Research Material

A page for papers and textbooks that are helpful when working with different Kinect related projects.

Depth Image to 3D Pose

• A Bayesian Framework for Human Body Pose Tracking from Depth Image Sequences http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/10/5/5280/pdf
• 3D Head Tracking Based on Recognition and Interpolation Using a Time-Of-Flight Depth Sensor

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04410329

• 3-D human body tracking from depth images using analysis by synthesis http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=958455
• Interview with the creators http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2010/11/08/key-kinect-technology-devised-in-cambridge-lab/
• Microsoft Researcher publication papers http://jamie.shotton.org/work/publications.html
• Kinect for XBox 360 - The innovation Journey http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/fs2010/presentations/Kudo_Fitzgibbons_Kinect_for_Xbox360_071210_FacSummit.pdf and http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=139295 check it around 50 minutes
• Kinect visionary talks tech http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-kinect-tech-interview
• Random Forests http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/papers/schroff08.pdf
• Randomized Trees for Human Pose Detection http://eprints.pascal-network.org/archive/00006537/01/CVPR2008-RandomForest.pdf
• What are Textons? http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.76.8748%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&rct=j&q=Textons&ei=C-TqTK_KEoKB8gakzJyrCQ&usg=AFQjCNFg-lf0wk6DhSS_b6AP_3naQAT3Ag&sig2=zg3EOGxFBp7u8hHvYrvLUQ&cad=rja

Rough understanding and ways to create training data

Depth-Camera Data Processing

• Realtime Identification and Localization of Body Parts from Depth Images (ICRA 2010), http://stanford.edu/~plagem/bib/plagemann10icra.pdf
• Real Time Motion Capture Using a Single Time-of-Flight Camera (CVPR 2010), http://stanford.edu/~plagem/bib/ganapathi10cvpr.pdf

Hand Pose Recognition

• Hand Segmentation Using 2D/3D Images http://digital.liby.waikato.ac.nz/conferences/ivcnz07/papers/ivcnz07-paper12.pdf

• Real Time Hand Based Robot Control Using Multimodal Images http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/issues_v35/issue_4/IJCS_35_4_08.pdf

• A Gesture Recognition System Using 3D Data http://vision.iti.gr/sotiris/publications/3dpvt2002.pdf