After I saw MagWeb's simple hack, I had to try it: reconstructme.net/2012/03/18/gallery-update-2/
Holy crap it works: www.flickr.com/photos/tbuser/7013251283/in/photostream
It's a little buggy and hard to get a complete scan. Also needs some more work calibrating it as it's slightly distorted, however initial impressions - awesome improvement.
+2.5 reading glasses taped to front of Kinect. ReconstructMe settings:
camera_size_x: 640
camera_size_y: 480
camera_fx: 514.16
camera_fy: 514.16
camera_px: 320
camera_py: 240
camera_near: 100
camera_far: 2000
volume_size: 512
volume_min {
x: -250
y: -250
z: 400
}
volume_max {
x: 250
y: 250
z: 900
}
integrate_truncation: 10
integrate_max_weight: 64
icp_max_iter: 20
icp_max_dist2: 200
icp_min_cos_angle: 0.9
smooth_normals: false
disable_optimizations: false
extract_step_fact: 0.5
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coneyislandusa 14 months ago | reply
Kinect Needs Glasses!
Ufodoom 5 months ago | reply
Watching this I wonder if it would be an improvement to use Nyko zoom lens for kinect www.nyko.com/products/product-detail/?name=Zoom , what do you think?
Tony Buser 5 months ago | reply
Nykon zoom does not work, the nykon doesn't magnify - it increases field of view like with a fish eye lens.
Akufnx 2 months ago | reply
Hey Tony,
I am trying to set up this hack for my kinect and was wondering where the settings you provide should be put. I browsed the ReconstructMe/cfg and econstructMe/cfg/sensor folder but the files I found there did not appear to have the same structure as yours.
By the way, did you come out with newer settings for this hack?
I am running ReconstructMeQT version 1.2.95 with the Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK (as the PrimeSense driver did not manage to work for me).
Thanks for your help!