[Paraview] PCL Plugin

[Casey Goodlett]

Eric,

That paper describes the approach for filter wrapping.  You will also need
to compile VeloView against your paraview build and then include the
VeloView plugin alongside the PCL plugin.

Hope that helps.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal <
eric.g.younkin at noaa.gov> wrote:

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



-- 
Casey B Goodlett, PhD
Technical Leader
Kitware, Inc. - North Carolina Office
http://www.kitware.com
(919) 969-6990 x310
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