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There are currently no PCL-python bindings, so there is no single function to convert a point cloud into an image. You can however subscribe to /camera/depth/image, which is already an image and has 32-bit float valued pixels (values are in meters). It can be converted easily into a cvMat using cv_bridge (see this post for further details).

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