Computer Vision and Machine Learning with RGB-D Sensors

Part I: Surveys

3D Depth Cameras in Vision: Benefits and Limitations of the Hardware Achuta Kadambi, Ayush Bhandari and Ramesh Raskar

A State-of-the-Art Report on Multiple RGB-D Sensor Research and on Publicly Available RGB-D Datasets Kai Berger

Part II: Reconstruction, Mapping and Synthesis

Calibration Between Depth and Color Sensors for Commodity Depth Cameras Cha Zhang and Zhengyou Zhang

Depth Map Denoising via CDT-Based Joint Bilateral Filter Andreas Koschan and Mongi Abidi

Human Performance Capture Using Multiple Handheld Kinects Yebin Liu, Genzhi Ye, Yangang Wang, Qionghai Dai and Christian Theobalt

Human Centered 3D Home Applications via Low-Cost RGBD Cameras Zhenbao Liu, Shuhui Bu and Junwei Han

Matching of 3D Objects Based on 3D Curves Christian Feinen, Joanna Czajkowska, Marcin Grzegorzek and Longin Jan Latecki

Using Sparse Optical Flow for Two-Phase Gas Flow Capturing with Multiple Kinects Kai Berger, Marc Kastner, Yannic Schroeder and Stefan Guthe

Part III: Detection, Segmentation and Tracking

RGB-D Sensor-Based Computer Vision Assistive Technology for Visually Impaired Persons Yingli Tian

RGB-D Human Identification and Tracking in a Smart Environment Jungong Han and Junwei Han

Part IV: Learning-Based Recognition

Feature Descriptors for Depth-Based Hand Gesture Recognition Fabio Dominio, Giulio Marin, Mauro Piazza and Pietro Zanuttigh

Hand Parsing and Gesture Recognition with a Commodity Depth Camera Hui Liang and Junsong Yuan

Learning Fast Hand Pose Recognition Eyal Krupka, Alon Vinnikov, Ben Klein, Aharon Bar Hillel, Daniel Freedman, Simon Stachniak and Cem Keskin

Realtime Hand-Gesture Recognition Using RGB-D Sensor Yuan Yao, Fan Zhang and Yun Fu

Dr. Ling Shao is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. His publications include the Springer title Multimedia Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces.

Dr. Jungong Han is a Senior Scientist at Civolution Technology, Eindhoven, and a Guest Researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

Dr. Pushmeet Kohli is a Senior Researcher in the Machine Learning and Perception Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge and an Associate in the Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Dr. Zhengyou Zhang, IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow, is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Multimedia, Interaction, and Communication Group at Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA.