http://nicolas.burrus.name/index.php...emoV4#tocLink8

"RGBDemo v0.4: experimental people detection and height estimation with Kinect"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCDO...layer_embedded

Mr.Burrus also released a Windows executable that installed and is running pretty good on the XP side of my laptop.

"Kinect OpenNI-NITE ofxOpenNI Skeleton with openFrameworks on Linux"

http://therandomlab.blogspot.com/201...with.html#more

"At last, after some setting up we got the Nite library accesible from openFrameworks on linux thanxs to the work of the independent community."

http://twitter.com/#!/MiFiManiac/sta...31513708081154

http://kinecthacks.net/drawing-with-kinect/


"The video shows a never before seen accuracy and simplicity in tracking 3D objects in space and shows some serious potential. Mehmet uses one hand to draw and both hands to rotate the view. This drawing app was created using libfreenect and ofxKinect libraries."

http://vr.tu-freiberg.de/scivi/

"The only things you need are our framework, the Kinect and some AR markers. ...After scanning the object you get a colored point cloud. ...Using a Poisson Surface Reconstruction algorithm you get a mesh which is then colored with our color mapping algorithm."

Interesting 3D point cloud reconstruction using a Kinect, Linux, and AR markers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HQEZCMNDIY

"Autonomous follower, Stanford ME218d

Uploaded by szabadsss on Dec 11, 2011

An autonomous following car built at Stanford University. Featuring an x-box kinect, an EEE PC running ROS (Robot Operating System), an Ardupilot mega, and a 1/5 scale RC car."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08tUD_oMvQE

"MERS/MIT - Real-time 3D tracking of a foam ball using visual and point cloud information

Uploaded by phrqas on Jan 15, 2012

This video shows how the 3D tracking system I worked on evolved from a purely point cloud-based method to a more efficient approach that uses real-time visual information in order to improve the tracking performance and greatly reduce the computational effort of extracting the ball's 3D coordinates. The whole systems runs on top of Willow Garage's ROS and uses a Kinect as the sensor.

My homepage: http://people.csail.mit.edu/psantana "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Cxpjl7sNA

"Uploaded by pirobotproductions on Jan 16, 2012

Pi Robot roaming about the house during his first navigation endurance test using ROS AMCL (Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization), a laser scanner, and a Kinect 3D camera. For more details see http://www.pirobot.org/blog/0025. Pi successfully reached 174 out of 175 goal locations until his battery died after 1 hr 55 minutes. During that time, he traveled over 600 meters and did not once touch another object, get stuck, or suffer a software or hardware failure. The one missed goal was due to being trapped in the hallway by people and cats."

The site: http://www.pirobot.org/blog/0025 has a very nice approach to getting started with a robot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKdIeMzclsU

"Uploaded by AirHacksUPenn on Feb 20, 2012

A short video demonstrating the wireless transmission of Kinect data from the HAWK system to a base station (laptop).

The HAWK system consists of an Intel Tunnel Creek board with a Airport 802.11n Wifi card running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. The source code for the wireless kinect data transmission is available on Github at https://github.com/mlab/HAWK-daemons "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmAWqjeYEac

"Roomba Telepresence on ROS

Uploaded by kleekru on Feb 13, 2012

This is a basic telepresence bot... I used a Roomba 550 as a base, an iCreate serial cable and a Dell laptop I had handy with a serial port. The laptop is running Ubuntu with ROS and the Roomba_Robot ROS stack.

The laptop also is running an Apache web server connected through an external DNS web service (free) running php pages that initiate shell scripts that run the rostopic commands. I'm sure there is a more straightforward way to do this... but it works.

With Skype running I was able to run around my house and visit with my wife and kids while traveling in Japan. My wife does not appreciate when I unexpectedly come around the corner to say hi. It is nice that the kids can see me and I can see them and I'm in complete control from a remote location.

Many thanks to Goncalo at the University of Coimbra in Portugal for taking some time to help me through the ROS challenges!

I also modified the Roomba dock using some unconventional suggestions from this link (Thanks Johnny!):http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/20...resence-rob*ot
... this allowed me to charge the laptop and the Roomba when in the dock so no one needed to "plug me back in".

When all was said and done, I paid for a used Roomba on ebay and a new iRobot connect cable and used a laptop and webcam I already had handy... probably well under $300 but a fair number of man hours figuring it out.

Next step might include a manipulator or possibly some experiments with the Kinect for machine vision or navigation. I'm looking forward to seeing what else I can do with ROS. We'll see..."

Very good work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87WCumXwA38

"Kinect: Converting 3D point clouds to 2D "fake" laser scans"

http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect_2d_scanner

"A ROS node to read range data from a Kinect sensor and convert it (in a flexible way) into 2D equivalent range scans. This allows low-cost implementation of classic SLAM and localization techniques originally designed to work with more expensive laser range finders.

Author: Jose Luis Blanco
License: GPL
Repository: mrpt-ros-pkg
Source: svn http://mrpt-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/s...ect_2d_scanner "

http://www.mrpt.org/Example_Kinect_To_2D_laser_scan