Category: Computer Vision

Practical Kinect Stereo Calibration for the Highest Accuracy

I’ve been meaning to write up this post for a while, but I’ve been putting it off 🙂 The release of the Kinect sensor by Microsoft spawned a plethora of research in robotics, computer vision and many other fields. Many of these attempts involved using Kinect for purposes other that what it was originally meant for! That pretty …

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Align Depth and Color Frames – Depth and RGB Registration

Sometimes it is necessary to create a point cloud from a given depth and color (RGB) frame. This is especially the case when a scene is captured using depth cameras such as Kinect. The process of aligning the depth and the RGB frame is called “registration” and it is very easy to do (and the …

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