Clemente Giorio - Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example

Clemente Giorio is an independent Consultant; he cooperated with Microsoft SrL for the development of a prototype that uses the Kinect sensor. He is interested in Human-computer Interface (HCI) and multimodal interaction.

I would first like to thank my family, for their continuous support throughout my time in University.

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who saw me through this book. During the evolution of this book, I have accumulated many debts, only few of which I have space to acknowledge here.

Writing of this book has been a joint enterprise and a collaborative exercise. Apart from the names mentioned, there are many others who contributed. I appreciate their help and thank them for their support.

Massimo Fascinari is a Solution Architect at Avanade, where he designs and delivers software development solutions to companies throughout the UK and Ireland. His interest in Kinect and human-machine interaction started during his research on increasing the usability and adoption of collaboration solutions.

I would like to thank my wife Edyta, who has been supporting me while I was working on the book.

With more than 17 years of experience working on Microsoft technologies, Atul Gupta is currently a Principal Technology Architect at Infosys' Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys Labs. His expertise spans user experience and user interface technologies, and he is currently working on touch and gestural interfaces with technologies such as Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Kinect. He has prior experience in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Windows 7, Deepzoom, Pivot, PixelSense, and Windows Phone 7.

He has co-authored the book ASP.NET 4 Social Networking (http://www.packtpub.com/asp-net-4-social-networking/book). Earlier in his career, he also worked on technologies such as COM, DCOM, C, VC++, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, and ASP.NET MVC. He is a regular reviewer for Packt Publishing and has reviewed books on topics such as Silverlight, Generics, and Kinect.

He has authored papers for industry publications and websites, some of which are available on Infosys' Technology Showcase (http://www.infosys.com/microsoft/resource-center/pages/technology-showcase.aspx). Along with colleagues from Infosys, Atul blogs at http://www.infosysblogs.com/microsoft. Being actively involved in professional Microsoft online communities and developer forums, Atul has received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award for multiple years in a row.

Mandresh Shah is a developer and architect working in the Avanade group for Accenture Services. He has IT industry experience of over 14 years and has been predominantly working on Microsoft technologies. He has experience on all aspects of the software development lifecycle and is skilled in design, implementation, technical consulting, and application lifecycle management. He has designed and developed software for some of the leading private and public sector companies and has built industry experience in retail, insurance, and public services. With his technical expertise and managerial abilities, he also has played the role of growing capability and driving innovation within the organization.

Mandresh lives in Mumbai with his wife Minal, and two sons Veeransh and Veeshan. In his spare time he enjoys reading, movies, and playing with his kids.

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Preface

To build interesting, interactive, and user friendly software applications, developers are turning to Kinect for Windows to leverage multimodal and Natural User Interface (NUI) capabilities in their programs.

Kinect in Motion Audio and Visual Tracking by Example is a compact reference on how to master color, depth, skeleton, and audio data streams handled by Kinect for Windows. You will learn how to use Kinect for Windows for capturing and managing color images tracking user motions, gestures, and their voice. This book, thanks to its focus on examples and to its simple approach, will guide you on how to easily step away from a mouse or keyboard driven application.

This will enable you to break through the modern application development space. The book will step you through many detailed, real-world examples, and even guide you on how to test your application.