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I'm wanting to convert a filtered pointcloud2 message into separate depth and rgb image messages. RGBDSLAM requires an input of a RBG image topic as well as a depth image topic. I have tried to just pass in the filtered pointcloud2 message into "config/topic_points", but no frames are captured. Any ideas?
System: Ubuntu, Fuerte, Precise
I assume you are using a Kinect, so then my question is why you would want to convert this? Originally the images received from the Kinect are depth images and RGB images already, the two are just combined to form a pointcloud with RGB data in one matrix. Splitting combined images seems a bit redundant then
In other words, I would advice you to retrieve RGB and depth images instead, from their own respective frames.
I agree with Hansg91. Obtaining depth and color images from kinect-based pointclouds do not make sense. In this case you shouldn't generate a pointcloud in first place. However as long as your pointcloud is organized (aligned in image coordinates), you can easily revert the conversion by extracting the z-axes which gives you the depth image and use the corresponding rgb values of the points to reconstruct the color image.
Asked: 2013-02-22 05:54:15 -0600
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Last updated: Feb 22 '13
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RGBDSLAM requires "sensor_msgs:Image" whereas my filtered message is "sensor_msgs:Pointcloud2". Looks as though I will have to break my filter into two parts: one for depth, one for rgbd so I can publish two separate filtered image messages.
Was this comment meant for my post? If so, you can also acquire depth and rgb images separately, which sounds exactly like what you need.
Yes, I realized I should break up the filter. I think I might run into pcl issues involving fromROSmsg() because I am trying to grab the data from a sensor_msg::Image and not a sensor_msg::Pointcloud2. I'll make those changes and post an update.