Supported Hardware

Supported Imagers

RGB-D Imagers currently supported:

• Kinect v1 (XBOX, not Kinect for Windows)
• Mesa SwissRanger 4500
• Stereo Camera (Point Grey BlackFly - USB or IP)
• Kinect v2

Supported Hardware

The main requirement for each compute node: Linux-compatible x86 hardware capable of running Ubuntu 14.04 and the Robot Operating System (ROS). (You will likely need one compute node per imager in your system.) Our deployment experience suggests that modern Ubuntu-compatible machines with i7 CPUs and at least 8 GB RAM is a good setup for each node. Running on hardware from before 2011 is not recommended. OpenPTrack will not compile on a machine with less than 2.7GB RAM.

Faster CPU(s) can mean better tracking performance, and may also enable running more than one detection process (i.e., more than one sensor) per node. Do not run any node close to 100% CPU utilization, or you will likely see tracking performance suffer.

Kinect v2 support requires a CUDA-capable GPU. The NVIDIA GPUs that have been tested so far: NVidia GeForce 650, 660, 670, 740, 750, 760, 770, 840, 850, 860, and 870. 384 CUDA cores or more is recommended.

The Deployment Guide contains additional hardware recommendations, in the Tested Hardware section.

Supported OS

• Detection and tracking hosts: Ubuntu 14.04.
• Consumers: Any platform that can receive UDP datagrams.