My original goal was to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game the users play with their hands. I did not meet this goal, however I got pretty close. I got ALL of the computer vision aspects of my project done, and all that is left is translating matlab code into C# (not a lot though, just if-else statements), progamming a tic-tac-toe game (3 hours of work max), and manually translating bytes into useful information (ughhh lots of work). The big set-back in my project was how difficult it was to do anything with the live video feed coming from Kinect. It's the type of thing where if my computer was broken for 2 weeks (1/5 of the time of this class) I might have been abled to figure it out, but realistically it would have taken me more time.
Even without finishing, I felt that I was incredibly successful in my project. Near the end of the project I transitioned more into computer vision aspects, and greatly improved my code. Instead of working on the project just for a tic-tac-toe game, I went a lot more generatic. I created code that can literally be used to detect any part of the human body in any pose or position. If I combined all my scripts it would literally be as easy as
"python runme.py [dir_of_pos_data] [dir_of_neg_data] [dir_of_test_data] [num_trees]", let it run for 20 minutes to 3 days (depending ;) and then boom. A classifier that dynamically shows you how well it works, that is incredibly generic.
If I had wanted to I could have, as the Prof said "gotten away with murder" in terms of detecting where in a 3x3 grid someones hands were, and then based on whoes turn it was say it was an X or an O. But instead of focusing on the tic-tac-toe game part of the project, I focused on the computer vision aspects, and felt like I learned a lot more that way and have a better final product.
The questions I was looking to answer by engaging in this project where all about the Kinect and essiently what can it do? What I learned is that the Kinect is flat-out amazing. An incredibly cheap depth and RGB sensor, with remarkable accuracy. I feel that the Kinect in a few years might become a sandard for computer vision projects for objects between 1.5 and 6 meters away (once better documented drivers are made -_-,) and more people play with it.
