Introducing KinectTools v2.0 for Kinect for Windows v2.0

KinectTools

Tools for simplifying Kinect for Windows v2.0 programming in WPF

KinectTools offers three classes for simplifying the Kinect for Windows v2 SDK.

https://github.com/carlfranklin/KinectToolsV2

BodyViewer

Exposes a WPF ImageSource property you can bind to an Image control for displaying a 3D Body stick figure. You have control over all of the brushes and pens used to draw the stick figure.

BodyViewer exposes an event that occurs when a frame is available, and passes you a Body object. You can inspect the X, Y, an Z values of each Joint.

You can optionally turn off drawing and just handle the data.

BodyViewer also gives you the ability to draw an image from a PNG file over the head of the body.

ColorViewer

Exposes a WPF ImageSource property you can bind to an Image control for displaying full color video.

ColorAndBodyViewer

Exposes two ImageSource properties that you can display in XAML Image controls. Has all of the features of both ColorViewer and BodyViewer except the Body and Color images line up and can be shown in a grid like so:

    <Grid x:Name="MainGrid">
        <!-- Color Video -->
        <Border Background="Black" >
            <Image x:Name="VideoImage" Margin="5" Source="{Binding VideoImageSource}" Stretch="Uniform" />
        </Border>
        <!-- Superimposed Body Video -->
        <Border Background="Transparent"  >
            <Image x:Name="BodyImage" Margin="5" Source="{Binding BodyImageSource}" Stretch="Uniform" />
        </Border>
    </Grid>

Note:

The ColorViewer may in fact give you a lower frame rate as the ColorAndBodyViewer. That is because the ColorAndBodyViewer does not grab frames the same way as the ColorViewer.

The ColorAndBodyViewer tracks the Body, and hooks the FrameArrived event on the BodyFrameReader, then captures the latest color frame from a ColorFrameReader. The result is 30FPS, even if there are duplicate video frames.