Kinect UV Mapping

Question

For a project, I need to get a UV map of a point cloud from the Kinect. Is there some function in the Kinect SDK which allows us to do that? If not, is there another project which includes this functionality? I would prefer not to reinvent the wheel and write my own code for this if it was already done.

(PS - This must be fully automated, so we cannot use Blender or the like)

Answer 1

AFAIK there is nothing in the Kinect SDK to do this.

However, there is code to do this in the Point Cloud Library (PCL) which you can find here: http://pointclouds.org/

Specifically, I would take a look at http://www.pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/normal_estimation.php