The Point Cloud Library (PCL) -- http://pointclouds.org, is one of the
mentoring organizations accepted for the Google Summer Of Code 2011.
PCL is a large scale, BSD licensed, open project for 3D point cloud processing.
The PCL framework contains numerous state-of-the art algorithms including
filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction, registration, model
fitting and segmentation. These algorithms can be used, for example, to filter
outliers from noisy data, stitch 3D point clouds together to create 3D
panoramas, segment relevant parts of a scene, extract keypoints and compute
descriptors to recognize objects in the world based on their geometric
appearance, and create surfaces from point clouds and visualize them -- to name
a few. PCL contains an OpenNI interface, and is thus able to process data
coming from the recently released Microsoft Kinect and PrimeSense PSDK 3D
sensors.
We are searching for talented students, with good C++ programming background,
and a passion for 3D processing. Please check our proposed list of projects at
http://pointclouds.org/gsoc2011/ideas.html, and submit your applications to
http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/pcl until April 8th.
The work that you will be doing will be released as open source into the next
release of PCL, and you will be rewarded with $5000 from Google.
PCL is supported by an international community and includes developers and/or
financial sponsors from the following instutions: AIST, UC Berkeley, University
of Bonn, University of British Columbia, ETH Zurich, University of Freiburg,
Intel Research Seattle, LAAS/CNRS, MIT, NVidia, University of Osnabrueck,
Stanford University, TU Munich, University of Tokyo, Willow Garage, TU Wien,
and Washington University in St. Louis.
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Manuel Kuhn
Technische Universität Wien
Institut für Automatisierungs- und Regelungstechnik
Gußhausstraße 27-29 / E376 | DVR: 0005886
A-1040 Wien
Tel: + 43 (0) 1 58801- 376 616
Fax: + 43 (0) 1 58801- 37697