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Originally Posted by lineskier
I don't know of any teams that were successful last year with the retro reflective tape. I believe a few will be this year, however I strongly believe that teams would be much more successful with the kinect, because there is a strong sdk backing it, and it is less susceptible to environmental variables.
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^This.
If people would take a look at a scene containing retroreflective tape with the IR Feed from the Kinect, I think they would instantly understand why the Kinect is awesome.
IR pollution can be an issue. But since we are looking for rectangles, it is easy to filter out other objects since most light sources aren't rectangles
Another huge advantage over a single camera system is being able to get a depth value for every pixel in the image. You can glean a LOT of informaion from this and you need no reference object in the scene.