Kinect “Where to start?”

Let’s get directly Into the Core of this Blog post,

1^st Get a Kinect For windows unit.

2^nd Download the SDK and the Toolkit which you will find here.

3^rd Play Around with the toolkit where you will find a lot of helpful resources and demo`s.

Then let’s make a simple application to display the data from the RGB camera.

1. Create a new WPF Project.
2. Add reference to the Kinect Library
   
3. add “using Microsoft.Kinect; “
4. initialize sensor :

           KinectSensor Kinect;

   privatevoid Window_Loaded_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

           {

   if (KinectSensor.KinectSensors.Count < 1)

               {

                   MessageBox.Show("No Kinect Sensor Attached");

               }

   else

               {

                   startkinect();

               }

           }

   privatevoid startkinect()

           {

   //Link The 1st Kinect 

               Kinect = KinectSensor.KinectSensors.FirstOrDefault();

   //Enable Color Stream

               Kinect.ColorStream.Enable();

   //Start Sensor

               Kinect.Start();

               Kinect.AllFramesReady += Kinect_AllFramesReady;

           }

5. At MainWindows.xaml add Image with width=320 Height=240 and Name = RGB .
   
6. Now lets link the RGB Data To the Image frame.

   void Kinect_AllFramesReady(object sender, AllFramesReadyEventArgs e)
           {
               colorFrame(e);
           }privatevoid colorFrame(AllFramesReadyEventArgs e)
           {using (ColorImageFrame ColorFrame = e.OpenColorImageFrame())
               {if (ColorFrame == null)
                   {return;
                   }byte [] Pixels = newbyte[ColorFrame.PixelDataLength] ;
                   ColorFrame.CopyPixelDataTo(Pixels);int stride = ColorFrame.Width*4;
                   RGB.Source = BitmapSource.Create(ColorFrame.Width
                   ,ColorFrame.Height,96,96,PixelFormats.Bgr32,null,Pixels
                   ,stride);
               }
           }

7. One last thing don’t forget to close the Kinect When You are Done :)

   privatevoid Window_Closing_1(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)

           {

               Kinect.Stop();

               Kinect = null;

           }

8. Now You are all done,lets run It.
9. You should be seeing a Video for what ever in front of the Kinect.

And that’s all you are Done with your 1st application , If you have any questions don’t hesitate To ask me