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Because of the complementary nature of the information provided, it has proved an attractive resource for researchers with very different backgrounds. In summer 2014, Microsoft launched a new generation of Kinect on the market, based on time-of-flight technology. This paper proposes a calibration of Kinect for Xbox One imaging sensors, focusing on the depth camera. The mathematical model that describes the error committed by the sensor as a function of the distance between the sensor itself and the object has been estimated. All the analyses presented here have been conducted for both generations of Kinect, in order to quantify the improvements that characterize every single imaging sensor. Experimental results show that the quality of the delivered model improved applying the proposed calibration procedure, which is applicable to both point clouds and the mesh model created with the Microsoft Fusion Libraries.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s151127569","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,11,2]],"date-time":"2015-11-02T02:53:57Z","timestamp":1446432837000},"page":"27569-27589","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":160,"title":["Calibration of Kinect for Xbox One and Comparison between the Two Generations of Microsoft Sensors"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Diana","family":"Pagliari","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA)-Geomatic and Geodesy Section, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9559-4387","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Livio","family":"Pinto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA)-Geomatic and Geodesy Section, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"El-Iaithy, R.A., Jidong, H., and Yeh, M. 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