 💀👉💀

Debugging Mode

The function displayInfos(boolean) allows you to see if the Kinect detects users, what are the numbers of users, if the tracking is successful...etc. You can turn it on/off with true or false as a parameter.

Models and Versions

• Currently working with Kinect V1 (Model 1414) but I will add a Kinect V2 version in the future.
• Processing version : 2.2.1 (if you are using Kinect V2 -> 3.2.4)
• For Kinect V2 -> Windows 8 or Windows 10 and Kinect V2 SDK

Libraries

For Kinect V1 (Xbox 360, model 1414)

• Simple OpenNI (version 1.96)
• OpenCV for Processing
• Blob Detection by Julien Gachadoat

For Kinect V2 (Xbox One, model 1520)

• Kinect PV2 by Thomas Sanchez Lengeling

To Do

• Write a better kinect class, more clear and easier to use
• Add a Kinect V2 version
• Add face tracking to skeleton (V2 only) + draw the face

References

[Making Things See] (http://makingthingssee.com/) by Greg Borenstein

Licence

GNU 3.0