Easily customizeable kinect mouse

fxmech

Easily customizeable kinect mouse

in Integration and Hardware • 1 year 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

1 year ago

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

fxmech

Re: Easily customizeable kinect mouse

1 year 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

1 year 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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