[Paraview] PCL Plugin

[Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal]

I should also mention that I have been reading this paper
<http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/images/1/1e/Paper.pdf> and a few other
sources.  I think I have a basic idea of the framework.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal <
eric.g.younkin at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Thanks Casey.  For someone with only moderate programming experience, how
> difficult would you say creating those additional wrappers and building a
> VLP-16 paraview plugin would be?  Do you happen to have any resources or
> guides for doing so?
>
> I will continue to look at building from source and check out Project
> Tango.  Thanks for the link.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Casey Goodlett <
> casey.goodlett at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal <
>> eric.g.younkin at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> Casey,
>>>
>>> I am mostly interested in the feature extraction routines and Paraview
>>> integration with the Velodyne VLP-16.  I'd like to experiment with PCL
>>> algorithms to try and pick out fixed objects such as buoys or piers from a
>>> VLP-16 mounted on our research vessel as we travel up the coast.  I think
>>> most of my errors are from attempting to build using Visual Studio 2013 pro
>>> and older Qt/PCL versions.  If I can use the most recent versions, that
>>> might help things.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like a cool project.  You may need to add some additional wrappers
>> for feature extraction if you are looking for things beyond the sample
>> consensus models that we have.  I dont think any of the point feature
>> histogram utilities are currently wrapped.
>>
>> Windows builds of the whole stack are a bit tricky.  Feel free to share
>> your error messages, and I'll help where I can.
>>
>> The plugin does not include support for the VLP-16 in its current state.
>> We have another project VeloView <https://github.com/Kitware/VeloView>
>> that builds a paraview plugin for VLP-16.  I have used this in combination
>> with the PCL plugin in the past, but the build is not straightforward at
>> this time.
>>
>>
>>
>>> The binaries you linked to here still require installation of Paraview
>>> and PCL correct?
>>>
>>>
>> This binary is ParaView with the pcl plugin built and packaged.  If you
>> download this it includes paraview and PCL.
>>
>> --
>> Casey B Goodlett, PhD
>> Technical Leader
>> Kitware, Inc. - North Carolina Office
>> http://www.kitware.com
>> (919) 969-6990 x310
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Eric Younkin LTJG/NOAA
> HSTP Liaison - East
> Marine Operations Center - Atlantic
> 439 W York St
> Norfolk, VA 23510
> Cell: 828-331-8197
>



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Eric Younkin LTJG/NOAA
HSTP Liaison - East
Marine Operations Center - Atlantic
439 W York St
Norfolk, VA 23510
Cell: 828-331-8197
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