openni_tracker displaying pointcloud and skeleton alignment?

asked 2013-02-20 13:50:46 -0500

jys

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updated 2016-10-24 09:01:28 -0500

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I have openni_tracker working. However, I am not sure how I can visualize both point cloud from Kinect as well as the skeleton TF data.

I can visualize Kinect point cloud by setting fixed frame to /camera_link

And I can visualize TF skeleton data by setting fixed frame to /openni_depth_frame.

When I visualize TF data, there is no connection between point cloud related TF and skelecton related TF data. Am I doing something wrong?

How could I align these together?

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answered 2013-02-21 11:17:03 -0500

jarvisschultz

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updated 2013-03-05 08:27:51 -0500

The easiest solution would be to launch the openni_launch with the camera argument set. See the documentation at the bottom of this page. So the following command

roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch camera:=openni

will set the first word of all of the frames associated with your Kinect to be "openni" instead of "camera". This should merge your tf tree.

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@jarvisschultz would you recommend openni_tracker for people detection?? Or do you know ay good stack that would acommplish people detection? Thanks

ctguell ( 2013-09-12 09:59:43 -0500 )edit

@ctguell if all you wanted to do was detect people, you could use openni_tracker, but it might be a bit overkill. If you still wanted to use a depth camera, maybe you could adapt openni_tracker a bit e.g. see the `User_NewUser` callback in the openni_tracker source.

jarvisschultz ( 2013-09-12 17:00:53 -0500 )edit

As of 1.7, PCL now has pretty good people detection built in, if that's really what you want (as opposed to human pose estimation). Have a look at this tutorial: http://www.pointclouds.org/documentat...

Neil Traft ( 2014-08-13 16:48:06 -0500 )edit

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