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Published:
March 23, 2011 by Administrator
Short description
The Kinect from Microsoft is a 3D camera, that uses an infrared patternprojector and an infrared camera to infer distance from that capturedpattern. It comes with a color web cam, a microphone array, anaccelerometer and a tilt unit. It has a detection range of approx. 1.2mto 3.5m.
Installation
Microsoft does not offer any drivers for Kinect, but there are two sources how to get drivers. The first one comes from an industry consortium OpenNI consisting of PrimeSense among others, who manufacture the underlying hardware of the Kinect. This consortium offers an open source middleware for ”Natural Interaction” devices, including support for the Kinect.
The other source is the libfreenect. It is a reverse engineered driver by the OpenKinect project. libfreenect is a rather lightweight library to get access to depth and color images. The following install instruction refers to this driver.
First satisfy dependencies, if not yet installed:
$ sudo apt-get install libglut3-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
Navigate to a folder of your choice, checkout the latest version from the git repository and compile it with CMake and make:
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect.git
$ cd libfreenect
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ sudo make install
Usage
The libfreenect comes with the OpenGL based sample application glview. Make sure the Kinect is properly connected, i.e. the USB is plugged and the 12V power supply is established. Go to the folder where the driver has been compiled and start it with root permissions.
$ cd <path_to_driver>/libfreenect/build/bin/
$ sudo ./glview
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