Here is a rough outline of what you should do

 

Research

• read up on Kinect or whatever sensor you will use
• do literature review (search IEEE and ACM) of issue of person falling detection or person laying on floor detection (what are the best search terms?) and also look at some medical/health journals and the internet

Proposal

 

Implementation, Testing and Documentation

• implement and test and document at the same time.

 

 

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Kinect Up and Running

1. you need to have the separate power cable connected to device and the USB adapter connected from Kinect to your computer
2. Depending on if you want to program in C#/C++ versus Java you will download the appropriate stack (driver, SDK, (possibly optional) middleware, compiler and programming ide).

   IF you choose OpenNI

   • Guide for Installing OpenNI with NITE for Windows (you need to install Java or C++ and your compiler yourself) -- follow up by looking at current openni.org install instructions

• another example (here install drivers first)
• one button install?? (not sure how up to date it will be-- will it have all latest software--do you get to choose stabe or unstabe versions of OpenNI and Nite or??)
• Guide for Installing OpenNI with NITE for MacOS (you need to install Java or C++ and you
  

IF you choose Microsoft SDK

• Go to Microsoft Kinect page and follow instructions to get drivers + Microsoft SDK
  
  
  
  

3. Try it out:

1. Go to your OpenNI\Samples\Bin\Release and try some of the Demo programs there including:
• NiSimpleRead.exe (produces stream of text showing depht measurement for center of Kinect depth image...put something in fron to see depth change)
• NiSimpleViewer.exe - displaysa pseudo-colored depth map/image
• NiViewer.exe - displays different "map/image" combinations --type ? to get help list of commands.
• NiUserTracker.exe - shows pose detection and skeleton capabilities.... works best when can see most of a user. ALSO - the skeleton (thin lines drawn inside body) appear only after person has stood still with both arms raised??? (see comments about skeleton tracking and how to do autocalibarate)
2. Go to your Primesense\NITE\Samples\Bin folder and try some of the Demos:
• Sample-Boxes.exe detects gestures (wave, push,swipe and steady) to select boxes drawn on screen.
3. RGBDemo: A great program to install on your computer after doing 1 and 2 is the RGBDemo -- it is an opensource toolkit that has an application you can use to play with your Kinect sesnor --- its a good way to get to know what your sensor does without writing code. Check out current location of RGBDemo download. Follow directions at that website to install and play --has RGB viewer and much more demo programs. By default expects OPenNI for #2 but, can change run-time parameter so will use the libfreenect driver instead (see same website for details).