ReKinStruct: Time-Varying Kinect Fusion

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I have tried to combine Kinect Fusion and the Time-Varying Dataset concept into one by obtaining two time varying PLYs of a scenario and converting them into PCDs. The link to this small dataset could be found at

https://uwmadison.box.com/s/bgw63fi54y5ir5wkedav

Meanwhile, since I did not have OpenNI support in my machine as I have deleted it while installating Kinect SDKs, I could not try running the program to visualise it. Nevertheless, the comparison of the two PLYs looks so in MeshLab.

KinectFusion_Comaprison

The scans look intact and the Kinect’s depth sensors were actually working much better compared to last week since I moved the Kinect slowly across the space.

The codes to the capture and viewing program that I have worked with until now can be found at

https://github.com/nsubramaniam/rekinstruct

For some reason, using the Multi Static Kinects option in the Kinect SDKs which obtains points from two Kinects gives an error while opening the PLY file it saves. The error corresponds to something like “Header has an EoF” which I believe is erroneous metadata. I am looking into it. Will update once I get to know something.!

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About Naveen Anand

I am currently a Masters student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. My concentrations are Computer Architecture and Operating Systems. I work with Dr.Kevin Ponto (https://blogs.discovery.wisc.edu/kponto/) in the Living Environments Lab, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery as a Project Assistant for the vizHOME project. Image processing and Virtual Reality have always been one of my major co-curricular interests since undergrad. This blog is going to be a chronological compilation of my independent study and future work with Dr.Ponto.