Virtual Machine: OpenNi with Xtion PRO LIVE

Creates a VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Vagrant for Xtion PRO LIVE development.

What will be installed

• Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit LTS
• wget, curl, htop, vim, emacs, X
• libusb-1.0-0-dev, freeglut3-dev, unzip
• mono-complete, python, doxygen, graphviz

TODO

• OpenNI
• Nite
• Sense
• OpenCV with OpenNI support
• PCL?

Make this a new base box

• vagrant package --base <current-box-in-Vagrantfile>.box --output <new-boxname>.box
• vagrant box add <name> <new-boxname>.box
• vagrant box list

Usage

• Download and install git
• Download and install Vagrant 1.2.2
• Download and install VirtualBox
• Install the vagrant-vbguest plugin using vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
  • This ensures the machines guest additions match
• Install git submodules: git submodule update --init
• Run the command vagrant up
• On *unix to enter in the machine run the command vagrant ssh
  • On Windows it will output the configuration for using puTTy
  • Use vagrant ssh -- -Yt to use X

Overview

Note: Most of this is probably wrong

• NITE: Closed source middleware sitting on top of OpenNI that contains a lot of the algorithms to do the fun stuff. What? I haven't researched. Forums are a mess. It seems like it's more for skeletons and user actions then point clouds

• The simple-openni library: wraps OpenNI for it's use with the Processing programming language. (Notable for how often it comes up in web searches).

• OpenCV: is a decent computer vision library. Here are the installation instructions for use with OpenNI.

• PCL: Is a decent point cloud library. Here are instructions for using it with an Xtion

• This blog lists these versions for an Xtion Pro with ubuntu 12.04:

  • OpenNI unstable 1.5.4.0
  • Harware binaries stable version 5.1.041

• This blog breaks down the steps.

• This blog is best it breaks down steps and versions.

Tools to help debug

There is a nice post in Spanish that shows expected output for a Kinect. Just what we need!!

• dmesg
• lsusb
• lsmod
• rmmod