Real-Time Detection and Tracking with Kinect
Saket Warade
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Abstract
In this paper, we have proposed a system to keep track of human body movements in real time mode. The Kinect sensors are used to capture Depth and Audio streams. The system is designed by integration of two modules namely Kinect Module and Augmented Reality module. The kinect module performs Voice Recognition and captures depth images that are used by Augmented Reality module for computing the distance parameters. Augmented Reality module also captures real-time image data streams from high resolution camera. The system generates 3D module that is superimposed on real time data.
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