Kinect for windows sdk skeleton

There are a number of example programs that show you how to display a complete skeleton complete with different color coding for different limbs. This is impressive but it doesn't make it easy to see what the operating principles are. The example program in this article does just one thing - it tracks a players head. This might not seem as impressive but it is easy to follow and once you can track a head the rest of the body, the complete skeleton becomes easy.

We first need to construct a program that displays the video from the camera so that we can mark the position of the player's head. This just the basic video display program that was introduced in Part 1 of this series so if you need detailed explanations of how it all works read the first part.

Start a new C Windows Forms project. A WPF-based project would be more or less the same, apart from the way way the bitmap was processed for display. For simplicity we will use Windows Forms.

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If you have Microsoft Server Speech Platform Close Visual Studio. From the download location, double-click on KinectSDK-v1.

This single installer works for both bit and bit Windows. The drivers will load automatically.