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Kinect for Windows

The new Kinect for Windows is available and will be available in Hong Kong in late May according to the blog description. The commercial SDK is also out now for download.

TouchDesigner has a set of new operators for the Kinect for Windows. They are quite easy to integrate with the existing TouchDesigner working environment.

University of Central Florida Interactive Systems and User Experience Lab has also released a Unity3D plugin with the new Kinect SDK.
 

 
There are also a number of openFrameworks addons for the Kinect for Windows, ofxMSKinect and ofxKinectNui.

For library Cinder, here is the Kinect SDK Block.

For Flash ActionScript users, the AIRKinect can be a good choice.

At the time of writing, I am still waiting for the Java binding and thus the Processing community.

 

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DirectShow for Processing – OpenGL

I try to work out another version of the DirectShow for Processing classes in the last post. In this version, I write the movie data directly to an OpenGL texture object. Below is the modified version of the DMovie class. The DCapture class can also be modified in the same way.
 
The modified DMovie class

import de.humatic.dsj.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import com.sun.opengl.util.texture.*;
 
class DMovie implements java.beans.PropertyChangeListener {
 
  private DSMovie movie;
  public int width, height;
  public Texture tex;
 
  DMovie(String _s) {
    movie = new DSMovie(dataPath(_s), DSFiltergraph.DD7, this);
    movie.setVolume(1.0);
    movie.setLoop(false);
    movie.play();
    width = movie.getDisplaySize().width;
    height = movie.getDisplaySize().height;
    tex = TextureIO.newTexture(movie.getImage(), false);
  }
 
  public void updateImage() {
    BufferedImage bimg = movie.getImage();
    TextureData td = TextureIO.newTextureData(bimg, false);
    tex.updateImage(td);
  }
 
  public void loop() {
    movie.setLoop(true);
    movie.play();
  }
 
  public void play() {
    movie.play();
  }
 
  public void propertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent e) {
    switch (DSJUtils.getEventType(e)) {
    }
  }
}

 
Sample code that uses the new DMovie class

import processing.opengl.*;
import javax.media.opengl.*;
 
DMovie mov;
PGraphicsOpenGL pgl;
 
void setup()
{
  size(1280, 692, OPENGL);
  pgl = (PGraphicsOpenGL) g;
  GL gl = pgl.beginGL();
  background(0);
  mov = new DMovie("Hugo.mp4");
  mov.loop();
  mov.tex.bind();
  pgl.endGL();
  ;
}
 
void draw()
{
  GL gl = pgl.beginGL();
  mov.updateImage();
  mov.tex.enable();
  gl.glBegin(GL.GL_QUADS);
  gl.glTexCoord2f(0, 0); 
  gl.glVertex2f(0, 0);
  gl.glTexCoord2f(1, 0); 
  gl.glVertex2f(width, 0);
  gl.glTexCoord2f(1, 1); 
  gl.glVertex2f(width, height);
  gl.glTexCoord2f(0, 1); 
  gl.glVertex2f(0, height);
  gl.glEnd();  
 
  mov.tex.disable();
  pgl.endGL();
}
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DirectShow for Processing

I adopt the DirectShow Java Wrapper to work in Processing with two classes, one for movie playback and one for video capture. At this moment, there are just two Java classes, not an individual library yet. Since it is for DirectShow, it is of course in Windows platform. You have to package the dsj.jar and the dsj.dll (32bit or 64bit according to your platform) into your code folder.
 
The DMovie class for movie playback

import de.humatic.dsj.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
 
class DMovie implements java.beans.PropertyChangeListener {
 
  private DSMovie movie;
  public int width, height;
 
  DMovie(String _s) {
    movie = new DSMovie(dataPath(_s), DSFiltergraph.DD7, this);
    movie.setVolume(1.0);
    movie.setLoop(false);
    movie.play();
    width = movie.getDisplaySize().width;
    height = movie.getDisplaySize().height;
  }
 
  public PImage updateImage() {
    PImage img = createImage(width, height, RGB);
    BufferedImage bimg = movie.getImage();
    bimg.getRGB(0, 0, img.width, img.height, img.pixels, 0, img.width);
    img.updatePixels();
    return img;
  }
 
  public void loop() {
    movie.setLoop(true);
    movie.play();
  }
 
  public void play() {
    movie.play();
  }
 
  public void propertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent e) {
    switch (DSJUtils.getEventType(e)) {
    }
  }
}

 
Sample code that uses the DMovie class

DMovie mov;
 
void setup()
{
  size(1280, 692);
  background(0);
  mov = new DMovie("Hugo.mp4");
  mov.loop();
  frameRate(25);
}
 
void draw()
{
  image(mov.updateImage(), 0, 0);
}

 
The DCapture class that performs video capture with the available webcam

import de.humatic.dsj.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
 
class DCapture implements java.beans.PropertyChangeListener {
 
  private DSCapture capture;
  public int width, height;
 
  DCapture() {
    DSFilterInfo[][] dsi = DSCapture.queryDevices();
    capture = new DSCapture(DSFiltergraph.DD7, dsi[0][0], false, 
    DSFilterInfo.doNotRender(), this);
    width = capture.getDisplaySize().width;
    height = capture.getDisplaySize().height;
  }
 
  public PImage updateImage() {
    PImage img = createImage(width, height, RGB);
    BufferedImage bimg = capture.getImage();
    bimg.getRGB(0, 0, img.width, img.height, img.pixels, 0, img.width);
    img.updatePixels();
    return img;
  }
 
  public void propertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent e) {
    switch (DSJUtils.getEventType(e)) {
    }
  }
}

Sample code that uses the DCapture class

DCapture cap;
 
void setup() 
{
  size(640, 480);
  background(0);
  cap = new DCapture();
}
 
void draw()
{
  image(cap.updateImage(), 0, 0, cap.width, cap.height);
}