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May 16th - May 22nd, 2022

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MeshLab - MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing 3D triangular meshes and pointcloud.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars3k

Mar 28th - Apr 3rd, 2022

Others

Foxglove - Foxglove Studio is an integrated visualization and diagnosis tool for robotics, available in your browser or for download as a desktop app on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Jan 17th - Jan 23rd, 2022

Algorithms

Simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM and LIDAR-based odometry and or mapping LOAM

Removert 📰 - Remove, then Revert: Static Point cloud Map Construction using Multiresolution Range Images.

Jan 3rd - Jan 9th, 2022

Algorithms

Semantic segmentation

SuperPoint Graph 📰- Large-scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Superpoint Graphs

Algorithms

Object detection and object tracking

urban_road_filter 📰-

Related awesome

Awesome electronics :octocat:stars4k

Nov 29th - Dec 5th, 2021

Algorithms

Semantic segmentation

Plane Seg :octocat:stars114 - ROS comapatible ground plane segmentation; a library for fitting planes to LIDAR.

YouTube video 🔴

Nov 22nd - Nov 28th, 2021

Algorithms

Semantic segmentation

LIDAR-MOS 📰 - Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LIDAR Data

Nov 15th - Nov 21st, 2021

Datasets

USyd Dataset- The Univerisity of Sydney Campus- Dataset - Long-term, large-scale dataset collected over the period of 1.5 years on a weekly basis over the University of Sydney campus and surrounds. It includes multiple sensor modalities and covers various environmental conditions. ROS compatible

Paper 📰

Oct 18th - Oct 24th, 2021

Others

ARHeadsetKit stars69 - Using $5 Google Cardboard to replicate Microsoft Hololens. Hosts the source code for research on scene color reconstruction stars18.

Jun 14th - Jun 20th, 2021

Libraries

pointcloudset - Python library for efficient analysis of large datasets of point clouds recorded over time.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars17

Apr 26th - May 2nd, 2021

Others

CloudCompare - CloudCompare is a free, cross-platform point cloud editor software.

GitHub repository :octocat:

Apr 5th - Apr 11th, 2021

Others

Semantic Segmentation Editor :octocat:stars1.3k - Point cloud and image semantic segmentation editor by Hitachi Automotive And Industry Laboratory, point cloud annotator / labeling.

3D Bounding Box Annotation Tool :octocat:stars356 - 3D BAT: A Semi-Automatic, Web-based 3D Annotation Toolbox for Full-Surround, Multi-Modal Data Streams, point cloud annotator / labeling.

Feb 1st - Feb 7th, 2021

Datasets

Cirrus dataset A public datatset from non-uniform distribution of LIDAR scanning patterns with emphasis on long range. In this dataset Luminar Hydra LIDAR is used. The dataset is available at the Volvo Cars Innovation Portal.

Paper 📰

Jan 18th - Jan 24th, 2021

Jan 4th - Jan 10th, 2021

Algorithms

Simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM and LIDAR-based odometry and or mapping LOAM

LIO-SAM 📰 - Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping.

Others

Bpy :octocat:stars667 - Point cloud importer/renderer/editor for Blender, Point Cloud visualizer.

Photogrammetry importer :octocat:stars480 - Blender addon to import reconstruction results of several libraries.

Dec 21st - Dec 27th, 2020

Others

Pcx :octocat:stars1k - Point cloud importer/renderer for Unity.

Nov 16th - Nov 22nd, 2020

Manufacturers

Velodyne - Velodyne is a mechanical and solid-state LIDAR manufacturer. The headquarter is in San Jose, California, USA.

SICK - Sensor and automation manufacturer, the headquarter is located in Waldkirch, Germany.

Innoviz - Innoviz technologies / specializes in solid-state LIDARs.

YouTube channel 🔴

Quanenergy - Quanenergy Systems / solid-state and mechanical LIDAR sensors / offers End-to-End solutions in Mapping, Industrial Automation, Transportation and Security. The headquarter is located in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

YouTube channel 🔴

Cepton - Cepton (Cepton Technologies, Inc.) / pioneers in frictionless, and mirrorless design, self-developed MMT (micro motion technology) lidar technology. The headquarter is located in San Jose, California, USA.

