KINECT...O-CALIB(1)

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version 2.14.7 · 3 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

kinect-stereo-calib — the calibration utility for the Microsoft Kinect sensor 💖 (it lives in the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit, aka MRPT, bestie, that's the manual it belongs to 🫶)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kinect-stereo-calib

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, just vibes 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so listen. kinect-stereo-calib exists so that calibrating the camera intrinsic and extrinsic parameters for the Kinect is actually easy, no cap. you need those parameters if you want an accurate reconstruction of colored 3D point clouds with this sensor. it's giving "necessary for your point clouds to not look like soup" energy 🔥

and like — calibration is gonna require a printed checkerboard, the same kind everybody uses for common camera calibration. yes, a physical one. you print it. you hold it up. it's iconic, it's classic, it's the way 🦋

the other thing?? it can also be used to calibrate any arbitrary stereo camera, as long as stereo images of a checkerboard are already saved to disk. so if you already did the shooting part, you're so set ✨

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug?? not the vibe, but pls report it anyway at:

https://github.com/MRPT/mrpt/issues

they want to know. fr fr. don't suffer in silence 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the application wiki page lives at:

https://www.mrpt.org/Kinect_and_MRPT

go read it, it's lowkey the main character of this whole situation 👑

💜 AUTHORS 💜

kinect-stereo-calib is part of the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT), and it was originally written by Jose Luis Blanco (University of Malaga). absolute legend behavior, we love to see it 🌈

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License. periodt 💅

on Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the BSD License can be found in:

/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD

okay and one last thing before you go — this whole page came from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-03-21, and it's a KINECT...O-CALIB(1) situation from the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT). mwah, go calibrate something cute, bestie 🎀✨🦋

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