openni_tracker or openni2_tracker for ROS indigo

Hi all,

I am currently using ASUS Xtion on 64 bit ubuntu 14.04 and ROS indigo, and trying to implement skeleton tracking using openni and opennitracker. The version of my Xtion is old one, so mine works for both opennilaunch and openni2launch. I have OpenNI 1.5.4.0, OpenNI 2.2.0, NITE 1.5.2.23, and NITE 2.2. I've been using them to get either opennitracker or openni2_tracker working, but I wasn't able to. I literally tried lots of combinations that I can come up for this but I don't get it why.

Since there is not much information on openni, is there anyone who has succeeded in implementing either opennitracker or openni2tracker on ROS indigo? I guess kinect or Xtion doesn't matter for this problem. Any advice or experience would be really appreciable. Thanks in advance!

--edit If you see link text, it mentions the possibility of removing NITE library from opennitracker. Do you guys think opennitracker(or openni2_tracker) without NITE library can be achievable?

Asked by yoo00 on 2014-10-14 09:51:58 UTC

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so, which one is the installer for Nite2? i have problem for library and path Nite2 in ros package.

Asked by adelleodel on 2015-10-29 08:14:52 UTC

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have you had any success with this? I am trying to make the openni_tracker work on ROS indigo with Kinect. I installed the package from the source and it compiled. When I run it, the Kinect detects the user and the Psi pose, but it doesn't publish anything on the /tf topic, actually there is no /tf topic.

Asked by lazy on 2015-02-05 11:06:29 UTC

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i also want to use openni_tracker with ros indigo... i tried downloading openni_tracker-hydro package from github and put in my workspace.... i also installed NITE package... but it is not working... while running: rosrun openni_tracker openni_tracker, it says it can't create any node of req. type

Asked by Arpitsoni on 2017-01-06 01:29:29 UTC

Hi, I have just tested this packages. Actually just download the openni_tracker package from the git and catkin_make it in my workspace.

Also install Nite v 1.5.2.23 with the instruction of the Git page.

And

roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch

rosrun openni_tracker openni_tracker

Luckily it succeeds!

Asked by Gloria@HK on 2015-09-30 07:09:16 UTC