YouTube channel 🔴

Blickfeld - Blickfeld is a solid-state LIDAR manufacturer for autonomous mobility and IoT, based in München, Germany.

Neuvition - Neuvition is a solid-state LIDAR manufacturer based in Wujiang, China.

YouTube channel 🔴

Libraries

PyVista - 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit.

Others

Pointcloudprinter :octocat:stars143 - A tool to turn point cloud data from aerial lidar scans into solid meshes for 3D printing.

Nov 2nd - Nov 8th, 2020

Libraries

PyTorch3d - PyTorch3d is a library for deep learning with 3D data written and maintained by the Facebook AI Research Computer Vision Team.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars6k

Kaolin - Kaolin is a PyTorch Library for Accelerating 3D Deep Learning Research written by NVIDIA Technologies for game and application developers.

pyntcloud - Pyntcloud is a Python 3 library for working with 3D point clouds leveraging the power of the Python scientific stack.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars1.1k

Algorithms

Semantic segmentation

Study of LIDAR Semantic Segmentation - Scan-based Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds: An Experimental Study IV 2020.

Algorithms

Simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM and LIDAR-based odometry and or mapping LOAM

LOAM J. Zhang and S. Singh 🔴 - LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time.

LeGO-LOAM :octocat:stars1.6k - A lightweight and ground optimized lidar odometry and mapping (LeGO-LOAM) system for ROS compatible UGVs.

YouTube video 🔴

Oct 12th - Oct 18th, 2020

Algorithms

Semantic segmentation

PolarNet 📰 - An Improved Grid Representation for Online LiDAR Point Clouds Semantic Segmentation.

Frustum PointNets 📰 - Frustum PointNets for 3D Object Detection from RGB-D Data.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars1.4k

Sep 7th - Sep 13th, 2020

Libraries

PyTorch Geometric 📰 - A geometric deep learning extension library for PyTorch.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars14.7k

Algorithms

Basic matching algorithms

Iterative closest point 🔴 - The must-have algorithm for feature matching applications (ICP).

GitHub repository :octocat:stars77 - simpleICP C++ /Julia / Matlab / Octave / Python implementation.
GitHub repository :octocat:stars1.2k - libpointmatcher, a modular library implementing the ICP algorithm.
Paper 📰 - libpointmatcher: Comparing ICP variants on real-world data sets.

Normal distributions transform 🔴 - More recent massively-parallel approach to feature matching (NDT).

Algorithms

Semantic segmentation

RangeNet++ 📰 - Fast and Accurate LiDAR Sematnic Segmentation with fully convolutional network.

Algorithms

Simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM and LIDAR-based odometry and or mapping LOAM

SuMa++ 📰 - LiDAR-based Semantic SLAM.

OverlapNet 📰 - Loop Closing for LiDAR-based SLAM.

Simulators

CoppeliaSim - Cross-platform general-purpose robotic simulator (formerly known as V-REP).

YouTube channel 🔴

Conventions

Any list item with a Paper 📰 has a scientific paper or detailed description

Algorithms

Object detection and object tracking

Learning to Optimally Segment Point Clouds 📰 - By Peiyun Hu, David Held, and Deva Ramanan at Carnegie Mellon University. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020.

Leveraging Heteroscedastic Aleatoric Uncertainties for Robust Real-Time LiDAR 3D Object Detection 📰 - By Di Feng, Lars Rosenbaum, Fabian Timm, Klaus Dietmayer. 30th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2019.

YouTube video 🔴

What You See is What You Get: Exploiting Visibility for 3D Object Detection 📰 - By Peiyun Hu, Jason Ziglar, David Held, Deva Ramanan, 2019.

Aug 24th - Aug 30th, 2020

Libraries

Open3D library - Open3D library contanins 3D data processing and visualization algorithms. It is open-source and supports both C++ and Python.

Frameworks

Baidu Apollo - Apollo is a popular framework which accelerates the development, testing, and deployment of Autonomous Vehicles.

