I tried the latest libfreenect from ppa in ubuntu 12.04, it works well with kinect xbox but cannot detect kinect 4 windows at all. I searched but found no reliable solutions, and some people say k4w is a completely new model, with different protocols. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Kevin Walchko wrote: > Have you tried to use kinect4windows with libfreenect yet or is that > completely different from the original kinect? > > > On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:04 PM, K Chen wrote: > > Thanks for your work and I also encounter the crash problem when I updated > to Fuerte under ubuntu 12.04. > > But I am curious whether anyone has the plan to make Kinect4Windows work > on ROS? The newly published sensor provides much better color image and > have access to camera parameters, which help a lot in object > recognition(without additional camera). > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Piyush wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> The openni driver for the kinect has had some stability issues over >> the last 6 months. This is now documented through a few threads on >> answers.ros.org and a few bug tickets. I believe some people can still >> run the driver successfully, whereas some cannot (including myself). >> All my machines are setup similarly, and at this time I cannot get the >> OpenNI to work on any of them. >> >> I have spent a bit of time in the last couple of days throwing >> together a libfreenect based substitute. The main goal while writing >> this driver was to get the driver to have the same API as the openni >> one, allowing transitioning between the 2 drivers with minimum >> modifications. For this reason, I've used the current openni driver as >> a base rather than the now deprecated kinect_camera stack. The driver >> can be found here: >> https://github.com/piyushk/freenect-ros-pkg >> >> https://raw.github.com/piyushk/freenect-ros-pkg/master/rosinstall/freenect.rosinstall >> >> The driver works but is quite rough (needs code cleanup and thread >> safety), and a registration issue needs to be solved: >> https://github.com/piyushk/freenect-ros-pkg/issues/ >> >> Is anybody interested in helping me test/maintain/develop this driver >> (I can only test it on 12.04/Fuerte)? I could use a bit of information >> from someone with a working openni driver to solve the registration >> issue above. >> >> If you want to test the driver above, you need to take the following >> steps: >> 1) The rosdeps are currently being pushed, so hand install these >> packages if rosdep udpate does not catch them (libxmu-dev libxi-dev) >> 2) Blacklist gspac-kinect module if you have not done so already >> - Temporarily: sudo modprobe -r gspca_kinect >> - Permanently: sudo echo "blacklist gspca_kinect" >> >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf >> >> Thanks! >> Piyush >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > > -- > Regards > > University of Science and Technology of China > School of Computer Science and Technology > Multi-Agent System Lab > > K.Chen > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Regards University of Science and Technology of China School of Computer Science and Technology Multi-Agent System Lab K.Chen