Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

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

• 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.

In Detail

Kinect has been a game-changer in the world of motion games and applications since its first release. It has been touted as a controller for Microsoft Xbox but is much more than that. The developer version, Kinect for Windows SDK, provides developers with the tools to develop applications that run on Windows. You can use this to develop applications that make interaction with your computer hands-free.

This book focuses on developing applications using the developer version of Kinect called Kinect for Windows SDK. It is a complete end to end solution using all the features of Kinect for Windows SDK. You will learn to develop applications in Kinect and give them a 3D effect by using the depth sensor, change angles by using camera sensor. The book will also help you develop motion sensitive and speech recognition enabled applications.

The book begins with explaining the basic requirements and setting up Kinect for Windows SDK. You will be surprised at how quickly the book takes you through the Kinect APIs classification. You will use NUI to use the Kinect for Natural Inputs like skeleton tracking, sensing, and depth measuring.

You will capture different types of video, and images, handle video stream event, and capture frame. Kinect device contains a motorized tilt to control camera angles, which you will learn to use. The last part of the book teaches you to develop a music player using Audio API where source is Kinect Device and then use the speech recognition too.

What will you learn from this book

• 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

Approach

This book is a practical tutorial that explains different features of Kinect for Windows SDK by creating sample applications throughout the book

Who this book is written for

If you are looking to develop motion sensing, speech recognizing applications with Kinect, then this book is for you.

This book uses C# and WPF in the examples, so you need to know the basics of C# and WPF. You don't have to know anything about Kinect for Windows SDK.

使用Microsoft的Kinect for Windows SDK快速且容易地建立動作感應應用程式。

- 使用Kinect for Windows SDK建立應用程式。
- 包含Kinect for Windows SDK v1.6。
- 提供初學者易於學習的實用逐步教程。
- 詳細討論所有相關的API並詳細解釋其用法。
- 開發動作感應應用程式的程序以及啟用語音識別的方法。

詳細內容：
Kinect自首次發布以來一直是運動遊戲和應用程式領域的改變者。它被譽為Microsoft Xbox的控制器，但它不僅僅是如此。開發者版本Kinect for Windows SDK為開發人員提供了在Windows上運行的應用程式開發工具。您可以使用它來開發與電腦無需手部操作的應用程式。

本書專注於使用開發者版本Kinect for Windows SDK開發應用程式。它是一個完整的端到端解決方案，使用Kinect for Windows SDK的所有功能。您將學習在Kinect中開發應用程式，並通過使用深度感應器為其添加3D效果，使用攝像頭感應器改變角度。本書還將幫助您開發動作感應和語音識別啟用的應用程式。

本書首先解釋了基本要求並設置Kinect for Windows SDK。您會驚訝地發現本書如何快速地帶您瀏覽Kinect API的分類。您將使用NUI來使用Kinect進行自然輸入，例如骨架追踪、感應和深度測量。

您將捕獲不同類型的視頻和圖像，處理視頻流事件並捕獲幀。Kinect設備包含一個可調節攝像頭角度的馬達，您將學習如何使用它。本書的最後一部分將教您使用音頻API開發音樂播放器，其中源是Kinect設備，然後使用語音識別工具。

您將從本書中學到什麼：
- 了解Kinect感應器的設備、不同組件以及它們的工作原理。
- 逐步安裝指南、疑難排解提示和開發環境設置。
- 讀取Kinect設備信息，監視並通知感應器狀態變化。
- 自動調整感應器仰角。
- 了解從Kinect感應器捕獲數據流的不同方法。
- 學習使用彩色、深度和IR數據以及如何在應用程式中利用它們。
- 使用骨架追踪進行交互式應用程式並將應用程式轉換為手勢啟用的應用程式。
- 了解麥克風陣列的用途並使用語音API構建語音啟用的應用程式。
- 使用多個Kinect開發應用程式。
- 了解如何使用Kinect設計跨設備應用程式。

這本書的特點：
本書是一本實用的教程，通過在整本書中創建示例應用程式來解釋Kinect for Windows SDK的不同功能。

本書的讀者：
如果您想開發具有動作感應和語音識別功能的Kinect應用程式，那麼這本書適合您。

本書的示例使用C＃和WPF，因此您需要了解C＃和WPF的基礎知識。您不需要了解Kinect for Windows SDK的任何內容。