Nuitrack for Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine plugin to bridge Nuitrack. Nuitrack is a middleware to provide 3d skeleton tracking solution using a depth sensor. It has many PROs: AI-based, relatively fast and stable, coverage of depth sensor brands. Nuitrack has an official plugin for Unreal Engine which still only provides native C++ interface. This plugin aims to encapsulate Nuitrack's C++ functions and align with Unreal Engine manner.

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Prerequisites

• Nuitrack is installed.
  • Free Trial version will work but timeout within 3 minutes.
• Replace the TBB library in your Unreal Editor with the library from Nuitrack
  • follow this
• Locate "NuitrackModule" directory from original SDK repo into this plugin's /Source/ directory.
• Unreal Engine 4.27~
  • Only tested with 4.27. May work with lower.

Features

Almost all implementations are provided via NuitrackIO UObject.

Data acquisition

• Color / Depth / User buffer can be written into RenderTarget2D.
  • Depthe data are stored RenderTarget2D into standard 8bit RGBA texture.
    R: first 8bit as uint8 of original uint16 sample
    G: last 8bit as uint8 of original uint16 sample
    B: 0x00 or 0xFF (if depth sample is invalid)
    A: 0xFF (Constant value)
• Skeleton tracking, Hand tracking, Gesture recognizer are accessible through Blueprint.

In-Editor activation

• NuitrackIO and NuitrackVisualizer Actor will work in editor time

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• Skeletal mesh will work via Anim blueprint
• See ABP_NuitrackToHumanoid which is compatible with Manequine in ThirdPerson sample.

License

MIT License

Copyright 2021 Ayumu Nagamtsu

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