1.4.2

What's Changed

• Add dockerhub release logic and improve main readme by @RedLeader962 in #550
• Update .gitingore with auto-generated patterns for C++, Python, JetBrains IDEs ,and VSCode by @boxanm in #555
• build: add ubuntu jammy to the repository suported version by @RedLeader962 in #557
• fix: Change unit tests floating point type to double and add a precision argument to output streams by @boxanm in #558
• Update the minimum required Cmake version to 3.10.2 by @boxanm in #560
• fix: Issue 534 transformation tests failing on some platforms by @boxanm in #559
• Added orientation descriptor in RigidTransformation and SimilarityTransformation compute functions. by @simonpierredeschenes in #553
• Release 1.4.2 prep by @RedLeader962 in #562

Full Changelog: 1.4.1...1.4.2

1.4.1

What's Changed

• Release 1.4.1 by @clalancette in #561

New Contributors

• @clalancette made their first contribution in #561

Full Changelog: 1.4.0...1.4.1

1.4.0

Major changes:

• New build system
• C++17 support
• Python bindings
• 4 DOF Point-to-plane error minimizer
• Spectral Decomposition Datapoints Filter
• Add Descriptor Datapoints Filter
• Countless fixes and improvements, see the complete list below

Language, compilation, platforms and build system

• Added missing include that made windows compilation fail. by @simonpierredeschenes in #343
• Modernize cmake; make cmake compatible with git submoduling by @jlblancoc in #382
• Fix build of downstream packages. by @peci1 in #407
• The keyword "or" is not supported by windows compilers. by @kubelvla in #418
• Get rid of the Visual C++ warnings by @afabri in #355
• Automaticaly find eigen3 by @maximecharriere in #448
• Windows: Fix Narrowing conversion of seed in MaxPointCount by @maxGimeno in #470
• Build python binding as regular package by @KernelA in #506
• Handle libnabo config mode by @sloriot in #513
• libpointmatcher build-system by @RedLeader962 in #518
• build-system minor mod by @RedLeader962 in #519
• fix: build-system side unstable compilation issue fix [NMO-402] by @RedLeader962 in #539
• fix: N2ST path resolution in dependencies-doc docker image by @RedLeader962 in #541
• Fixes to CMake library management config generation by @boxanm in #538
• fix: refactor hardcoded build system path using environment variable and substitution by @RedLeader962 in #542
• refactor(release-prep): doc update and libpointmatcher-build-system logic refactoring to submodule by @RedLeader962 in #543
• feat: Move libpointmatcher build-system logic to norlab-build-system submodule (clean-up and polish) by @RedLeader962 in #545
• fix: Build system improvements and fixes by @RedLeader962 in #546
• Migrate to C++17 by @boxanm in #536
• feat: implement libpointmatcher turnkey install scripts for user who have cloned the repo by @RedLeader962 in #547
• Fixed compilation on Visual Studio 2022 by @soesau in #494
• Fixes for windows by @maxGimeno in #437

• catkin not required for pure cmake packages by @Timple in #482

• Link against pthread by @YoshuaNava in #417
• Disable static boost linkage by default by @KernelA in #530
• Add Boost_LIBRARIES to pointmatcher_LIBRARIES by @maxGimeno in #441
• Add libpointmatcher_INCLUDE_DIR to match with CGAL by @maximecharriere in #446

Error minimizers

• Change icp chain image to an svg by @PhiBabin in #340
• Feature/4 dof for point to plane minimizer by @kubelvla in #378
• Add missing force4DOF param to PointToPlaneWithCov by @bhavitp in #384
• Fix 4DoF PointToPlane error minimizer crash by @kaatrasa in #492
• RemoveBeyond option for the maxQuantileDistance filter by @dagata-mining in #452
• Add option to weight by reading pc by @hermannsblum in #439

Data point filters

• Fix/normal space hashing by @jsburklund in #327
• Improve speed of Normal Space filtering by @jsburklund in #328
• Fix/clamp normals by @jsburklund in #326
• [feature/spdf] Add SpectralDecompositionFilter (SpDF) by @MathLabu in #411
• [DataPoints] Added check to prevent unsigned int underflow in getEuclideanDim() by @YoshuaNava in #414
• Feature/speedup random sampling filter by @YoshuaNava in #396
• Fix weird behavior of MaxPointCountDataPointsFilter by @aguenette in #464
• Add seed to Random sampling filter by @boxanm in #501
• Fix time values after applying Sampling surface normal filter by @boxanm in #502
• New DataPoints filter for descriptor augmentation by @boxanm in #535
• Fix octree sampling by @boxanm in #540
• Fix the surface normals datapoints filter covariance matrix bug by @aguenette in #465
• Apply the transformation to eigen vectors by @aguenette in #467
• Change storage ordering of the eigen vectors descriptors by @aguenette in #468
• Bug fix in SurfaceNormalOutlierFilter by @cjamin in #457
• Updated the inner loop counter by @harsh-su in #521

