Point Cloud Library
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PCL (Point Cloud Library) is an open source framework for n-D Point Clouds and 3D geometry processing. The library contains numerous state-of-the art algorithms including filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction, registration, model fitting and segmentation. PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license, and is open source software. It is free for commercial and research use.
Documentation
The central site for detailed PCL information is the PCL Wiki. In addition, the project has a mailing list for users and developers, publicly archived on Nabble.
History
PCL's development started in 2008 at Willow Garage, with the purpose to provide a 3D point cloud data processing backing for ROS (Robot Operating System). Version 0.1 was released on March 10, 2009. [1] While initial development targeted Linux operating systems and ROS (Robot Operating System), as of version 0.6, PCL has been released as an independent library and provides partial support for Linux, Windows, MacOS, and Android.
Programming language
The library is written entirely in C++, and makes use of Boost shared pointers for all its internal data structures.
OS Support
PCL runs under Linux, Mac OS, Windows, and Android. The user can get official releases or take the current snapshot under SVN from the project's website. PCL uses CMake.
