README.md

KinectTouch

Turns any surface into a giant touchpad using kinect

Prerequisites

• OpenNI 1.x, NITE and SensorKinect
  • Bundled download as part of SimpleOpenNI available
  • Ubuntu installation

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/simple-openni/OpenNI_NITE_Installer-Linux64-0.27.zip
unzip OpenNI_NITE_Installer-Linux64-0.27.zip
cd OpenNI_NITE_Installer-Linux64-0.27/OpenNI-Bin-Dev-Linux-x64-v1.5.4.0/
sudo ./install.sh
cd ../NITE-Bin-Dev-Linux-x64-v1.5.2.21/
sudo ./install.sh
cd ../kinect/Sensor-Bin-Linux-x64-v5.1.2.1/
sudo ./install.sh

• OpenCV
  • Ubuntu installation

sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev

• CMake
  • Ubuntu installation

sudo apt-get install cmake

Building and Running

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

./KinectTouch

TODOs

• Integrate TUIO as a submodule
• Integrate OpenNI and SensorKinect submodules or switch to libfreenect
• Add Kinect 2 support
• Tracking / filtering of touch points