About Azure Kinect Sensor SDK

This article provides an overview of the Azure Kinect Sensor software development kit (SDK), its features, and tools.

Features

The Azure Kinect Sensor SDK provides cross-platform low-level access for Azure Kinect device configuration and hardware sensors streams, including:

• Depth camera access and mode control (a passive IR mode, plus wide and narrow field-of-view depth modes)
• RGB camera access and control (for example, exposure and white balance)
• Motion sensor (gyroscope and accelerometer) access
• Synchronized Depth-RGB camera streaming with configurable delay between cameras
• External device synchronization control with configurable delay offset between devices
• Camera frame meta-data access for image resolution, timestamp, etc.
• Device calibration data access

Tools

• An Azure Kinect viewer to monitor device data streams and configure different modes.
• An Azure Kinect recorder and playback reader API that uses the Matroska container format.
• An Azure Kinect DK firmware update tool.

Sensor SDK

• Download Sensor SDK.
• The Sensor SDK is available in open source on GitHub.
• For more information about usage, see Sensor SDK API documentation.

Next steps

Now you learned about Azure Kinect sensor SDK, you can also:

Download sensor SDK code

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