Kinect Color and Kinect Depth streams - a way to match them well?

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Hey gang!

Super simple on the surface, vexing in reality.

Trying to take the live kinect color image and then use the depth mask to cut/mask the image. (Just like a tv chroma key)

Works great, except for the giant border around the user, I am assuming this is due to the infra-red and color cams having different focal lengths/angles/offset.

Have been able to correct SOME but is still not very good. Particularly when dealing with closer/farther distance from the Kinect.

( BTW NI-mate seems to have the "trick" down to get the two streams to line up just super-sexy-right) I use this alot and it works very nice.

Has anybody figured out a QC-only way to do this and get the two streams tight?

thanks jd

vade's picture
Re: Kinect Color and Kinect Depth streams - a way to match ...

If you use my Kinect plugin (see github.com/v002/ ) you can enable automatic depth unprojection for proper orthographic depth in your 3D world (rather than perspective, re-projected depth), and automatic color rectification.