I have tried to combine Kinect Fusion and the Time-Varying Dataset concept into one by obtaining two time varying PLYs of a scenario and converting them into PCDs. The link to this small dataset could be found at
https://uwmadison.box.com/s/bgw63fi54y5ir5wkedav
Meanwhile, since I did not have OpenNI support in my machine as I have deleted it while installating Kinect SDKs, I could not try running the program to visualise it. Nevertheless, the comparison of the two PLYs looks so in MeshLab.
The scans look intact and the Kinect’s depth sensors were actually working much better compared to last week since I moved the Kinect slowly across the space.
The codes to the capture and viewing program that I have worked with until now can be found at
https://github.com/nsubramaniam/rekinstruct
For some reason, using the Multi Static Kinects option in the Kinect SDKs which obtains points from two Kinects gives an error while opening the PLY file it saves. The error corresponds to something like “Header has an EoF” which I believe is erroneous metadata. I am looking into it. Will update once I get to know something.!