Kinect Azure DK notes

Kinect Azure Sensor notes

Main features

• IR camera

• Depth image from IR (near or wide FOV options)

• RGB camera up to 2160 res (1080p for 30fps)

• Very good alignment of depth & RGB image for cloud

• 7 microphones for directional audio

• Accelerometer & gyroscope

• Sync signal for multiple cameras without interference

• Sensor SDK, Body tracking SDK, for windows & linux

• Download drivers etc. from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kinect-dk/sensor-sdk-download

• Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kinect-dk/

• Sensor SDK https://github.com/Microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK

• Body SDK https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100942

Quick debug: use the Kinect Azure Viewer app in the SDK to look at the IR, depth, RGB streams etc. With that, I found that the best textured pointcloud was from the NFOV binned depth mode, the 1080p video mode (30fps), and with automatic exposure & white balance disabled.

Sensor SDK

No need to build on windows, the SDK is installed in C:/Program Files/Azure Kinect SDK v1.4.0/sdk

Minimal test:

uint32_t count = k4a_device_get_installed_count();