Play Pong using parts of your body as paddle!

This game was created during a short sprint of one working week by Hannes Ovrén and Marcus Wallenberg, at the Computer Vision Laboratory of Linköping University, Sweden. The goal was to demonstrate what you can do with fairly simple computer vision and image processing methods.

The only thing you need to play is a Kinect sensor, and some friends!

However, the game was built to make use of Eddie the embodied, a research platform used in the Embodied Visual Object Recognition. If available, Eddie acts as a referee.

1. After initialisation, the first view shows what the Kinect sensor "sees".
2. Press Return to advance to the next screen (which looks similar) where faces are detected.
3. If the game has not started automatically, press Return again.
4. During play, the player silhouette is shown in green, and the contact surface in white.

The contact surface is calculated as the frontmost (closest to sensor) 20% of your body.

Make sure you install all of the requirements

• OpenCV (Tested on 2.4.7)
• Boost
• libfreenect
• SDL2
• SDL2_image
• SDL2_ttf
• portaudio (for robot referee)
• espeak (for robot referee)

Then compile using make.

All code available under the GPL version 3. See LICENSE file for the full licensen.