New OpenNI/NITE/PrimeSense Sensor version!

[Ziv Hendel]

Hi Everyone!

We're proud to announce that new versions of OpenNI, NITE & PrimeSense-
Sensor were updated in the download section of www.openni.org.

A full list of changes, the MacOSX version and a complete update of
the GitHub sources will happen tomorrow.

For now, he's a short list of major changes:
* Added the ability to load & save NITE skeleton calibration from
files.
* Improved .NET Wrappers (with feedback from the community).
* Improved NITE algorithms.
* Auto-detection of sensor capabilities (such as resolution /
compression / etc...) - No more hardcoded values (like X/Y res) in the
XML files!
* Preliminary DirectShow interface for image & audio.
* Native 64-bit windows support.
* Proper multi-sensor support (with NiViewer integration as a sample)
* Support for ASUS WAVI/Xtion devices.
* Added a brand new Unity wrapper which is now an integral part of
NITE.
* Switched Windows installer from NSIS to MSI/WIX (for proper
upgrade / add & remove / UAC support etc...).
* Split installers to redist (runtime DLLs only - no includes/samples/
etc...) and development versions.
* Many many many bug fixes & performance improvements!

Enjoy!

Ziv Hendel,
Real-Time & Embedded Team Leader
PrimeSense LTD.

[Mark Dunne]

Sweet! Downloading now. :-)

[Mark Dunne]

Hi Ziv,

Will the "Added the ability to load & save NITE skeleton calibration from 

files." work for OpenNI.net too?

Regards,

Mark.

[Rymixxx]

Two words: awe. some.

:D

One bit piques my interest in particular: multi-sensor support. Freakin' a, this is what I've been waiting for! Thanks :)

Steve

[Ziv Hendel]

Yes, you can use the new skeleton "SaveCalibrationDataToFile" and
"LoadCalibrationDataFromFile" functions from OpenNI.net as well :-)

Ziv.

[Mark Dunne]

Awesome! Thanks.

[Ziv Hendel]

To see a demo regarding the usage of OpenNI with multi-sensors, just
run:
NiViewer.exe -devices

This will output something like:
----------------
The following devices were found:
[1] PrimeSense RD1.08x (Serial: 1012140004)
[2] PrimeSense RD1.08x (Serial: 1012200003)
Choose device to open:
----------------

You can then check out the NiViewer sample sources to see how to use
it when you write code...
(It's pretty simple...)

Ziv.

[Rymixxx]

Thanks, that's great. I'd be doing it right now if I had two sensors available. I'm going to try to get my hands on another one tomorrow...

Steve

[avin]

Finally a new version!

I will create a new release of the sensor module with full Kinect
support as soon as sources are released :-)
(Hopefully it won't be very difficult...)

avin.

[CARMELO VELARDO]

Does anyone tried compiling the new files?

I updated my version in a test machine (the one I' m working on is still with the old version)
and I  get this error when trying to compile the NITE:

I use Ubuntu 10.10.


gmcs -out:../Bin/Sample-Boxes.net.exe -target:winexe -unsafe -o+ -r:OpenNI.net.dll -r:System.Windows.Forms.dll -r:System.Drawing.dll -r:../Bin/XnVNite.net_1_3_1.dll ../Boxes.net/*.cs ../Res/AssemblyInfo-NITE.cs

error CS0006: cannot find metadata file `System.Windows.Forms.dll'

Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
make[1]: *** [../Bin/Sample-Boxes.net.exe] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/carmelo/kinect/Nite-1.3.1.3/Samples/Boxes.net'
make: *** [all] Error 2


The installation order should be OK (OPENNI - SENSOR - NITE)


Carmelo

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[Ziv Hendel]

HI Carmelo!

It seems that you are missing some components of Mono ...

Please try to do:
sudo apt-get install mono-complete

That should solve it :-)

Ziv.

On Apr 11, 11:49 pm, CARMELO VELARDO <carmelo.vela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[CARMELO VELARDO]

Removing the Boxes.Net and the Samples/Players example from the Makefile made it.
In any case I don' t get any connection from the device.

