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What is it?

The Point Cloud Library (PCL) is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing.

PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license, and thus free for commercial and research use. We are financially supported by a consortium of commercial companies, with our own non-profit organization, Open Perception. We would also like to thank individual donors and contributors that have been helping the project.

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PCL Tutorial at ICRA 2013

Tutorial on "Object Perception with Point Cloud Library (PCL)" accepted at ICRA, May 6-10, 2013, in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Latest News Articles

PCL meetups, May 15, 2013

Some of the PCL luminaries meet at ICRA to prepare the upcoming tutorial and discuss future plans for the development of PCL.

Kinect for Windows with PCL, May 13, 2013

Michael Dingerkus and Tomoto S. Washio are contributing a MS Kinect SDK to PCL bridge.

Community Resources and Repositories, Apr 16, 2013

The PCL community has contributed a number of links to publicly available repositories for data and software. The links are being organized on the PCL Media page.

PCL-ORCS - code sprint success!, Apr 15, 2013

The joint Open Perception-Ocular Robotics code sprint has concluded. The code sprint was a success. New code developed for the code sprint includes a pcl::Grabber for the Ocular Robotics RobotEye RE0x sensor and the RobotEye Viewer, a live point cloud visualization app using Qt and the RobotEye grabber.

Presentation at Smart Libraries for Computer Graphics, Mar 19, 2013

PCL will be presenting at the Eurographics Italian Chapter in Pisa on June 3-5.

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