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memyself
memyself

Reputation: 12638

minimum working distance to track moving object with kinect

I'm wondering what the minimum working distance for the Kinect is.

I'd like to track a moving object (10cm x 10cm) from a distance of 1m. The area that the object will be moving in, is 120cm x 60cm.

Given Kinect's specs, will it be possible to track the object across the entire area?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 986

Answers (2)

canderso
canderso

Reputation: 662

Distance range handled by the sensor is 850mm minimum and 4000mm maximum, so this should be possible.

I strongly recommend watching the Kinect SDK Quickstarts videos as it covers all basics to get you started. In fact the "Working with depth data" probably contains exactly the kind of info you're looking for.

Upvotes: 1

Roman
Roman

Reputation: 6458

wikipedia says:

The sensor has an angular field of view of 57° horizontally and 43° vertically

so the answer to your question would be: no, 120cm would be too wide. Since the maximum horizontal viewing field at 1m would be tan(57deg/2)*2 = ~1.08m

though at a distance of ~1.2m it should work (tan(57deg/2)*2*1.2 = ~1.3m)

Upvotes: 3

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