Microsoft Research Computer Vision Contest for Kinect

Microsoft Research invites students, graduate students and all interested in computer vision to the competition for applications for Kinect. To participate in the competition you need to come up with an interesting application of Kinect and submit an application with a brief description of the project by January 15. Until February 28, it is required to develop a prototype of the program based on Kinect for Windows and to prepare a video in English, demonstrating the work of the prototype. The competent jury will select the 5 best works, the authors of which will go to Cambridge (UK) at Microsoft Research School, where they can present their projects and talk with the authors of Kinect technologies. Certificates to the winners will be presented by Vice President of Microsoft Research Connections Tony Hey.

More information about the competition can be found on summerschool2011.graphicon.ru/en/contest .

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The Kinect sensor revolutionized the user interface area and opened up a new era of no-touch interfaces. It consists of two depth sensors, a color video camera and a microphone grille. The Kinect for Windows library has implemented methods for determining a person’s posture, as well as face and voice recognition, which allows you to control devices from a distance using gestures and voice commands.

After the release of Kinect for Xbox, the sensor immediately found a lot of applications channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect . Kinect entered the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest selling gadget in history.

The post was published at the request of Oli Barinova.

The illustration is taken from the Andrew Fitzgibbon presentation at Microsoft Summer School on computer vision: summerschool2011.graphicon.ru/en/courses/awf .