Title :
Performance evaluation of the 1st and 2nd generation Kinect for multimedia applications
Author :
Zennaro, S. ; Munaro, M. ; Milani, S. ; Zanuttigh, P. ; Bernardi, A. ; Ghidoni, S. ; Menegatti, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Padova, Padua, Italy
fDate :
June 29 2015-July 3 2015
Abstract :
Microsoft Kinect had a key role in the development of consumer depth sensors being the device that brought depth acquisition to the mass market. Despite the success of this sensor, with the introduction of the second generation, Microsoft has completely changed the technology behind the sensor from structured light to Time-Of-Flight. This paper presents a comparison of the data provided by the first and second generation Kinect in order to explain the achievements that have been obtained with the switch of technology. After an accurate analysis of the accuracy of the two sensors under different conditions, two sample applications, i.e., 3D reconstruction and people tracking, are presented and used to compare the performance of the two sensors.
Keywords :
computer graphics; image reconstruction; image sensors; object tracking; 3D reconstruction; Microsoft Kinect; first generation Kinect; multimedia applications; people tracking; second generation Kinect; sensors; Accuracy; Cameras; Image color analysis; Performance evaluation; Sensors; Standards; Three-dimensional displays; 3D reconstruction; Kinect; depth estimation; people tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Turin
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2015.7177380
