Easily customizeable kinect mouse

Easily customizeable kinect mouse

in Integration and Hardware • 8 months ago

I need to make a kinect mouse for windows. I've found a few out there but they all work off of hand jestures.

For this application I need to read other joint data such as shoulder movement but the values get mapped back to mouse cursor control. Can someone suggest any applications or libraries that I could use?

I know it's not a big modification from an original mouse kinect controller but I am more of an arduino user and my processing knowledge is still limited... I'd like to find the easiest approach that will get me what I need...any suggestions?

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amnon.owed

Re: Easily customizeable kinect mouse

8 months ago

SimpleOpenNI has skeletal tracking and thus has multiple joints to choose from.

fxmech

Re: Easily customizeable kinect mouse

8 months ago

I was looking at open ni but the examples I saw seem to treat the shoulders as a single unit.

It draws the shoulders as a single bar and shrugging doesn't seem to generate a change in the skeleton line drawing... Is this standard for kinnect or is it just not configured to show those moves...needless to say they are the moves I really needed :(

amnon.owed

Re: Easily customizeable kinect mouse

8 months ago

See the User3D example. I think it has some pretty specific joints. Perhaps you could calculate the angle between shoulder joint and torso/neck or the angle between the two shoulders joints.

  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_HEAD, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_NECK);

  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_NECK, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_SHOULDER);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_SHOULDER, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_ELBOW);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_ELBOW, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_HAND);

  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_NECK, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_SHOULDER);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_SHOULDER, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_ELBOW);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_ELBOW, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_HAND);

  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_SHOULDER, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_TORSO);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_SHOULDER, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_TORSO);

  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_TORSO, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_HIP);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_HIP, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_KNEE);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_KNEE, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_LEFT_FOOT);

  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_TORSO, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_HIP);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_HIP, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_KNEE);
  drawLimb(userId, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_KNEE, SimpleOpenNI.SKEL_RIGHT_FOOT);

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