Pluralsight – Building a Real Application With Kinect

In this course we learn how to use the Kinect and Kinect SDK to build a real application that takes advantage of the Kinect’s color camera and depth detection and uses gestures and audio commands to control the application.
Content:
Meet The Kinect

Introduction
Who This Course Is For
What We’ll Be Building
Course Overview
Kinect Versions
Hardware Overview
Color Camera
IR Emitter
Microphone Array
Title Motor
Setting Up The Kinect
Installing The SDK
Plugging In The Kinect
The Kinect Toolkit
Kinect Explorer
Technology Choices
Creating The Windows Forms Project
Connecting To The Kinect
Adding Status
WPF Version Setup
Up Next

Capturing Image Data

Introduction
What We’ll Be Building
Breaking It Down
Kinect Camera Basics
Designing The UI
Taking a Picture
Testing Taking Pictures
Images And Bitmaps
Kinect RGB Data
Creating a Bitmap
Creating Video
The Easy Way
Image Effects
Adding Grayscale
Drawing a Shape
Testing Drawing Shapes
Up Next

Capturing Depth Data

Introduction
What We’ll Be Building
Breaking It Down
Kinect Depth Data Basics
Depth Stream Data
Capturing Depth Data
Detecting Humans
Testing Human Recognition
Near Mode
How Depth Detection Works
Getting All Frames
Colorizing Pixels On Depth
The Alignment Problem
Mapping Depth To Color
Testing Mapping
Improving The Mapping
Up Next

Tracking Gestures

Introduction
What We’ll Be Building
Breaking It Down
Skeleton Stream Basics
Tracking The Stream
Testing Hand Tracking
Mapping The Coordinates
Drawing On The Screen
Fixing The Position
How Skeleton Tracking Works
Tracking a Chop
Detecting a Chop
Continuing A Chop
Completing The Chop
Testing Chopping
Finishing Up
Final Test
Up Next

Adding Audio Commands

Introduction
What We’ll Be Building
Breaking It Down
Kinect Audio Basics
Installing The SDK
Getting The Kinect Recognizer
Simple Audio Test
Testing
Grammars
Recognizing Colors
Implementing Colored Shapes
Adding Shape Grammar
Making Shapes
Testing Shapes
XML Grammar
Stop Command
Next Steps
The End