Manufacturers

Ouster - LIDAR manufacturer, specializing in digital-spinning LiDARs. Ouster is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

Hokuyo - Sensor and automation manufacturer, headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

YouTube channel 🔴

Pioneer - LIDAR manufacturer, specializing in MEMS mirror-based raster scanning LiDARs (3D-LiDAR). Pioneer is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

YouTube channel 🔴

Luminar - LIDAR manufacturer focusing on compact, auto-grade sensors. Luminar is headquartered Palo Alto, California, USA.

Hesai - Hesai Technology is a LIDAR manufacturer, founded in Shanghai, China.

Robosense - RoboSense (Suteng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.) is a LIDAR sensor, AI algorithm and IC chipset maufactuirer based in Shenzhen and Beijing (China).

Ibeo - Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH is an automotive industry / environmental detection laserscanner / LIDAR manufacturer, based in Hamburg, Germany.

YouTube channel 🔴

Jul 20th - Jul 26th, 2020

Datasets

Waymo Open Dataset - The dataset contains independently-generated labels for lidar and camera data, not simply projections.

UofTPed50 Dataset - University of Toronto, aUToronto's self-driving car dataset, which contains GPS/IMU, 3D LIDAR, and Monocular camera data. It can be used for 3D pedestrian detection.

Paper 📰

PandaSet Open Dataset - Public large-scale dataset for autonomous driving provided by Hesai & Scale. It enables researchers to study challenging urban driving situations using the full sensor suit of a real self-driving-car.

Jun 29th - Jul 5th, 2020

Datasets

CADC - Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions Dataset - Public large-scale dataset for autonomous driving in adverse weather conditions (snowy weather).

Paper 📰

May 25th - May 31st, 2020

Datasets

Semantic KITTI - Dataset for semantic and panoptic scene segmentation.

YouTube video 🔴

Manufacturers

Livox - LIDAR manufacturer.

May 4th - May 10th, 2020

Datasets

Ford Dataset - The dataset is time-stamped and contains raw data from all the sensors, calibration values, pose trajectory, ground truth pose, and 3D maps. The data is Robot Operating System (ROS) compatible.

Audi A2D2 Dataset - The dataset features 2D semantic segmentation, 3D point clouds, 3D bounding boxes, and vehicle bus data.

Paper 📰

Apr 20th - Apr 26th, 2020

Libraries

Point Cloud Library (PCL) - Popular highly parallel programming library, with numerous industrial and research use-cases.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars7.4k

Frameworks

Autoware - Popular framework in academic and research applications of autonomous vehicles.

Simulators

OSRF Gazebo - OGRE-based general-purpose robotic simulator, ROS/ROS2 compatible.

GitHub repository :octocat:stars914

CARLA - Unreal Engine based simulator for automotive applications. Compatible with Autoware, Baidu Apollo and ROS/ROS2.

LGSVL - Unity Engine based simulator for automotive applications. Compatible with Autoware, Baidu Apollo and ROS/ROS2.

Datasets

KITTI - Widespread public dataset, pirmarily focusing on computer vision applications, but also contains LIDAR point cloud.

Apr 13th - Apr 19th, 2020

Conventions

Any list item with a RedCircle 🔴 has YouTube videos or channel

Any list item with an OctoCat :octocat: has a GitHub repo or organization

Datasets

Lyft - Public dataset collected by a fleet of Ford Fusion vehicles equipped with LIDAR and camera.

Oxford RobotCar - The Oxford RobotCar Dataset contains over 100 repetitions of a consistent route through Oxford, UK, captured over a period of over a year.

EU Long-term Dataset - This dataset was collected with our robocar (in human driving mode of course), equipped up to eleven heterogeneous sensors, in the downtown (for long-term data) and a suburb (for roundabout data) of Montbéliard in France. The vehicle speed was limited to 50 km/h following the French traffic rules.

NuScenes - Public large-scale dataset for autonomous driving.

Paper 📰

Algorithms

Simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM and LIDAR-based odometry and or mapping LOAM

Cartographer :octocat:stars6k - Cartographer is ROS compatible system that provides real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 2D and 3D across multiple platforms and sensor configurations.

YouTube video 🔴

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