Point Cloud Library Wrapper (plugin)

Introduction

qPCL is a simple interface to some methods of the PCL library.

Therefore, if you use this tool for a scientific publication, please cite the PCL project before citing CloudCompare (which is also very good but less important in this particular case ;).

CloudCompare simply adds dialogs to set some parameters (see below) and a seamless integration in its own workflow.

This plugin has been developed by Luca Penasa (University of Padova).

Available methods

The following methods are currently accessible though this interface:

• Estimate Normals and Curvature (to compute the normals - and optionally the curvature - of a point cloud)
• Fast Global Registration (to registration point clouds - with normals - with no initial/rough alignment)
• Statistical Outliers Removal (cleaning filter) [since version 2.6.2, the SOR filter is integrated into the standalone version of CloudCompare]
• MLS (Moving Least Squares) smoothing / upsampling (to smooth - and optionally to upsample - a point cloud)