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The Microsoft Kinect™ range camera (for simplicity just called Kinect™ in the sequel) is a light-coded range camera capable to estimate the 3D geometry of the acquired scene at 30 fps with VGA (640 x 480) spatial resolution. Besides its lightcoded range camera, the Kinect™ also has a color video-camera and an array of microphones. In the context of this book the Kinect™ light-coded range camera is the most interesting component, and the name Kinect™ will be often referred to it rather than to the whole product.

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    Carlo Dal Mutto, Pietro Zanuttigh & Guido M. Cortelazzo

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Mutto, C.D., Zanuttigh, P., Cortelazzo, G.M. (2012). Microsoft Kinect™ Range Camera. In: Time-of-Flight Cameras and Microsoft Kinect™. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering(). Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3807-6_3

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