Driver for recording and viewing Kinect v2 streams.
Features
- kinect_recorder -> Recording to disk from Kinect v2 with multiple Kinects
- kinect_viewer -> Viewing binary files written by program with multiple Kinects
- See chapter Running Kinect below for usage
- OpenKinect: libfreenect2
sudo apt install git build-essentialsudo apt-get install libgtk-3-devgit clone https://github.com/morrisfranken/argparse.git ~/argparse
# Install a whole bunch of prerequisites
sudo apt install build-essential cmake git pkg-config libgtk-3-dev \
libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev \
libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev \
gfortran openexr libatlas-base-dev python3-dev python3-numpy \
libtbb2 libtbb-dev libdc1394-22-dev libopenexr-dev \
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev# Install minimal prerequisites (Ubuntu 18.04 as reference)
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y cmake g++ wget unzip# Download sources
wget -O opencv.zip https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/master.zip# Unpack sources
unzip opencv.zip# Create build directory
mkdir -p ~/opencv/build && cd ~/opencv/build# Configure
cmake ../../opencv-master# Build
cmake --build .Follow instructions on OpenKinect GitHub https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2
Follow instructions from morrisfranken: https://github.com/morrisfranken/argparse
- Essentially, place this respository into your home directory.
mkdir ~/catkin_wscd ~/catkin_wsmkdir srcgit clone https://github.com/uqmvale6/kinect_streamer.git src/kinect_streamercatkin_makecd ~/catkin_wssource ./devel/setup.sh- WARNING: Recommended disk space - ~20 MB per frame (approx 28 FPS)
- Example Space: 1 hour -> 2 TB (for two Kinects running at 30 FPS)
# Usage
roslaunch kinect_streamer_bin kinect_recorder.launch# Usage
roslaunch kinect_streamer_bin kinect_viewer.launch# Usage
roslaunch kinect_streamer_bin kinect_camera.launch