Azure Kinect DK human body identification principle clarify

Alessandro Minerba 26 Reputation points
2021-12-30T12:33:09.753+00:00

Goodmorning,
I am from Italy and I am writing an university thesis which involves the using of 2 Kinect DK devices for human body detection and body tracking for rehablitation purposes. I am trying to know if there is any documentation or scientific article/paper about the algorithm used by Kinect SDK software to detect and track the human body using its point cloud, so I can explain how it works.
Thank you for your answers!

Azure Kinect DK
Azure Kinect DK
A Microsoft developer kit and peripheral device with advanced artificial intelligence sensors for sophisticated computer vision and speech models.
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  1. António Sérgio Azevedo 7,671 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2021-12-31T18:19:01.287+00:00

    Hello @Alessandro Minerba ,
    Happy to know that Kinect DK is being used on your research thesis :)!

    Note that the Azure Kinect DK is opened sourced here: https://github.com/Microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK . There you will be able to explore the code and the intrinsic of the algorithm used to track the human body.

    Here are some resources to help you. I will also update this thread if there is any article/paper about the algorithm used by Kinect SDK:

    UPDATE

    This is the original Kinect paper: Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images

    **Abstract: ** We propose a new method to quickly and accurately pre dict 3D positions of body joints from a single depth image, using no temporal information...

    Regards!

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  1. ordinacesvr 1 Reputation point
    2022-10-05T08:48:41.59+00:00

    Body Tracking algorithm principles great explanation in second half of this presentation: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/01/AKBTSDK.pdf

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