Requirements for Kinect programming

Question

I wish to program with the Kinect ToF camera, however I am not certain of the hardware and software requirements to do so. I have come across a number of articles/books that cov

Answer 1

According to my experiments on ARM based Linux environment, 720 MHz+ single core CPU is enough for just continuous polling the data and read its properties. At least 1.5 GHz CPU is needed for grabbing the depth data into RAM and process it basically. I am using dual core OMAP-4 Core(1.2 GHz each). Actually, this process power is enough for me to grab depth + image data, downsample/compress them (with loss) and send them via TCP/UDP.

There is various libraries for Kinect. MS SDK and OpenNI are the most common ones. If you will use Linux environment, I would suggest OpenNI.

I've prepared a guide for this installation. You can check at http://denizbeker.blogspot.com/2013/08/pandaboard-es-openni-kinect-ubuntu.html