An overview of what a Kinect-like device is, with videos to show how they work and which applications take advantage of them. At the end, two slides explain how I use this kind of devices in my research field.
Kinect-like Devices: Principles, Brands and Cross-Applications
1. Kinect-like devices
Principles, Brands and Cross-Field Applications
Vito Gentile, PhD Student
vito [dot] gentile [at] unipa [dot] it
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Gestionale, Informatica e Meccanica (DICGIM)
2. 1. What is a Kinect-like device?
2. How do Kinect-like devices work?
3. Which applications can take advantage of
Kinect-like devices?
4. How do I use Kinect-like devices in my
research?
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4. Source: Gentile, V., Sorce, S., & Gentile, A. (2014). Continuous Hand Openness Detection
Using a Kinect-Like Device. In Eighth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and
Software Intensive Systems (CISIS) (pp. 553–557). Birmingham, UK: IEEE.
doi:10.1109/CISIS.2014.80
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10. Source: How the Kinect Depth Sensor Works in 2 Minutes, http://youtu.be/uq9SEJxZiUg
15. Source: Shotton, Jamie, et al. "Real-time human pose recognition in parts from single
depth images." Communications of the ACM 56.1 (2013): 116-124.
27. Kinect-like devices
Principles, Brands and Cross-Field Applications
1. What is a Kinect-like device?
2. How do Kinect-like devices work?
3. Which applications can take advantage of
Kinect-like devices?
4. How do I use Kinect-like devices in my
research?
Thank you!
28. Copyright Notes
• Most of the videos and images used on these
slides are taken from the Internet.
• If you are the owner of some photos, and you
want to:
– be cited
– ask to remove your files
– simply send me ideas or comments
please contact me at:
vito [dot] gentile [at] unipa [dot] it