Computing Range Flow from Multi-modal Kinect Data

In this paper, we present a framework for range flow estimation from Microsoft's multi-modal imaging device Kinect. We address all essential stages of the flow computation process, starting from the calibration of the Kinect, over the alignment of the range and color channels, to the introduction of a novel multi-modal range flow algorithm which is robust against typical (technology dependent) range estimation artifacts.

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