Point Cloud Library (PCL) 1.14.0
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1/** \mainpage PCL API Documentation
2
3<h1>Overview</h1>
4
5The <b>Point Cloud Library (PCL)</b> is a <b>large scale, open project</b>[1]
6for point cloud processing. The PCL framework contains numerous state-of-the
7art algorithms including filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction,
8registration, model fitting and segmentation. These algorithms can be used, for
9example, to filter outliers from noisy data, stitch 3D point clouds together,
10segment relevant parts of a scene, extract keypoints and compute descriptors to
11recognize objects in the world based on their geometric appearance, and create
12surfaces from point clouds and visualize them -- to name a few.
13
14PCL is released under the terms of the <a
15href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_.28.22New_BSD_License.22_or_.22Modified_BSD_License.22.29">
16BSD license</a> and is open source software. <b>It is free for commercial and
17research use.</b>
18
19\image html pointcloudlibrary_logo.png
20
21PCL is cross-platform, and has been successfully compiled and deployed on
22Linux, MacOS, Windows, and Android. To simplify development, PCL is split into
23a series of smaller code libraries, that can be compiled separately. This
24modularity is important for distributing PCL on platforms with reduced
25computational or size constraints.
26
27Please visit http://www.pointclouds.org for more information.
28
29<h1>Quick Links</h1>
30<ul>
31 <li>Main Website: http://www.pointclouds.org</li>
32 <li>GitHub Repository: https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary</li>
33 <li>Continuous Integration: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_build</li>
34 <li>Changelog: https://pointcloudlibrary.github.io/documentation/changelog.html</li>
35</ul>
36
37<h1>References</h1>
38
39[1] For more information, including a scientific citation (more to be added soon), please see:
40<pre>
41@@InProceedings{Rusu_ICRA2011_PCL,
42 author = {Radu Bogdan Rusu and Steve Cousins},
43 title = {{3D is here: Point Cloud Library (PCL)}},
44 booktitle = {{IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}},
45 month = {May 9-13},
46 year = {2011},
47 address = {Shanghai, China},
48 publisher = {IEEE}
49}
50</pre>
51<a href="http://www.pointclouds.org/assets/pdf/pcl_icra2011.pdf">Download PDF here</a>.
52
53If you are referencing PCL in your work, please do <a
54href="http://www.pointclouds.org/contact.html">contact us</a>. We're trying to
55gather a list of publications that use PCL, and present it here. That will give
56your work visibility, and it would help us understand what parts of PCL should
57we be working on. Thank you.
58
59*/