Easy-to-use high-level functions to access Azure Kinect functionality.
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Additional 32 hand keypoints to the existing 32 body keytpoints for tracking.
Abstract
This paper introduces KinZ, an Azure Kinect toolkit for Python and Matlab. This toolkit encapsulates the Azure Kinect's main functionality in an easy-to-use class with high-level methods. This software is written mostly in C/C++ with a pybind interface for Python and Mex functions for Matlab. It provides access to color, depth, infrared cameras, a mapping between cameras, colored point clouds, IMU sensor data, body tracking with 32 body joints plus 32 hand keypoints. We showed that KinZ applications could run in real-time at 1080p resolution, with the benefit of a high-level language reducing the learning curve and allowing a significant decrease in development time for prototyping and research.
