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. Whether you’ve just discovered PCL or you’re a long time veteran, this page contains links to a set of resources that will help consolidate your knowledge on PCL and 3D processing. An additional Wiki resource for developers is available too. To simplify both usage and development, we split PCL into a series of modular libraries. PCL is cross-platform, and has been successfully compiled and deployed on Linux, MacOS, Windows, and Android. To simplify development, PCL is split into a series of smaller code libraries, that can be compiled separately. This modularity is important for distributing PCL on platforms with reduced computational or size constraints.
Features
- For 2D/3D image and point cloud processing
- Filter outliers from noisy data, stitch 3D point clouds together
- Segment relevant parts of a scene, and extract keypoints
- Compute descriptors to recognize objects in the world based on their geometric appearance
- Create surfaces from point clouds and visualize them
- PCL is released under the terms of the BSD license
Project Samples
