Efficient Radius Neighbor Search in Three-dimensional Point Clouds

This repository provides the Octree implementation of the paper "Efficient Radius Neighbor Search in Three-dimensional Point Clouds" by J. Behley, V. Steinhage, and A.B. Cremers, University of Bonn presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.

Features

Fast radius neighbor search for three-dimensional point clouds.
Fully templated for maximal flexibility to support arbitrary point representations & containers
Supports arbitrary p-norms: L1, L2 and Maximum norm included.
Nearest neighbor search with arbitrary norms (added 25. November 2015).

Building the examples & tests

The octree itself has no dependencies. However, for compiling the examples, you need CMake and Boost C++ library. For building the examples you have to first build the project:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

To run the examples, you need some point cloud data:

wget http://jbehley.github.io/data/wachtberg_folds.zip
unzip wachtberg_folds.zip -d data

Now you can run the examples:

./example1 data/scan_001_points.dat

which perform some queries and demonstrate the flexibility of our Octree implementation to handle different implementations of points.

The different examples show some use cases of the octree. example1 demonstrates the general usage with point data types providing public access to x,y,z coordinates. example2 shows how to use a different point type, which non-public coordinates. example3 shows how to use the templated method inside an also templated descriptor.

We also provide a test case using the Google Test Framework (GTest), which is automatically build if the package is either found by Cmake or in the corresponding source directory, e.g., /usr/src/gtest/. You can invoke the testsuite with

./octree-test

Contact

Feel free to contact me (see also my academic homepage) if you have questions regarding the implementation.

Attribution

If you use the implementation or ideas from the corresponding paper in your academic work, it would be nice if you cite the corresponding paper:

J. Behley, V. Steinhage, A.B. Cremers. Efficient Radius Neighbor Search in Three-dimensional Point Clouds, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.

The BibTeX entry for the paper is::

@conference{behley2015icra,
     author = {Jens Behley and Volker Steinhage and Armin B. Cremers},
      title = {{Efficient Radius Neighbor Seach in Three-dimensional Point Clouds}},
  booktitle = {Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
       year = {2015}
}

License

This project is free software made available under the MIT License. For details see the LICENSE file.