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Point Cloud Library

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Original author(s)
  
Willow Garage

Type
  
Library

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Point Cloud Library

Initial release
  
March 2010; 7 years ago (2010-03)

Stable release
  
1.7.2 / September 11, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-09-11)

Repository
  
github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl

The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is an open-source library of algorithms for point cloud processing tasks and 3D geometry processing, such as occur in three-dimensional computer vision. The library contains algorithms for feature estimation, surface reconstruction, registration, model fitting, and segmentation. It is written in C++ and released under the BSD license.

Contents

These algorithms have been used, for example, for perception in robotics to filter outliers from noisy data, stitch 3D point clouds together, segment relevant parts of a scene, extract keypoints and compute descriptors to recognize objects in the world based on their geometric appearance, and create surfaces from point clouds and visualize them.

History

The development of the Point Cloud Library started in March 2010 at Willow Garage. The project initially resided on a sub domain of Willow Garage then moved to a new website www.pointclouds.org in March 2011. PCL's first official release (Version 1.0) was released two months later in May 2011.

Modules

PCL is split into a number of modular libraries.

References

Point Cloud Library Wikipedia