# How can get the body outline contour through the Kinect?

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> [@jiangjun](#):
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> opencv.loadImage(kinect.getColorImage())

1. I don’t have a kinect to test here, but it looks like you are trying to find contours on the color image – not on the depth image. Is that what you meant to do? Are you working from an example sketch? What kind of contour are you trying to find – the silhouette of a person?

2. I believe that the two cameras (the color camera and depth camera) are different sizes. Many kinect tutorials suggest ways of dealing with this issue.

You might also find this helpful – another kinect project with silhouettes. [How to use heat map colors to filter a person's silhouette? - #18 by clab](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-use-heat-map-colors-to-filter-a-persons-silhouette/304/18)

Have you tried the MaskTest example from the library you are using?

> **[GitHub - ThomasLengeling/KinectPV2: Kinect4W 2.0 library for Processing](https://github.com/ThomasLengeling/KinectPV2)**
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> Kinect4W 2.0 library for Processing. Contribute to ThomasLengeling/KinectPV2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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