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How to transform a point cloud from camera coordinates to world coordinates

asked 2011-03-20 08:23:27 -0500

JediHamster
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I have a Kinect sensor at about 1.5 meters elevation angled downwards by 40 degrees and which can also pan to arbitrary positions, and I'd like to transform the camera/depth/points point cloud from camera coordinates to world coordinates (or an egocentric world frame) so that I can then produce a correct fake laser scan from a fixed horizontally aligned virtual laser scanner at the base of the robot. How do I do this?

So far I've been trying pcl_ros::transformPointCloud, but without much success. I don't want to actually move the points (as seen in Rviz), merely reassign their coordinates relative to a different frame.

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answered 2011-03-20 08:32:26 -0500

tfoote

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pcl_ros::transformPointCloud is exactly what you want. It computes the positions of each point with respect to a different coordinate frame.

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It might be that I've been using the wrong variant. I have been explicitly calculating a transform from one frame to another, then applying it, but that's probably not what I should be doing.

JediHamster ( 2011-03-20 08:42:31 -0500 )edit

Ok, I think I've got it. The variant I needed was pcl_ros::transformPointCloud(destination_frame,from_cloud,to_cloud,TransformListener)

JediHamster ( 2011-03-20 08:47:42 -0500 )edit

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