Characterization of Different Microsoft Kinect Sensor Models

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4554-4564

  DiFilippo, Nicholas M ^a   Jouaneh, Musa K ^a  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D image reconstruction; depth; Kinect accuracy; Kinect for windows; Kinect for Xbox; Kinect sensor; OpenNI

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934325697     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2422611     Document Type: Article

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