PCL cloud upside down [closed]

asked 2014-03-14 04:56:40 -0500

kmb11 gravatar image

updated 2014-03-17 05:12:17 -0500

Hello,

I have used a code from the PCL website that displays a Point Cloud from a Kinect using PCL Viewer. The Point Cloud that is displayed is upside down and is a fraction of the cloud that it would normally display. The exact same code works fine on an almost identical computer that does not have ROS installed, using the same Kinect. I am using Ubuntu 13.04 raring. I am wondering if the PCL code is interfering with ROS's PCL libraries. I have Hydro installed on this machine.

I have main.cpp in a src/ folder and am running the code from the build folder after making it.

Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance.

The code (main.cpp) I am running is as follows:

#include <iostream>

#include <pcl/io/openni_grabber.h>
#include <pcl/io/pcd_io.h>
#include <pcl/visualization/cloud_viewer.h>
#include <pcl/console/parse.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace pcl;

PointCloud<PointXYZRGBA>::Ptr cloudptr(new PointCloud<PointXYZRGBA>); // A cloud that will store colour info.
PointCloud<PointXYZ>::Ptr fallbackCloud(new PointCloud<PointXYZ>);    // A fallback cloud with just depth data.
boost::shared_ptr<visualization::CloudViewer> viewer;                 // Point cloud viewer object.
Grabber* kinectGrabber;                                               // OpenNI grabber that takes data from Kinect.
unsigned int filesSaved = 0;                                          // For the numbering of the clouds saved to disk.
bool saveCloud(false), noColour(false);                               // Program control.

void
printUsage(const char* programName)
{
   cout << "Usage: " << programName << " [options]"
        << endl
        << endl
        << "Options:\n"
        << endl
        << "\t<none>     start capturing from a Kinect device.\n"
        << "\t-v NAME    visualize the given .pcd file.\n"
        << "\t-h         shows this help.\n";
}

// This function is called every time the Kinect has new data.
void
grabberCallback(const PointCloud<PointXYZRGBA>::ConstPtr& cloud)
{
   if (! viewer->wasStopped())
       viewer->showCloud(cloud);

   if (saveCloud)
   {
       stringstream stream;
       stream << "inputCloud" << filesSaved << ".pcd";
       string filename = stream.str();
       if (io::savePCDFile(filename, *cloud, true) == 0)
       {
           filesSaved++;
           cout << "Saved " << filename << "." << endl;
       }
       else PCL_ERROR("Problem saving %s.\n", filename.c_str());

       saveCloud = false;
   }
}

// For detecting when SPACE is pressed.
void
keyboardEventOccurred(const visualization::KeyboardEvent& event,
   void* nothing)
{
   if (event.getKeySym() == "space" && event.keyDown())
       saveCloud = true;
}

// Creates, initializes and returns a new viewer.
boost::shared_ptr<visualization::CloudViewer>
createViewer()
{
   boost::shared_ptr<visualization::CloudViewer> v
       (new visualization::CloudViewer("3D Viewer"));
   v->registerKeyboardCallback(keyboardEventOccurred);

   return(v);
}

int
main(int argc, char** argv)
{
   if (console::find_argument(argc, argv, "-h") >= 0)
   {
       printUsage(argv[0]);
       return 0;
   }

   bool justVisualize(false);
   string filename;
   if (console::find_argument(argc, argv, "-v") >= 0)
   {
       if (argc != 3)
       {
           printUsage(argv[0]);
           return 0;
       }

       filename = argv[2];
       justVisualize = true;
   }
   else if (argc != 1)
   {
       printUsage(argv[0]);
       return 0;
   }

   viewer.resetCameraViewpoint("cloud"); 
   // First mode, open and show a cloud from disk.
   if (justVisualize)
   {
       // Try with colour information...
       try
       {
           io::loadPCDFile<PointXYZRGBA>(filename.c_str(), *cloudptr);
       }
       catch (PCLException e1)
       {
           try
           {
               // ...and if it fails, fall back to just depth.
               io::loadPCDFile<PointXYZ>(filename.c_str(), *fallbackCloud);
           }
           catch (PCLException e2)
           {
               return -1;
           }

           noColour = true;
       }

       cout << "Loaded " << filename << "." << endl;
       if (noColour)
           cout << "This file has no RGBA colour information present." << endl;
   }
   // Second mode, start fetching and displaying frames from Kinect.
   else
   {
       kinectGrabber = new OpenNIGrabber();
       if (kinectGrabber ...
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Closed for the following reason PCL Question: The PCL community prefers to answer questions at http://www.pcl-users.org/ by tfoote
close date 2014-11-23 03:24:58.595176

Comments

I'd be curious if you found out how to correct the upsidedown part since I am also seeing this. It's a minor annoyance but still would be nice to get rid of.

Athoesen gravatar image Athoesen  ( 2014-05-20 09:15:42 -0500 )edit

Sorry, I didn't

kmb11 gravatar image kmb11  ( 2014-05-20 11:17:28 -0500 )edit

All I had to do was take the negative y and z values to correct

progham gravatar image progham  ( 2016-06-24 18:02:26 -0500 )edit