Documentation

• Update link to documentation in readme by @PhiBabin in #350
• [WIP] Fix/typo : Tutorials improvements by @aguenette in #386
• Fixes tutorials formatting problem (#373) by @aguenette in #387
• Fix/typo Fixes tutorials building failure by @aguenette in #388
• Outlier filter documentation added by @nimisbert in #392
• Adding the new outlierfilters documentation to mkdocs .yml by @aguenette in #394
• Added reference for PointToPlaneWithCov ErrorMinimizer. by @simonpierredeschenes in #398
• Fixed the differences between examples and documentation (#409) by @aguenette in #410
• Reorganization of the compiling tutorials for ubuntu and macos by @aguenette in #400
• Strong Windows installation tutorial update by @maximecharriere in #447
• Add more details in pypointmatcher's installation docs by @IamPhytan in #495
• Update README.md by @pomerlef in #525
• Update CompilationPython.md by @boxanm in #527
• Create LICENSE file based on BSD license as per package.xml by @Timple in #485
• Update readme_test.md for docker daemon test by @RedLeader962 in #524
• Create readme_test.md by @RedLeader962 in #522
• Update CompilationWindows.md by @NattyBumppo in #456
• Fix windows doc by @maxGimeno in #436
• Typo in PCL lib name by @andre-nguyen in #422

Miscellaneous

• refactor: Drop support for yaml-cpp old API by @aguenette in #450
• [WIP] feature/python_module : Adding libpointmatcher's Python bindings (#222) by @aguenette in #397

• Fix typo by @haampie in #332

• Add support for Travis by @PhiBabin in #337

• Fix segfault happening in ICPSequence class by @simonpierredeschenes in #348

• Fix out-of-bounds access by @jlblancoc in #385

• Replaced the remaining raw pointers with shared pointers in Registrar.h by @aguenette in #395

• Change matrix type by @afabri in #354

• Feature/geometry data points filter for master by @kubelvla in #374

• Implemented an in-place method for transforming DataPoints objects by @YoshuaNava in https://github.com/norlab-ulaval/lib...

v1.3.1

• Added documentation for people using ROS.
• Increased libnabo minimal version to 1.0.7.
• Added interface to inform if maximum number of iterations was reached.
• Fixed portability issue of the FileLogger.
• Fixed unit tests on Windows.
• Fixed parameter-less modules having 'unknown' as class name.
• Updated Windows compilation tutorial.
• Fixed compilation problems on Windows.
• Fixed PointToPlan error residual.
• Changed DOI resolver link in documentation.
• Added validation for the input transformation matrix in ICP.cpp.
• Removed duplication of PointToPoint compute in PointToPointWithCov.
• Added the RemoveSensorBias filter.
• Splitted ErrorMinimizersImpl.cpp into multiple files.

v1.3.0

Removed some boost utilities supported by c++11 and replaced raw pointers by std smart pointers.

v1.2.4

New data filters were introduced, such as SurfaceNormalDataPointsFilter, OctreeGridDataPointsFilter and NormalSpaceDataPointsFilter. This release will work with Eigen3.3.

v1.2.3

This release will work with Eigen 3.2 but not Eigen 3.3. If you are on Ubuntu 16.04, it is recommended to use the branch master instead.

v1.2.1

Fixes in 1.2.1

• Yaml-cpp0.3 now included for compatibility with newer Ubuntu systems using yaml-cpp0.5
• Fixed bug with soft outlier weights in error minimization
• Fixed some issues for releasing into ROS ecosystem
• Contributors: François Pomerleau, Mike Bosse, Samuel Charreyron, Simon Lynen

v1.2.0

New Features for v1.2.0:

• Added a new data filter: VoxelGrid
• Added support for PCL (Point Cloud Library) data format: PCD
• Improved *.vtk legacy format to handle UNSTRUCTURED_GRID format
• New ErrorMinimizer producing covariance matrix
• Better user documentation and tutorials
• Avoids point cloud copies when filtering
• Added CMake support for find_package
• Added support for PLY (Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format) for ascii encoding
• Improved CSV file support with import/export of selected descriptors