tommyboy wrote:
I'm curious as the basic Kinect is proving difficult to get high enough quality results from, and in our own experience two Kinects worked worse than one.
I don't know much about the upcoming new Kinect for Windows, but I'm surprised to hear that you're seeing worse results using dual Kinect vs. single Kinect. FWIW, we've been getting far superior results when using the dual Kinect configuration. In fact, we recently added a third Kinect for Windows to our pipeline and are anticipating even better results because, in theory at least, this should nearly eliminate occlusion issues.
I do know from experience that the Kinect system is very sensitive to IR pollution from natural lighting. If we shot our motions during the day, the quality of capture could be very poor unless we covered the windows with light blocking curtains (look for 'black out' material at fabric stores like Jo-Ann.) Or alternatively we will schedule our capture sessions for after sunset. Once we figured this out, the quality of our capture data has been consistently very good.
Hope this helps.
G.
