How to make live video feed the background for my sketch?

shameer91

Hi,

I am trying to use a Kinect to grab a live video feed and use it as a background to then 'drag and drop' images around on top of this live video feed.

I have the libraries openkinect and SimpleOpenNI installed.

Does anyone have any code/know how to get this video feed as a background for me to work on top of?

Any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks

tina

I learned much from: 1) http://ericmedine.com/tutorials/LECTURE_kinect_hacking.htm 2) http://shiffman.net/p5/kinect/

Here's a basic sketch that works on my setup (Kinect Model 1414, Mac OS 10.6.8, Processing 2.0.3, OpenKinect):

import org.openkinect.*;
import org.openkinect.processing.*;

Kinect kinect; // Kinect Library object

// Size of kinect image
int w = 640;
int h = 480;

public void setup() {
  size(w, h);
  kinect = new Kinect(this);
  kinect.start();
  kinect.enableRGB(true); // camera
}

public void draw() {
  PImage img = kinect.getVideoImage();
  image(img, 0, 0);

  ellipse(mouseX, mouseY, 20, 20); // draw your images here
}

public void stop() {
  kinect.quit();
}