[ros-users] libfreenect based Kinect driver

[K Chen]

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 <kevin.walchko at gmail.com>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 <chk0105 at gmail.com> 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 <piyushk at gmail.com> 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
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>
> K.Chen
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