Multiple Kinect Studies Yannic Schröder, Alexander Scholz, Kai Berger, Kai Ruhl, Stefan Guthe, Marcus Magnor

Yannic Schröder, Alexander Scholz, Kai Berger, Kai Ruhl, Stefan Guthe, and Marcus Magnor: "Multiple Kinect Studies", Technical Report no. 09-15, ICG, October 2011. Part of project "Multiple Kinect Studies". [pdf] [bib]

Abstract

The Microsoft Kinect is a new color-depth (RGB-D) tracking device designed
for home entertainment. With its great performance and low price compared
to state-of-the-art depth tracking systems it is the target of a variety of
academic research.
We investigate the possibilities of using multiple Kinects in the same environment
for capturing opaque and translucent objects in motion. Arising
issues with the laser subsystems interfering with each other are solved using
fast rotating disks, creating a time division multiple access (TDMA) scenario.
We also introduce an algorithm to evaluate the quality of captured
depth images and compare the quality of depth images created with our
multiplexing technique to depth images obtained without multiplexing.

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