Kinect Calibration Utility
About the Software:
Until recently, range imaging has been prohibitively expensive to implement due to equipment and computational requirements. Today, 3D data capture is almost a commodity with the release of Microsoft.s Kinect sensor: an inexpensive consumer device with an array of sensors, including a rigidly paired color camera and structured light range scanner. The range data and color image pair has previously relied on human input to determine homographic points during calibration, introducing potentially erroneous input. This software introduces a fully automated calibration procedure that requires no user input for homography, eliminating human error. Using this method, results yield a mean reprojection error of 0.867 pixels with a variance of 0.104, demonstrating superior accuracy over the device's built-in registration. The software requires OpenNI, OpenCV and .NET Framework 4.0 to be installed on the host PC.