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Higher resolution image capture for applications dealing with face recognition would be awesome. Is the team holding off on face recognition until a higher reso

• Qworg 14y ago
  The camera resolution is fixed by the hardware. I think they'd have to wait until a better Kinect is built. That said, you COULD go the way of several hacks I've seen - marry a high resolution external camera to the Kinect rig, do the correspondence, and use the external camera as your face recognition input.
  • nitrogen 14y ago
    The Kinect (at least the version for the Xbox 360) is capable of providing 1280x1024 Bayer-encoded RGB images at a reduced frame rate.
• benlower 14y ago
  james: would love to better understand your scenario...might be more guidance we could provide. pls email me more details if you want (kinectninja at microsoft <.> com). that said, we do enable you to use the infrared feed and marry that to a hi-res external color camera.
  • marshallp 14y ago
    Why don't you provide object recognition on a large range of classes, like http://www.image-net.org/ http://www.image-net.org/ for example, and millions of specific objects + ocr, like what google goggles provides http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/ http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/ Your sdk is slow moving and limited for all the resources that your empire has at it's disposal.
    • TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
      No need to have a hostile tone here. We have a guy from MS here. I'm sure he doesn't make policy decisions, like what ends up on the SEC report. Do note, that the SEC report the last I checked, included the biggest competitors as Linux and the GPL. The last they'd give is source for the free masses to use.
      • marshallp 14y ago
        Yeah, but they are getting free marketing on here, it's not exactly a bootstrapped startup.