[vtkusers] Point Cloud Registration using ICP

[David Doria]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM, John Durkin <jrd5084 at psu.edu> wrote:

> Dear vtk users and developers,
>
>
> I have a series of point clouds that describe a 3d scene.  I'm trying
> to register them all in the same coordinate system, preferably using
> iterative closet points algorithm.  Can I do this using
> vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform ?  I have my data stored as
> vtkPoints in vtkPolyData but vtkIterativeClosestPointTransform says it
> only maps surfaces.  Are there any better examples using ICP?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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John, I have put an example here:

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Iterative_Closest_Points_%28ICP%29_Transform

The implementation does not allow for partial overlap at all, all points
must have a good match, or one set must be a strict subset of the other to
get reasonable results.

Thanks,

David
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