\r\nAlthough I work at a software company my background is in mechanical engineering, so I'm a sucker for hardware. You might have seen the work I did<\/a> to link Simulink with the Arduino platform. Needless to say, I was pretty excited when I saw Takashi, my colleague in our Japanese office, demonstrate this submission which allows you to connect a natural interaction device (NID) like Microsoft's Kinect or ASUS's X-tion Pro to Simulink. He has built a library of Simulink blocks that let you pull in data from an NID plugged into your computer's USB port. The interface is built on OpenNI<\/a>'s existing library, but allows you to leverage Simulink<\/a> and other products like the Computer Vision System Toolbox<\/a> to quickly build some advanced algorithms to interperet your gestures or motion.\r\n \r\nUnfortunately I don't have an NID (yet) so I haven't been able to try it out myself, but I have seen it demonstrated and was impressed with what could be done. The submission includes a library of basic blocks that allow you to acquire video, depth map, infrared data, motion information, and the location of joints in a skeleton:\r\n \r\n \r\nThe submission also includes a couple of example models so you can get up and running quickly (click to enlarge):\r\n \r\n \r\nComments<\/strong>\r\n \r\nIf you get a chance to try it out, let me know here<\/a> or leave a comment<\/a> for Takashi.\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Doug's pick this week is Simulink for Natural Interaction Device by Takashi Chikamasa.\r\n\r\nAlthough I work at a software company my background is in mechanical engineering, so I'm a sucker for... read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/files\/pick_01.png\")
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