Scanning Your Home With Kinect Could Improve 3-D Robot Vision

Scanning Your Home With Kinect Could Improve 3-D Robot Vision: Seeking a way to crowdsource better computer vision, roboticists have launched Kinect@Home, a website that allows users to record pieces of their environments in 3-D with a Kinect camera. Should the project catch on, researchers may be on the cusp of an unprecedented way to amass 3-D data to improve navigation and object-recognition algorithms that allow robots to cruise and manipulate indoor environments.