PyKombine

Projekt for the combination of skeletal data of multiple, over the network distributed, Kinect v2 devices

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PyKombine

This project attempts to combine the skeletal data of several Kinect devices. These devices can be distributed over the network. Each client that has a kinect connection (Klient) processes the data in a minimal way and sends it to OSC bundles via zmq to the server (Kombine / Kombiner). The Kombiner than merges all connected Kinect device data into on single skeleton and publishes it in OSC-Bundles via zmq.

Known Bugs, Issues

• Only one Person can be tracked.
• A Persson should only show its front to the sensors
• A Klient-PC must run Windows.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Install python3.5+ (32-Bit)

Python3.5 (32-Bit) or higher must be installed. Please see the official Python documentation for install instructions (Download Pyhton official)

Windows user can also use Anaconda (Anaconda Home).

Installing Virtualenv (optional)

Installing Virtualenv (Documentation). has following advantages:

• Dependency isolation
• no root required for pip packages

Install instructions can be seen below

Installing

pyhton3 references here to the install python3 version (3.5 or 3.6 atm.) if your system uses a different python3 version by default replace the python3 command with python3.5 or python3.6 (depending on what you installed)

The python command differs on Windows, it can be python3, py3 or py

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(optional) Install and activate Virutalenv

python3 -m pip install virtualenv

python3 -m virtualenv -p python3.5 env

Linux / Max-OS

. ./env/bin/activate

Windows

.\env\Scripts\activate.bat

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Install all requirements to run this project.

python3 -m pip install -r misc/requiremnts

Usage

Server (Kombine)

Windows: Run server.bat or python3 src\server.py Max-Os / Linux: Run server or python3 src/server.py

Client (Klient)

Windows: Run klient.bat or python3 src\klient.py. append _dummy.bat for testing purpose. Max-Os / Linux: Run klient or python3 src/klient.py. append _dummy for testing purpose.

Display Kombine output

TODO

Built With

• Python3.5+
• Pykinect2 - Python3 wrapper for the Kienct2 SDK

Authors

• Max Schulte

Acknowledgments

TODO

• Hat tip to anyone who's code was used
• Inspiration
• etc