Detect the Kinect V2 Devices

Typically, each camera or image device in the Image Acquisition Toolbox™ has oneDeviceID. Because the Kinect^®for Windows^®camera has two separate sensors, the color sensor and the depth sensor, the toolbox lists twoDeviceIDs. Useimaqhwinfoon the adaptor to display the two device IDs.

info = imaqhwinfo('kinect'); info info = AdaptorDllName: '\toolbox\imaq\supportpackages\kinectruntime\adaptor \win64\mwkinectimaq.dll' AdaptorDllVersion: '5.0 (R2016a)' AdaptorName: 'kinect' DeviceIDs: {[1] [2]} DeviceInfo: [1x2 struct]

If you look at each device, you can see that they represent the color sensor and the depth sensor. The following shows the color sensor.

info.DeviceInfo(1) ans = DefaultFormat: 'RGB_1920x1080' DeviceFileSupported: 0 DeviceName: 'Kinect V2 Color Sensor' DeviceID: 1 VideoInputConstructor: 'videoinput('kinect', 1)' VideoDeviceConstructor: 'imaq.VideoDevice('kinect', 1)' SupportedFormats: 'RGB_1920x1080'

The following shows the depth sensor, which is Device 2.

info.DeviceInfo(2) ans = DefaultFormat: 'Depth_512x424' DeviceFileSupported: 0 DeviceName: 'Kinect V2 Depth Sensor' DeviceID: 2 VideoInputConstructor: 'videoinput('kinect', 2)' VideoDeviceConstructor: 'imaq.VideoDevice('kinect', 2)' SupportedFormats: 'Depth_512x424'

You can use multiple Kinect devices together, but only one Kinect V2 at a time. Multiple Kinect sensors are enumerated asDeviceIDs[1] [2] [3] [4]and so on. For example, if you had two Kinect devices, a Kinect V1 and a Kinect V2, the first one would haveKinect Color SensorwithDeviceID 1andKinect Depth SensorwithDeviceID 2and the second Kinect device would haveKinect V2 Color SensorwithDeviceID 3andKinect V2 Depth SensorwithDeviceID 4.