CAPTURING, ENCODING AND RENDERING GESTURES USING THE

KINECTby

Adan Patience

Supervisor: Mr Mehrdad Ghazi-Asgar

OVERVIEW

• Introduction

• Requirements Analysis

• High Level Design

• Expectations

• Related Work

• Project Plan

INTRODUCTION

SA average internet connection speed is  2.32 Mbps

Video calling requires 400 kbps

Solution, asynchronous communication by capturing gestures using the Kinect

USER REQUIREMENTS

CaptureGestures

Encode Send to Server

Render Gestures

High Level Design

USER REQUIREMENTS

Expectations

• Expected to be robust to complex backgrounds

• Expected to capture the motion, shape and the orientation of user’s hands and render using an avatar

• Not expected to recognise any gestures

USER REQUIREMENTS

Related Work

• Christoph Bregler and Jitendra Malik, Tracking People with Twists and Exponential Maps

• Abhishek Kar, Skeletal Tracking using Microsoft Kinect,

PROJECT PLAN

Term 1 Proposal, User Requirements and Requirements Analysis

Term 2 Prototype

Term 3 Implementation

Term 4 Testing

QUESTIONS ?