# microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK

A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/azure-kinect-sensor-sdk
Homepage:  https://Azure.com/Kinect
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: kinect, sdk
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-07-03T18:51:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2823, "days_push": 791, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1575, forks 641 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:05.944123+00:00)

## What it is
A cross-platform (Linux and Windows) user-mode SDK in C++ for reading data from the Azure Kinect depth and RGB camera device. It provides access to depth and color streams, synchronized depth-RGB capture, motion sensor data, and device calibration.

## Use cases
- stream depth and RGB video from an Azure Kinect camera
- access gyroscope and accelerometer data from the Kinect IMU
- synchronize multiple Kinect devices with delay offsets
- read camera calibration data for 3D reconstruction
- capture depth frames for computer vision research
- record synchronized color and depth footage

## When to choose
- you have an Azure Kinect DK device and need low-level sensor access on Linux or Windows
- you need synchronized depth-RGB streaming with configurable delays
- you want device calibration and IMU data for robotics or 3D vision work

## When to avoid
- you don't own an Azure Kinect device
- you need body tracking (that requires the separate Body Tracking SDK)
- you need a maintained SDK for new hardware - the Azure Kinect DK has been discontinued

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: sdk, image-processing, computer-vision
- domain: computer-vision, hardware, robotics
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: kinect, depth-camera, rgb-camera, imu, sensor-streaming, camera-calibration, linux

## Member repositories
- microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:05.944123+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:57:36.174794+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.