[Paraview] PCL Plugin

Fri Jul 10 12:03:06 EDT 2015

You should compile against the VTK of paraview.  I have not tested Qt 5.5.

I have not recently tested building VeloView  against paraview outside of
the VeloView superbuild.  There may be unexpected problems.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Eric Younkin - NOAA Federal <
eric.g.younkin at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Thanks Casey.  I'm reading in the Veloview Developer guide (
> https://github.com/Kitware/VeloView/tree/master/Documentation) that
> Veloview requires VTK6 and Qt 4.8.  I'm currently compiling Paraview from
> source using Qt5.5 and VTK libraries that came with Paraview source.  Do I
> need to download VTK6 and Qt4.8 and use those?  I've had some issues with
> VS2013 and compiling with Qt4.
>
> Also, I'm currently getting the following repeating error upon configuring
> in CMake:
>
> CMake Warning (dev) in ThirdParty/QtTesting/vtkqttesting/CMakeLists.txt:
> Policy CMP0020 is not set: Automatically link Qt executables to qtmain
> target on Windows. Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0020" for policy details.
> Use the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning.
> This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
>
> I'm seeing some references on the VTK users group (
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2013-July/080543.html) that
> seem to indicate you can ignore them.  Any reason I shouldn't continue with
> Qt5.5?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Casey Goodlett <
> casey.goodlett at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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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