Azure Kinect DK human body identification principle clarify

Question

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!

Answer 1

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:

• Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK Q&A
• Azure Kinect Body Tracking Samples
• Azure Kinect body tracking joints
• Azure Kinect body tracking index map

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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Answer 2

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