[Paraview] PCL plugin status and and support of newer PCL versions

[Stefan Otte]

Wow, I'm really impressed. I just recreated a little vision pipeline
that took me a couple of days with PCL. With ParaView and the PCL
plugin it took just about an hour, given that knew where I wanted to
go and I only tested it on a limited dataset but without prior
ParaView experience.

I have a few questions/remarks:

- Only a small part of PCL is wrapped :( Let's change that!
- Sadly, the TangoParaView binary does not include the OpenNI source.
I would have loved to test my pipeline on the real problem.
- ROS (Robot Operating System) [1] is pretty popular in the robotics
community. It's basically a middle ware (and much more) to transfer
all kinds of data such as point clouds. I guess it should not be too
difficult to write a) a source that subscribes to the point cloud
data, and b) a plugin that publishes the results of the pipeline
(e.g., the bounding boxes or the resulting cloud). Is that the right
way to go?
- The dev guide of the PCL plugin only mentions "tbd." in the
"Contributing to the PCL Plugin" section. So how does it work? Where
is the code? :)
- Is it possible to "export" the pipeline and have it run as its own process?


Cheers
 Stefan


[1] http://ros.org/


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Casey Goodlett
<casey.goodlett at kitware.com> wrote:
> Stefan,
>
> To help get you started the builds linked by this blog post contain a
> compiled version of the plugin.
>
> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/650
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Stefan Otte <stefan.otte at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd evaluate the combination of ParaView&PCL more before I actually
>> invest a lot of time. However, if it actually works as well as it
>> seems then yes, I could contribute patches.
>>
>>
>> Beste Grüße,
>>  Stefan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Casey Goodlett
>> <casey.goodlett at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Are there any plans to incorporate the PCL plugin into ParaView by
>> >> default?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I would love to see this happen.  Currently the main challenge is making
>> > sure all the PCL dependencies (boost, eigen, flann, etc.) are built
>> > across
>> > all the needed platforms.  Would you be able to help with dashboard
>> > builds,
>> > patches, etc?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Casey B Goodlett, PhD
>> > Technical Leader
>> > Kitware, Inc. - North Carolina Office
>> > http://www.kitware.com
>> > (919) 969-6990 x310
>
>
>
>
> --
> Casey B Goodlett, PhD
> Technical Leader
> Kitware, Inc. - North Carolina Office
> http://www.kitware.com
> (919) 969-6990 x310