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I think that your best start would be to look into the openni_launch package this will help you to get the raw data from the kinect. The next thing I would recommend is to look into the Point Cloud Library. They are very heavily tied to ROS and provide a very robust library for handling RGB-D data.
Finally PCL offers many tutorials that discuss the topics you want to look into check out the following:
Hope this helps. BadRobot