I remember that some README were present in the previous versions (I don't see them in the tar.bz2 for Linux32 bit currently on the server).

There was explained how to cope with USB rules and configuration.

Did something changed?
I saw a new configuration file is present (or maybe my previous version was very old...)

Thank you.

[Ziv Hendel]

That README files comes from the GitHub source release which was not
updated yet...
(Will do that tomorrow).

You can still view the old one here:
https://github.com/PrimeSense/Sensor/blob/unstable/README

Anyway, the USB rules should be automatically installed when install
the sensor module.

Ziv.

On Apr 12, 12:06 am, CARMELO VELARDO <carmelo.vela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Crash]

Hehehehehe....nice i looked yesterday for new version ,but nothing and
today i saw this :) i was so happy... nice job ;)

[CARMELO VELARDO]

Thanks Ziv,

But still nothing.

Everything seems installed in the correct place but from all the Samples (and also from my applications) only this error comes out:

One or more of the following nodes could not be enumerated:


Plus for the Sample-PointViewer:

Device: PrimeSense/SensorV2/5.0.1.32: The device is not connected!


output of dmesg:

[ 1445.924761] usb 1-9.2: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 15
[ 1447.460685] usb 1-9.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16
[ 1449.252740] usb 1-9.3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 17

So  PrimeSense + RGB camera + Microphones(?) are detected as new device.

[blueskin]

Hi Ziv,

I get the same error. Initially I got
"The procedure entry point xnIsTypeDerivedFrom could not be located in
the dynamic link library OpenNI.dll"
I removed and reinstalled then I am getting the error

"One or more of the following nodes could not be enumerated: "

-CV

On Apr 11, 5:54 pm, CARMELO VELARDO <carmelo.vela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ziv,
>
> But still nothing.
>
> Everything seems installed in the correct place but from all the Samples
> (and also from my applications) only this error comes out:
>

> **One or more of the following nodes could not be enumerated:

[Amir Hirsch]

I didn't find the Unity wrapper in the unstable NITE for windows
64-bit distribution, but it is in the windows 32-bit distribution.

is there a reason that the unity wrapper was left of out of NITE for
windows 64-bit?

I'm going to attempt to copy the wrapper out of the win32 build and
use it with the win64 drivers now...

Amir

[Saurabh Jain]

Hi Ziv,

Thanks for the new version.

Are there any plans to release these libraries for ARM tool-chains?

Can you please share the road-map for library releases?

Regards,
Saurabh Jain
Ph: 9711379169

[david]

I could not run the example ... I got the following error:

The procedure entry point ?AddSupportedModes@XnPixelStream@@IAEIPAUXnCmosPreset@@I@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library XnDDK.dl..

[Saurabh Jain]

Hi Ziv,

Thanks for the new version.

Are there any plans to release these libraries for ARM tool-chains?
Can you please share the road-map for library releases?

Saurabh

[Yeouf Tan]

Hi, Zic

I trying to download and install OpenNI Unstable Build for Windows x64
(64-bit) v1.1.0.39 Development Edition for installing Kinect driver in
my windows 7 professional 64bits but the driver seem not install
properly. it was working fine with the previous version. Help and
guide pls~

[yiqi]

I can't install driver neither.

I checked "C:\Program Files\OpenNI\Driver\psdrv3.inf". Seems there is NO :

USB\VID_045E&PID_02B0.DeviceDesc="Kinect Motor"
USB\VID_045E&PID_02AE.DeviceDesc="Kinect Camera"

so how can we add the device , where is the .inf for install the Kinect
Device?

-----Origin-----
From: Yeouf Tan
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:02 PM
To: OpenNI
Subject: [OpenNI-dev] Re: New OpenNI/NITE/PrimeSense Sensor version!

Hi, Zic

----

[MichaelK]

I hope so too :)
Is it possible to install the current OpenNI/NITE versions when using
Kinect?

[lamaranu]

Great work!

