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Open Perception Mac OS X code sprint

Posted by Radu B. Rusu | Tags: pcl, open perception, sprints, mac

Open Perception meets OS X

After just a couple of weeks from the official launch, we are happy to announce that the Open Perception organization is sponsoring its first ever PCL Code Sprint. And because we are seriously standing by our commitment to make PCL truly cross-platform, this code sprint is very different than what we're used to: Fix PCL on Mac! What this means is that the lucky participant(s), besides fame and glory, will be receiving financial support through our already established code sprint pipeline, for working on improving the usability of PCL on OS X, and tackling several important issues, such as:

  • clean builds on OS X 10.6+, using different compilers: XCode 4.3+, GCC 4.2+, Clang
  • different methodologies for installing our dependencies (Boost, VTK, etc): source compiles vs prebuilt binaries (e.g., DMGs)
  • Cocoa vs X11 for QVTK (Qt+VTK)
  • analysis and scripts for MacPorts, Homebrew, Fink, CMake/SuperBuild
  • installation locations: /opt/local, /usr/local, user defined
  • offer support for Mac builds on our build farm, managed with TeamCity and CDash

Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 27, 2012

Open Perception

Posted by Radu B. Rusu | Tags: pcl, open perception

Over the weekend, in overflowing rooms at the Point Cloud Processing workshop and PCL tutorial at CVPR 2012, Willow Garage proudly announced the creation of Open Perception, Inc. (OP), an independent non-profit foundation, focused on advancing the development and adoption of open source software for 2D and 3D processing of sensory data. For more details about the announcement, please see the official press release.


Open Perception is founded by a global community of researchers and engineers for the benefit of the industrial and research 3D perception communities. The Point Cloud Library (PCL) project represents Open Perception's most important work to date consisting of a large scale, BSD-licensed open project for 3D point cloud processing.


The foundation is set up to receive donations and sponsorship from anyone, and will concentrate on paying developers in the community, giving students travel grants and stipends, organizing open source events, and supporting its projects, such as…



Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 18, 2012

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