TY - JOUR
T1 - KinZ an Azure Kinect toolkit for Python and Matlab
AU - Terven, Juan R.
AU - Córdova-Esparza, Diana M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s)
PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Azure Kinect
KW - Matlab
KW - Python
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111216832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scico.2021.102702
DO - 10.1016/j.scico.2021.102702
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85111216832
SN - 0167-6423
VL - 211
JO - Science of Computer Programming
JF - Science of Computer Programming
M1 - 102702
ER -