Have you fix also something about the userGenerator function?
Using it with low framerates and with alternateView gives problems :(

[cman]

same issue

only message i get is

One or more of the following nodes could not be enumerated:

no more

On 11 Apr., 23:54, CARMELO VELARDO <carmelo.vela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ziv,
>
> But still nothing.
>
> Everything seems installed in the correct place but from all the Samples
> (and also from my applications) only this error comes out:
>

> **One or more of the following nodes could not be enumerated:

[MichaelK]

Maybe it's because this driver does not work with Kinect, but with the
PrimseSense device.
I think we should wait till avin has released a new kinect driver.

[CARMELO VELARDO]

ARGH. It could be.


What about compatibility with old (avin) drivers?
I think yesterday evening I tried that with no luck.
But I don't recall properly.

Has anyone at PrimeSense tried with a Kinect?

[Ricardo Torres]

Same problem here, driver for Windows and kinect seems like its not
activating the device. With the sensor 5.0.0 the context(xml) says
that it cannot buid the production nodes.


On Apr 12, 12:52 pm, Henner <henn...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the same problem like yiqi. Win7 does not find the new driver
> (3.1.2.0).
> I can install the driver but it isn't activated.

[Salem Sayed]

waiting for avin's updated drivers, how is the update process of OpenNI/Primesense should be done ? just update or uninstall and reinstall ?

[Joel Zambrano]

I noticed that the Nite .net wrapper 1.3.1.4 (Unstable) version refers to openni 1.1.38 (stable) is that correct? Should it not point to 1.1.39?

--
Dayam Joel Zambrano

[Ziv Hendel]

Hi again...

The MacOSX (10.7) version was just uploaded to the "unstable" download
page of www.openni.org.

Still working on the sources release, will update when ready... :-)

Ziv.

[jason gessner]

is 10.7 the right version?  Does this only work on beta builds of lion or is 10.7 a typo?

-jason

[Ziv Hendel]

Oops, it's for 10.6.
Sorry about the typo...I just fixed it.

Ziv.

[jason gessner]

Awesome, thanks!

One more question for you. people were previously using avin's sensor driver. Does the new release make that unnecessary for the mac or other platforms?

-jason

[Emrulez]

So unless Avin updates his sensorkinect drivers it is not possible to
make the Kinect work with the new versions?

[Marc Le Guen]

And now, How to get the old version of openNI ?

[blueskin]

@Marc:
Here's a link to download previous OpenNI v1.0.0.23
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15093824/OPENNI-Win32-1.0.0.23.exe

@Ziv Hendel: if am not allowed to share this file please let me know
and I can delete it. Thanks

[AMB]

On the Mac the samples for OpenNI v1.1.0.38 and NITE v1.3.1.3. Along
with avin's sensor driver seem to work great.
However, on the PC side I've tried both 32 and 64 and have had no luck
with the avin's sensor driver.
It sounds like we have to wait for an update on the PC side with
avin's sensor driver. In order, for it to work with the Kinect.

Am I understanding this right or wrong?
AMB

------

[christoph.pickl]

is there any way to access the motor/led with this new version?

[AMB]

Okay ignore my last reply it works on the Mac but freezes the Mac quit
often, I'd avoid the upgrade until a new driver for the Kinect is
available.

AMB

---

On Apr 13, 5:20 pm, "christoph.pickl" <christoph.pi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Rymixxx]

I was bitten by this too: new software will not work with the old avin Kinect drivers. Grr!

I guess the only thing to do right now is roll back to a previous version.

[Rymixxx]

Thanks for this blueskin, very helpful. I have to go back a version too. I have older versions of NITE and Sensor but not the version immediately prior to Tuesday's latest releases. Do you have these too?

Regards,

Steve

[purpledog]

I've just wasted an hour on this, the original post should have
mentioned that the driver will not work with kinect.

[Rymixxx]

Yup. My guess is rock/hard place for PrimeSense. With Microsoft's official drivers and SDK coming soon, PrimeSense are (IMO) in a tricky position. I'd love to see MS merge their official stuff into OpenNI, but if they don't then OpenNI actually competes with MS, and PrimeSense's relationship could become strained.

