PCL v1.1.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2011-07-18 // almost 13 years ago
    • ๐Ÿ†• new 3D features:

      • SHOT (Signature of Histograms of Orientations)
      • PPF (Point-Pair Features)
      • StatisticalMultiscaleInterestRegionExtraction
      • MultiscaleFeaturePersistence
    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ improved documentation:

      • sample consensus model coefficients better explained
      • new tutorials (RadiusOutlierRemoval, ConditionalRemovalFilter, ConcatenateClouds, IterativeClosestPoint, KdTreeSearch, NARF Descriptor visualization, NARF keypoint extraction, ConcaveHull, PCLVisualizer demo)
    • ๐Ÿ†• new surface triangulation methods:

      • MarchingCubes, MarchingCubesGreedy
      • OrganizedFastMesh
      • SurfelSmoothing
      • SimplificationRemoveUnusedVertices
    • ๐Ÿ†• new registration methods:

      • PyramindFeatureMatching
      • CorrespondenceRejectorSampleConsensus
    • ๐Ÿ†• new general purpose classes/methods:

      • Synchronizer
      • distance norms
      • TextureMesh
      • PointCloud.{isOrganized, getMatrixXfMap)
      • SACSegmentation now works with PROSAC too
      • PCDViewer now reads VTK files
      • new Mouse and Keyboard events for PCLVisualizer
      • PCLVisualizer.{addText3D, addCoordinateSystem (Eigen::Matrix4f), deleteText3D, updatePointCloud, renderViewTesselatedSphere, resetCameraViewpoint, getCameras, getViewerPose}
      • ONIGrabber, DeviceONI
      • ImageRGB24, IRImage
      • generic FileReader + FileWriter
    • optimizations:

      • faster pipelinening by not recreating a fake set of indices everytime
      • rendering optimizations for PCLVisualizer
      • copyPointCloud is now faster and can copy the intersections of the fields in both input datasets
      • VoxelGrid is now ~20Hz for Kinect data
    • ๐Ÿ†• new applications:

      • VFH NN classification
      • 3D concave hulls
      • 3D convex hulls
      • ICP registration
      • Planar segmentation
      • Stream compression
      • Range image viewer
      • Voxel Grid
      • IntegralImage normal estimation
    • ๐Ÿ›  issues fixed: #75, #106, #118, #126, #132, #139, #156, #182, #184, #189, #197, #198, #199, #201, #202, #203, #210, #213, #211, #217, #223, #225, #228, #230, #231, #233, #234, #240, #247, #250, #251, #254, #255, #257, #258, #259, #261, #262, #264, #265, #266, #267, #268, #269, #273, #276, #278, #279, #281, #282, #283