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Asus or Kinect does not stream RGB and IR at the same time, it is sent out sequentially. Thus working with the IR and RGB frames which have very close time stamps is the way adopted to solve this issue.

You can get more info in the link below at section 4. Time Synchronizer

http://www.ros.org/wiki/message_filters

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