That's my view, anyway. In the mean time, you can go back a version. Brekel and Kinekthacks.nl are kindly hosting all the previous versions. Grab your copy from here:

http://www.brekel.com/?page_id=170

Just make sure you uninstall the drivers and software first.

Steve

[Ziv Hendel]

I've updated the OpenNI and Sensor sources at GitHUB....

You can also find a full change of changes in the CHANGES file.

Enjoy :-)

[Felix]

Just saw that the github repository of the PrimeSense Sensor driver
was updated.
So please, Avin, do your work :-)

[Rymixxx]

Thanks :) Grabbing now...

[Yeouf Tan]

hello Ziv,
Thanks for the updated, can u post the link? thanks

[Yeouf Tan]

found the link https://github.com/PrimeSense/Sensor, thanks Ziv

[Yeouf Tan]

the window 64x driver installation stil not working?

[jason gessner]

so what are the differences for Avin's sensor driver and why are they needed?  Ziv, should the new driver work fine with kinect on mac os x?

-jason

[AMB]

Wait will this update work with the Kinect, yes or no?

AMB

---

[sgtPerm]

Hi I am unsure which version to download, unstable/stable? Development/
Redistributable? I am using OpenNI for a university project on windows
7

[Paweł Królikowski]

@Jason - avin is designed to work with Kinect, PrimeSense is general, doesn't work with it. 

@AMB - it will, as soon as some1 modifies the driver, probably Avin. 

@sgtPerm - I guess you should find a complete how-to tutorial, follow it. I don't know if unstable version is bugged ( it's new so I guess nobody knows yet ), but one thing I'm sure is that you shouldn't mix unstable and stable. 

An example of complete how-to is here: http://www.studentguru.gr/blogs/vangos/archive/2011/01/20/how-to-successfully-install-kinect-windows-openni-nite.aspx :] 

[TcBoY]

Hi i m currently using the old openni and old nite and installed avin2
sensor
everything working find

if i wan to update the openni and nite to this new version
do i need to update avin sensor module too?

sorry for asking simple question

[James]

As far as i am aware, no.

Does anyone know how to get the previous unity wrapper that works? Or
is it just wait until this one is fixed?

> > > PrimeSense LTD.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Heresy]

Will you release a formal release note to list what changed in each
version in the package?
It looks like that there is no such documnet.

[Siyfion]

There is actually a CHANGES file that documents all the changes
between the versions.

Also, I'm having problems creating the Win32 redist; I keep getting
the following output when I run RedistMaker.bat:

File "C:\Kinect\OpenNI\Platform\Win32\CreateRedist\Redist_OpenNI.py",
line 52
print self.name
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Simon

[lamaranu]

tried Sensor (both stable/unstable) and OpenNI (unstable) and it
doesn't work:

I get these messages:

297 [INFO] OpenNI version is 1.1.0 (Build 39)-Linux-x86 (Apr 15
2011 11:22:44)
489 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/libXnVFeatures.so...
2478 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Scene:
PrimeSense/XnVSceneAnalyzer/1.3.0.18
2523 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. User:
PrimeSense/XnVSkeletonGenerator/1.3.0.18
2547 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/
libXnVHandGenerator.so...
3718 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
Gesture: PrimeSense/XnVGestureGenrator/1.3.0.18
3744 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Hands:
PrimeSense/XnVHandTracker/1.3.0.18
3760 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/
libnimMockNodes.so...
4510 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
ProductionNode: OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4532 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
Generator: OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4549 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
MapGenerator: OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4566 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
Device: OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4582 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Depth:
OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4602 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. IR:
OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4618 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Image:
OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4635 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Audio:
OpenNI/Mock/1.1.0.39
4649 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/libnimCodecs.so...
5349 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Codec:
OpenNI/16zP/1.1.0.39
5367 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Codec:
OpenNI/16zT/1.1.0.39
5383 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Codec:
OpenNI/Im8z/1.1.0.39
5398 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Codec:
OpenNI/JPEG/1.1.0.39
5413 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Codec:
OpenNI/NONE/1.1.0.39
5427 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/libnimRecorder.so...
6105 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
Recorder: OpenNI/Recorder/1.1.0.39
6128 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
Player: OpenNI/Player/1.1.0.39
6143 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/
libXnDeviceSensorV2.so...
10488 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
Device: PrimeSense/SensorV2/5.0.1.32
10521 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Depth:
PrimeSense/SensorV2/5.0.1.32
10542 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Image:
PrimeSense/SensorV2/5.0.1.32
10560 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. IR:
PrimeSense/SensorV2/5.0.1.32
10592 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node. Audio:
PrimeSense/SensorV2/5.0.1.32
10608 [VERBOSE] Checking /usr/lib/
libXnDeviceFile.so...
11938 [VERBOSE] Found exported production node.
Player: PrimeSense/File/5.0.1.32
12192 [VERBOSE] Requested to create a node of type
Image...
12236 [VERBOSE] Initializing USB...
12288 [INFO] USB is initialized.
15787 [WARNING] No PS sensor is connected!
Find image generator failed: Input pointer is null!

