What is it?
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 Open Perception, Willow Garage, NVIDIA, Google, Toyota, Trimble, Urban Robotics, Honda Research Institute, Sandia, Dinast, Optronic, Ocular Robotics, Velodyne, Spectrolab, Fotonic, Leica Geosystems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Southwest Research Institute, and MKE. We would also like to thank individual donors and contributors that have been helping the project.
Quick Links
- Users: API Documentation / Users forum
- Developers: Dev Zone / Build Farm / Developers forum
Events
Tutorial on "Object Perception with Point Cloud Library (PCL)" accepted at ICRA, May 6-10, 2013, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
PCL Tutorial at RAS Summer School 2012
Tutorial at "Robot Vision and Applications" RAS Summer School, December 3-7, 2012 in Santiago, Chile.
Latest News Articles
PCL meetups, May 15, 2013
Some of the PCL luminaries meet at ICRA to prepare the upcoming tutorial and discuss future plans for the development of PCL.
Kinect for Windows with PCL, May 13, 2013
Michael Dingerkus and Tomoto S. Washio are contributing a MS Kinect SDK to PCL bridge.
Community Resources and Repositories, Apr 16, 2013
The PCL community has contributed a number of links to publicly available repositories for data and software. The links are being organized on the PCL Media page.
PCL-ORCS - code sprint success!, Apr 15, 2013
The joint Open Perception-Ocular Robotics code sprint has concluded. The code sprint was a success. New code developed for the code sprint includes a pcl::Grabber for the Ocular Robotics RobotEye RE0x sensor and the RobotEye Viewer, a live point cloud visualization app using Qt and the RobotEye grabber.
Presentation at Smart Libraries for Computer Graphics, Mar 19, 2013
PCL will be presenting at the Eurographics Italian Chapter in Pisa on June 3-5.
SwRI and NIST sponsor a new PCL code sprint, Mar 14, 2013
The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are sponsoring a new PCL code sprint on the topic of human detection and tracking out of 3D data.
New Code Sprints
Honda Research Institute Code Sprint
Honda Research Institute is sponsoring the development of 3D technologies for driver-assistance systems in PCL. Currently accepting applications.
Leica Geosystems is sponsoring point cloud compression algorithmic work. Currently accepting applications.
Active Code Sprints
The list of undergoing code sprints is shown below.
