Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By: Abhijit Jana

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eText | 26 December 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Build motion-sensing applications with Microsoft's Kinect for Windows SDK quickly and easily with this book and ebook.

Key Features

Building application using Kinect for Windows SDK.
Covers the Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6
A practical step-by-step tutorial to make learning easy for a beginner.
A detailed discussion of all the APIs involved and the explanations of their usage in detail
Procedures for developing motion-sensing applications and also methods used to enable speech recognition

Book Description

Build motion-sensing applications with Microsoft's Kinect for Windows SDK quickly and easily with this book and ebook.

What you will learn

Understand the Kinect sensor in terms of a device, different components, and how they work.
Step by step installation guide of SDK, troubleshooting tips and development environment setup.
Reading the Kinect device information, monitoring and notifying the sensor status change.
Automatically adjust the sensor elevation angle
Understand different approaches of capturing data stream from Kinect sensor.
Learn the uses of color, depth and IR data and how to leverage them in your applications.
Use skeleton-tracking for interactive applications and leveraging the applications to gesture-enabled application
Understand usages of Microphone array and build speech-enabled applications with Speech API
Develop applications using Multiple Kinects
Understand how to design cross device application with Kinect

Who this book is for

The purpose of this book is to explain how to develop applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. If you are a beginner and looking to start developing applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK, and if you want to build motion-sensing,speech-recognizing applications with Kinect, this book is for you.This book uses C# and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) in the examples, so you need to know the basics of C# and WPF. You should be familiar with the Visual Studio IDE as well. You don't have to know anything about the Kinect for Windows SDK.