Making Things See, 1Ed

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Making Things See, 1Ed

Learn to build interactive applications for Kinect using this hands-on vision technology.

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Make: Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot . Welcome to the Vision Revolution. With Microsoft's Kinect leading the way, you can now use 3D computer vision technology to build digital 3D models of people and objects that you can manipulate with gestures and spoken commands. This hands-on guide provides all the technical and conceptual information you need to build cool applications for Kinect, using the Processing programming language and the Arduino microcontroller.

Whether you're a student, hobbyist, maker, gamer, or hardware hacker, Making Things See gets you off and running with several Kinect projects, and gives you the skills and experience you need to build your own fun and creative projects with this magical 3D computer vision technology. Unlock your ability to build interactive applications with Kinect.

Learn about face recognition, gait analysis, and depth imaging
Analyze and manipulate point clouds
Track people with skeletonization and pose detection, and use blob tracking to detect objects
Use gestural interfaces for assistive technology
Create models for design and fabrication, using 3D scanning technology and a 3D printer
Delve into motion tracking for animation and games
Build every project in this book with inexpensive off-the-shelf components

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Greg Borenstein

After a decade as a musician, web programmer, and startup founder, Greg Borenstein recently moved to New York to become an artist and teacher. His work explores the use of special effects as an artistic medium. He is fascinated by how special effects techniques cross the boundary between images and the physical objects that make them: miniatures, motion capture, 3D animation, animatronics, and digital fabrication. He is currently a grad student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

How To Assemble

Chapter 1 What Is the Kinect?
1. How Does It Work? Where Did It Come From?
2. Kinect Artists
Chapter 2 Working with the Depth Image
1. Images and Pixels
2. Project 1: Installing the SimpleOpenNI Processing Library
3. Project 2: Your First Kinect Program
4. Project 3: Looking at a Pixel
5. Converting to Real-World Distances
6. Project 4: A Wireless Tape Measure
7. Project 5: Tracking the Nearest Object
8. Projects
9. Project 6: Invisible Pencil
10. Project 7: Minority Report Photos
11. Exercises
Chapter 3 Working with Point Clouds
1. What You'll Learn in This Chapter
2. Welcome to the Third Dimension
3. Drawing Our First Point Cloud
4. Making the Point Cloud Move
5. Viewing the Point Cloud in Color
6. Making the Point Cloud Interactive
7. Projects
8. Project 8: Air Drum Kit
9. Project 9: Virtual Kinect
10. Conclusion
Chapter 4 Working with the Skeleton Data
1. A Note About Calibration
2. Stages in the Calibration Process
3. User Detection
4. Accessing Joint Positions
5. Skeleton Anatomy Lesson
6. Measuring the Distance Between Two Joints
7. Transferring Orientation in 3D
8. Background Removal, User Pixels, and the Scene Map
9. Tracking Without Calibration: Hand Tracking and Center of Mass
10. Projects
11. Project 10: Exercise Measurement
12. Project 11: ï¾Stayin' Aliveï¾ Dance Move Triggers MP3
13. Conclusion
Chapter 5 Scanning for Fabrication
1. Scan and Print: Rapid Prototyping Objects
2. Intro to Modelbuilder
3. Intro to MeshLab
4. Making a Mesh from the Kinect Data
5. Looking at Our First Scan
6. Cleaning Up the Mesh
7. Looking at Our Corrected Model
8. Prepping for Printing
9. Reduce Polygons in MeshLab
10. Printing Our Model on a MakerBot
11. Sending Our Model to Shapeways
12. Conclusion: Comparing Prints
Chapter 6 Using the Kinect for Robotics
1. Forward Kinematics
2. Inverse Kinematics
3. Conclusion
Chapter 7 Conclusion: What's Next?
1. Beyond Processing: Other Frameworks and Languages
2. Topics in 3D Programming to Explore
3. Ideas for Projects

Appendix Appendix
1. SimpleOpenNI Cheat Sheet
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 6
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Specifications

Greg Borenstein

How To Assemble

Chapter 1 What Is the Kinect?

How Does It Work? Where Did It Come From?

Kinect Artists

Chapter 2 Working with the Depth Image

Images and Pixels

Project 1: Installing the SimpleOpenNI Processing Library

Project 2: Your First Kinect Program

Project 3: Looking at a Pixel

Converting to Real-World Distances

Project 4: A Wireless Tape Measure

Project 5: Tracking the Nearest Object

Projects

Project 6: Invisible Pencil

Project 7: Minority Report Photos

Exercises

Chapter 3 Working with Point Clouds

What You'll Learn in This Chapter

Welcome to the Third Dimension

Drawing Our First Point Cloud

Making the Point Cloud Move

Viewing the Point Cloud in Color

Making the Point Cloud Interactive

Projects

Project 8: Air Drum Kit

Project 9: Virtual Kinect

Conclusion

Chapter 4 Working with the Skeleton Data

A Note About Calibration

Stages in the Calibration Process

User Detection

Accessing Joint Positions

Skeleton Anatomy Lesson

Measuring the Distance Between Two Joints

Transferring Orientation in 3D

Background Removal, User Pixels, and the Scene Map

Tracking Without Calibration: Hand Tracking and Center of Mass

Projects

Project 10: Exercise Measurement

Project 11: ï¾Stayin' Aliveï¾ Dance Move Triggers MP3

Conclusion

Chapter 5 Scanning for Fabrication

Scan and Print: Rapid Prototyping Objects

Intro to Modelbuilder

Intro to MeshLab

Making a Mesh from the Kinect Data

Looking at Our First Scan

Cleaning Up the Mesh

Looking at Our Corrected Model

Prepping for Printing

Reduce Polygons in MeshLab

Printing Our Model on a MakerBot

Sending Our Model to Shapeways

Conclusion: Comparing Prints

Chapter 6 Using the Kinect for Robotics

Forward Kinematics

Inverse Kinematics

Conclusion

Chapter 7 Conclusion: What's Next?

Beyond Processing: Other Frameworks and Languages

Topics in 3D Programming to Explore

Ideas for Projects

Appendix Appendix

SimpleOpenNI Cheat Sheet

Chapter 2

Chapter 4

Chapter 6

Colophon

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Project 11: ï¾Stayin' Aliveï¾ Dance Move Triggers MP3