Running the Kinect package

Step 1. Run ./bin/KinectUtil list to list all Kinect devices connected to the host computer.

Step 2a. Run sudo ./bin/KinectUtil getCalib to download factory calibration data from the -th Kinect device on the host's USB bus (with the first device having index 0) and create a intrinsic camera calibration file for that device in the Kinect package's configuration file directory.

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Step 2b. Run ./bin/RawKinectViewer to intrinsically calibrate the -th Kinect device on the host's USB bus (with the first device having index 0), using a semi-transparent checkerboard calibration target (see next section for details). This generates a binary IntrinsicParameters-.dat file in /etc/Kinect-, where is the unique factory-assigned serial number of the Kinect device as displayed in step 1.

Step 2 (a or b) only have to be performed once for each Kinect device, unless the resulting calibration proves unsatisfactory. Kinect devices typically retain their intrinsic calibration over time.

Step 3 Run ./bin/KinectViewer -c , where is the zero-based index of the Kinect device to use if there are multiple ones.