Is it possible to use the Kinect in Near Mode with the library included in the Image Acquisition toolbox?

The native support for Kinect offered by the Image Acquisition TB is great, but I would like to use it in near mode. Is there any way of doing this?

If so, how?

Answer 1

[Anchit Dhar]

It is possible to use the Kinect in Near mode with IMAQ toolbox. The Near mode can be set using the DepthMode property, which resides on the Source object. The following code snippet demonstrates this:

    % Create the object for the depth sensor
    vid = videoinput('kinect',2);
    src = vid.Source;
    src.DepthMode='Near';

[Alexandre Bizeau]

It's an auto calibration ? If we set Near on DepthMode with : http://www.nyko.com/products/product-detail/?name=Zoom,

Can we achieve nearest view like under 30 cm ?

Thanks

Alex

[Anchit Dhar]

The Kinect adaptor supports only Kinect for Windows devices. We do not support the Nyko Zoom device yet.

-Anchit

[Alexandre Bizeau]

The Nyko zoom isn't a device, it more a lens you just add on your device to get distortions of the scene to get nearest and larger view space. I'll have a try on it and see if my result are better.

Thanks