Sorry my mistake, the k4w with kinect are practically the same in protocol level, more information: http://answers.ros.org/question/12876/kinect-for-windows/?answer= On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:24 AM, K Chen wrote: > 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 > > -- Regards University of Science and Technology of China School of Computer Science and Technology Multi-Agent System Lab K.Chen