Ecosyste.ms: Awesome

An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Point Cloud Library (PCL)
https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl

c-plus-plus computer-vision cpp pcl point-cloud pointcloud

Last synced: about 2 months ago
JSON representation

Point Cloud Library (PCL)

Lists

README 

        
# Point Cloud Library






[![Release][release-image]][releases]

[![License][license-image]][license]



[release-image]: https://img.shields.io/badge/release-1.14.0-green.svg?style=flat

[releases]: https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/releases



[license-image]: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-BSD-green.svg?style=flat

[license]: https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/blob/master/LICENSE.txt



Website

-------



The new website is now online at https://pointclouds.org and is open to [contributions](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/PointCloudLibrary.github.io) :hammer_and_wrench:.



If you really need access to the old website, please use [the copy made by the internet archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20191017164724/http://www.pointclouds.org/). Please be aware that the website was hacked before and could still be hosting some malicious code.



Continuous integration

----------------------

[ci-latest-build]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_build/latest?definitionId=9&branchName=master

[ci-ubuntu-20.04]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/9?branchName=master&stageName=Build%20GCC&jobName=Ubuntu&configuration=Ubuntu%2020.04%20GCC&label=Ubuntu%2020.04%20GCC

[ci-ubuntu-22.04]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/9?branchName=master&stageName=Build%20Clang&jobName=Ubuntu&configuration=Ubuntu%2022.04%20Clang&label=Ubuntu%2022.04%20Clang

[ci-ubuntu-23.04]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/9?branchName=master&stageName=Build%20GCC&jobName=Ubuntu&configuration=Ubuntu%2023.04%20GCC&label=Ubuntu%2023.04%20GCC

[ci-windows-x86]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/9?branchName=master&stageName=Build%20MSVC&jobName=Windows%20Build&configuration=Windows%20Build%20x86&label=Windows%20VS2019%20x86

[ci-windows-x64]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/9?branchName=master&stageName=Build%20MSVC&jobName=Windows%20Build&configuration=Windows%20Build%20x64&label=Windows%20VS2019%20x64

[ci-macos-12]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/9?branchName=master&stageName=Build%20Clang&jobName=macOS&configuration=macOS%20Monterey%2012&label=macOS%20Monterey%2012

[ci-macos-13]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/9?branchName=master&stageName=Build%20Clang&jobName=macOS&configuration=macOS%20Ventura%2013&label=macOS%20Ventura%2013

[ci-docs]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_apis/build/status/Documentation?branchName=master

[ci-latest-docs]: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_build/latest?definitionId=14&branchName=master



Build Platform           | Status

------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

Ubuntu                   | [![Status][ci-ubuntu-20.04]][ci-latest-build] 
 [![Status][ci-ubuntu-22.04]][ci-latest-build] 
 [![Status][ci-ubuntu-23.04]][ci-latest-build] |

Windows                  | [![Status][ci-windows-x86]][ci-latest-build]  
 [![Status][ci-windows-x64]][ci-latest-build]   |

macOS                    | [![Status][ci-macos-12]][ci-latest-build]  
 [![Status][ci-macos-13]][ci-latest-build]   |

Documentation            | [![Status][ci-docs]][ci-latest-docs] |

Read the Docs            | [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/pcl-tutorials/badge/?version=master)](https://pcl.readthedocs.io/projects/tutorials/en/master/?badge=master) |



Community

---------

[![Discord][discord-image]][discord-server]

[![StackOverflow][so-question-count]][stackoverflow]

[![Website][website-status]][website]



[discord-image]: https://img.shields.io/discord/694824801977630762?color=7289da&label=community%20chat&logo=discord&style=plastic

[discord-server]: https://discord.gg/JFFMAXS

[website-status]: https://img.shields.io/website/https/pointcloudlibrary.github.io.svg?down_color=red&down_message=is%20down&up_color=green&up_message=is%20new

[website]: https://pointclouds.org/



[so-question-count]: https://img.shields.io/stackexchange/stackoverflow/t/point-cloud-library.svg?logo=stackoverflow

[stackoverflow]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/point-cloud-library



Distribution

---------

[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/tiny-repos/pcl-pointclouds.svg)](https://repology.org/project/pcl-pointclouds/badges)

[![latest packaged version(s)](https://repology.org/badge/latest-versions/pcl-pointclouds.svg)](https://repology.org/project/pcl-pointclouds/versions)



Click to see all





    Packaging status






Description

-----------

The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.



PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use. We are financially supported by a consortium of commercial companies, with our own non-profit organization, Open Perception. We would also like to thank individual donors and contributors that have been helping the project.



Compiling

---------

Please refer to the platform specific tutorials:

 - [Linux](https://pcl-tutorials.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compiling_pcl_posix.html)

 - [Mac OS X](https://pcl-tutorials.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compiling_pcl_macosx.html)

 - [Microsoft Windows](https://pcl-tutorials.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compiling_pcl_windows.html)



Documentation

-------------

- [Tutorials](https://pcl-tutorials.readthedocs.io/)

- [PCL trunk documentation](https://pointclouds.org/documentation/)



Contributing

------------

Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).



Issues

------

To report issues, please read [CONTRIBUTING.md#bug-reports](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#bug-reports).



For general questions on how to use the PCL, please consider one of the following alternatives instead:

* [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/point-cloud-library)

for Q&A as well as support for troubleshooting, installation and debugging. Do

remember to tag your questions with the tag `point-cloud-library`.

* [Discord Server](https://discord.gg/JFFMAXS) for live chat with

other members of the PCL community and casual discussions



Citation

--------

We encourage other researchers to cite PCL if they use PCL or its components for their work or baselines. The bibtex entry for the same is

```

@InProceedings{Rusu_ICRA2011_PCL,

  author    = {Radu Bogdan Rusu and Steve Cousins},

  title     = {{3D is here: Point Cloud Library (PCL)}},

  booktitle = {{IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}},

  month     = {May 9-13},

  year      = {2011},

  address   = {Shanghai, China},

  publisher = {IEEE}

}

```