Fingers Tracking in the latest SDK ― where can I find it?

• MartyG

  • August 21, 2020 17:05

  Hi Matan  The RealSense SDK 2.0 does not have any built-in support for finger tracking.  The 2016 SDK for Windows supported it but that software (which is compatible with the SR300 camera but not modern models such as the 400 Series) is now obsolete and not supported or updated by Intel.

  It is possible to use the RealSense 400 Series cameras to recognize joints.  It is an advanced subject involving using multiple cameras to train a data-set before it can be used with a single camera.  Intel produced a seminar on the subject that is published on YouTube.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSHDyUXSNqY 

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• MartyG

  • August 23, 2020 09:09

  The old 2016 documentation used to have individual versions for particular SDK versions, but the current SDK's documentation does not.  The same documentation gets updated over time.  So yes, the above links should remain relevant as new SDK versions are released, because the documentation updates as changes are made to the SDK.

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• Matan

  • August 22, 2020 10:58

  Hi MartyG,

   

  Thanks for your clear and full explanation, it really makes the current status clear and transparent!

   

  Perhaps you could just only add a link to the up-to-date documentation of the SDK, as Google still brings up obsolete versions of it when searching. I'd be very thankful for this disambiguation, beyond the YouTube video which is a nice-to-have but also kind of obsolete (2018 .... things move fast in this area of machine learning). 

   

  TIA,

  Matan

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• MartyG

  • August 22, 2020 11:07

  Hi Matan  A useful tip for getting search results that are relevant to the modern SDK is to have the word librealsense at the start of each search term.  This ensures that the search focuses on the Librealsense GitHub forums, where the majority of help information about the current SDK can be found.

  An excellent site for the current documentation if your interest is program scripting is an unofficial one that draws content directly from the official docs and arranges it into a user-friendly format that can be searched with menus at the top of the page.

  https://unanancyowen.github.io/librealsense2_apireference/classes.html 

  Official documentation can be found at these links:

  https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/tree/master/doc 

  https://dev.intelrealsense.com/docs 

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• Matan

  • August 23, 2020 08:52

  So are the links from your last email pointing at the latest version of the SDK? I find it harder to pinpoint the latest compared to how purely open-source projects make such information crystal clear via a simple Internet search. Corporate documentation culture I guess :-))

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• Matan

  • August 23, 2020 09:23

  Excellent!!

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