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What is the accuracy of the Kinect sensor?

asked 2011-03-08 13:20:12 -0600

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updated 2016-10-24 09:01:51 -0600

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How accurate is the depth map of the Kinect sensor?

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answered 2011-03-08 13:23:07 -0600

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The accuracy regresses quadratically with the distance measurement. This wiki page gives more information.

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Aren't the axes on the graph on this wiki page reversed? That is, it should plot error vs distance, not distance vs error. Plus the units seem more appropriate to that anyway: meters on the x axis for distance and cm on the y axis for errors.
Eponymous gravatar image Eponymous  ( 2011-03-10 03:56:27 -0600 )edit
Thanks for the catch! I updated the graph.
vpradeep gravatar image vpradeep  ( 2011-03-10 05:05:05 -0600 )edit
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answered 2011-03-08 16:04:01 -0600

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The ultimate accuracy is going to be determined by the range resolution. The range resolution for triangulation based range sensing is given by:

delta_r = r^2/b*K_d

Where r is range, b is baseline, K_d is some constant based on the disparity resolution (focal length * disparity resolution for standard stereo).

I did some tests today and found that for our Kinect, using delta_r = r^2*0.0075 works pretty well.

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answered 2011-06-25 00:05:41 -0600

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This post is a wiki. Anyone with karma >75 is welcome to improve it.

I found your graph really what is the value of "disparity resolution for standard stereo"? Is the error in cm then?

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