[MichaelK]

@lamaranu: Do you use Kinect? If so, you have to wait till there is a
kinect driver ;)
(or simply read the previous comments, to get your answers :P)

[lamaranu]

You're right..

I misread a post... I thought it was updated the kinect driver too,
sorry.

I'll wait for it :)

Cheers

[avin]

Done! :-)

I've just finished updating the git repository with the new version.

You can find it in:
https://github.com/avin2/SensorKinect

The bin directory has installers for Windows, Linux & MacOSX.

Please uninstall the old versions to avoid troubles...

avin.

[James]

This works great many thanks.

I finally got the wrapper for unity working.

Could someone tell me what all the examples are meant to do and how to
use them (and the same with the NITE examples). I can get them all to
load, but i don't know what to do.

> > So please, Avin, do your work :-)- Hide quoted text -

[Heresy]

Thanks for your answer, I found the file.

[Josh]

These changes do not appear to be working for me. The depth output
does not appear in NiViewer and the RGB camera is jittery. Any ideas?

[SyRenity]

Hi.

Just tried re-installing your version fresh - this time Windows
recognizes 3 devices as needed (audio, camera and motor), but I'm
still having blinking led, and any example I try to launch says:
One or more of the following nodes could not be enumerated:

Any idea how to sort out this issue?

Thanks!

[david]

Hi, thanks Ziv :)

I have tried them and works great :). However I have tried user tracking with multiple kinects and still found the same problem with the old version of OpenNI/PrimeSense... both user generators takes the information of the same kinect and thus I can only track the skeleton from the point of view of one kinect.. Have anybody tried this with the same result as me ? Do the new release of OpenNI support multiple user generators coming from different devices or not yet ? cause i still don't know if I have not succeed because I am doing something wrong or because it is not supported...

thanks,

[Brian O'Donnell]

I had the exact same problem! I have no idea how to fix it.

> > It looks like that there is no such documnet.- Hide quoted text -

[Marc Obaldo]

Hi avin,

The msi installer for Windows errors when using 64-bit files from OpenNI. The OPENNIVERSION is not detected and it keeps on saying it requires 1.1.0.39 or higher! It worked when I used the 32-bit files from OpenNI.

[Eddie Cohen]

Hi David,

 

How do you create those two UserGenerators? You have to explicitly tell each user generator which depth generator to use…

 

Eddie.

--

[david]

Hi Eddie,

I finally solved the problem. When I enumerated the user generators i got 4 user generators insetead of two (quite weird). I took the first and fourth generators and I managed to track the user from each kinect (the first three generators point to the same kinect). It would be nice if the user generator had one method to set an image with depth information...

thanks,

[Byron]

Eddie, how do you explicitly tell the user generator which depth
generator to use?

Thanks,
Byron

On Apr 23, 10:43 pm, Eddie Cohen <Eddie.Co...@PrimeSense.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>

> How do you create those two UserGenerators? You have to explicitly tell each user generator which depth generator to use...