RealSense and animals

[MartyG]

Hi everyone,

Thinking about how RealSense is not too strict in its interpretation of body parts (recognizing feet / toes as hands and knees as hand palms), I was wondering if anyone had considered trying out the camera with animals or pets that have vaguely human features (e.g dogs and their eyes, eyebrows, nose and paws).  Because animals are a lot shorter than humans, you could probably do a full body capture of an animal within the range of the camera's vision.  It might even recognize a dog's jaw via the chin point if it's not too hairy.

I would think that the biggest challenge would be getting the animal to stay in front of the camera!

[Colleen_C_Intel]

well it's usually not to much effort to get a cat to walk across a keyboard :>}

[MartyG]

True!  And animals would probably be inclined to stay in front of the screen and wave their paws in front of it if the camera inputs were used to generate a virtual equivalent of that animal that appeared to the animal to be responding to it.

Maybe somebody could make a veterinary application out of it too, such as using IR to scan the heart rate and blood flow of an animal, like it was suggested that RealSense could do for humans when it was first unveiled to the public in 2014..