[GEM-dev] videoKINECT plugin for pix_video

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

And an OpenNI skeleton object would be awesome also!  I was using  
OSCeleton and it works well, you could use that source as a basis of a  
[kinect_multi_skeleton] object.  That could probably be a regular pd  
object, not a Gem object, since the data is just lists of coordinates.

.hc

On Mar 21, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Matthias Kronlachner wrote:

> hi!
>
> it would not be too difficult to make a separate pix_kinect object  
> that does not depend on pix_video,
> but i think it would be good if pix_video is working with the  
> pluginsystem not only on linux and to keep the videoKINECT idea.
>
> beside:
> i found a nice smoothing trick for the depth image: http://www.morethantechnical.com/2011/03/05/neat-opencv-smoothing-trick-when-kineacking-kinect-hacking-w-code/
> a pix_opencv_inpaint object therefore would be good.
>
> in vvvv there is an object Kinect Multi Skeleton that outputs the  
> depth image AND the skeleton data based on openNI.
> maybe a similar object for gem with the openNI framework would be  
> more useful than the libfreenect approach. (because you can't  
> connect 2 times to the kinect if you want sceleton and depth image)
> i'll have a look on that...
>
>
> matthias
>
> Am 21.03.11 21:52, schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>>
>> Hey Matthias,
>>
>> Seems our problems are bigger than this plugin.  We are having  
>> trouble on getting pix_video working at all on both Mac OS X 10.5.8  
>> and 10.6 with the latest Gem from svn.  I'm using Pd-extended  
>> nightly 0.43-20110318 and Sofy is using 0.43-20110119.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Matthias Kronlachner wrote:
>>
>>> you tried it with the latest Gem from svn?
>>>
>>> the videoKINECT.so file seems to be not linked against libfreenect.
>>> i could not find where to include this in the configure/make  
>>> system and entered it manually in the makefile - this should of  
>>> course be corrected.
>>> but that cannot be the reason for the "no method for driver".
>>>
>>> Am 21.03.11 20:53, schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>>>>
>>>> I just built it for Mac OS X, but when I try the  
>>>> [driver( message, it says "no method for driver". I attached my  
>>>> binary, if anyone wants to try it.
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 20, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Matthias Kronlachner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> i am working on a videoKINECT plugin for pix_video.
>>>>> it depends on libfreenect.
>>>>> the current result can be found here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://home.eduhi.at/just4fun/matzisoft/homepage/downloads/videoKINECT.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>> maybe somebody with experience in coding c++ will have a look at  
>>>>> it and
>>>>> improve it?
>>>>>
>>>>> it's currently NOT possible to open 2 pix_video with the kinect  
>>>>> plugin.
>>>>> you can choose between rgb or depth image.
>>>>>
>>>>> have a look at provided videoKINECT-help.pd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> matthias
>>>>>
>>>>>
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