The document provides an overview of the Kinect for Windows Quickstart Series, which includes tutorials for installing and using the Kinect sensor, setting up a development environment, and fundamentals of camera data, depth data, skeletal tracking, and audio. It lists the tutorials that will be covered, describes the Kinect sensors and basic API usage, and provides demos for different topics.

1. QUICKSTART SERIES
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2. INSTALLING &
USING KINECT
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3. INTRODUCTION
• Designed to get you started
• Assume you have some programming
experience
• Managed API - Concepts work in both VB/C#
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4. QUICKSTART SERIES
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor
• Setting up your Development Environment
• Camera Fundamentals
• Working with Depth Data
• Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals
• Audio Fundamentals
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5. KINECT SENSORS
IR Emitter Color Sensor
IR Depth Sensor
Tilt Motor
Microphone Array
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6. GET STARTED
• http://kinectforwindows.org
• Order Kinect Hardware
• Download Kinect SDK
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7. INSTALLING AND USING KINECT
DEMO
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8. SETTING UP
YOUR DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENT
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9. QUICKSTART SERIES
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor
• Setting up your Development Environment
• Camera Fundamentals
• Working with Depth Data
• Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals
• Audio Fundamentals
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10. KINECT API BASICS
• Manage Kinect state
• Connected
• Enable Color, Depth, Skeleton
• Start Kinect
• Get Data
• Events - AllFramesReady
• Polling – OpenNextFrame
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11. RESOURCES
• Install Kinect Explorer
• KinectWpfViewers
• Coding4Fun Toolkit
• Skeletal scaling
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12. SETTING UP YOUR DEV
ENVIRONMENT
DEMO
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13. CAMERA
FUNDAMENTALS
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14. QUICKSTART SERIES
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor
• Setting up your Development Environment
• Camera Fundamentals
• Working with Depth Data
• Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals
• Audio Fundamentals
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15. CAMERA DATA
• Events return ImageFrame
• PixelDataLength
• FrameNumber
• Timestamp
• Dimensions: Height, Width
• Use AllFramesReady event to synchronize
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16. RESOLUTIONS
• Color
• 12 FPS: 1280X960 RGB
• 15 FPS: Raw YUV 640x480
• 30 FPS: 640x480
• Depth
• 30 FPS: 80x60, 320x240, 640x480
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17. CAMERA FUNDAMENTALS
DEMO
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18. WORKING WITH
DEPTH DATA
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19. QUICKSTART SERIES
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor
• Setting up your Development Environment
• Camera Fundamentals
• Working with Depth Data
• Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals
• Audio Fundamentals
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20. DEPTH DATA
• Returns the distance and player for every pixel
• Ex: 320x240 = 76,800 pixels
• Distance
• Distance in mm from Kinect ex: 2,000mm (6.56 feet)
• Player
• 1-6 players
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21. MODE
Mode Depth & Player Center Hip Joint Other 19 Joints
Default Yes Yes Yes
Near Yes Yes No, for v1.0
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22. DISTANCES
Feet 1.3’ 2.6’ 9.8’ 13.1’ 26.2’
Meters .4 .8 3 4 8
Default
Mode
Near
Mode
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23. FORMULAS
• Distance Formula
int depth = depthPoint >> DepthImageFrame.PlayerIndexBitmaskWidth;
• Player Formula
int player = depthPoint & DepthImageFrame.PlayerIndexBitmask;
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24. WORKING WITH DEPTH DATA
DEMO
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25. SKELETAL
TRACKING
FUNDAMENTALS
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26. QUICKSTART SERIES
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor
• Setting up your Development Environment
• Camera Fundamentals
• Working with Depth Data
• Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals
• Audio Fundamentals
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27. SKELETON DATA
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28. SKELETAL JOINTS
• Each player with set of <x, y, z> joints in meters
• Each joint has associated state
• Tracked, Not tracked, or Inferred
• Inferred - Occluded, clipped, or low confidence joints
• Use TransformSmoothParameters to smooth joint data to reduce
jitter
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29. SKELETAL TRACKING
• Maximum two players tracked at once
• Six player proposals per Kinect
• Each skeleton has a unique identifier - TrackingID
• SkeletonStream
• Set AppChoosesSkeletons to false
• Use ChooseSkeletons method to choose which skeletons to track
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30. SKELETAL TRACKING
DEMO
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31. AUDIO
FUNDAMENTALS
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32. QUICKSTART SERIES
• Installing and Using the Kinect Sensor
• Setting up your Development Environment
• Camera Fundamentals
• Working with Depth Data
• Skeletal Tracking Fundamentals
• Audio Fundamentals
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33. SOUND POSITION
• Sound Source Angle – the angle and confidence level of where
audio is coming from
• Beam Angle – The angle used to record audio that you can set as a
“directional microphone”
-50 0 +50
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34. RECORDING
• KinectAudioSource audio buffer
• Use Echo Cancellation to not record PC sound
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35. SPEECH RECOGNITION
• Grammar – What we are listening for
• Code – GrammarBuilder, Choices
• Note: Ensure AutomaticGainControl = false
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36. GRAMMAR
<!-- Confirmation_Yes._value: string ["Yes"]
-->
<rule id="Confirmation_Yes" scope="public">
<example> yes </example> var grammar = new Choices();
<example> yes please </example> grammar.Add(“yes please");
<one-of>
<item> yes </item>
grammar.Add(“yes");
<item> yeah </item> grammar.Add(“yeah");
<item> yep </item> grammar.Add(“ok");
<item> ok </item>
</one-of>
<item repeat="0-1"> please </item>
<tag> out._value = "Yes";</tag>
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37. MULTI-MODAL FEEDBACK
• Engagement model
– Mic indicator for speech-enabled menus
– Keyword to engage
• Feedback and confirmation
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38. AUDIO
DEMO
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