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I have a problem ragarding transferring a point cloud to a 2.5D metric grayscale image (gray value gives depth information). I start with a three channel image of 32bit floats with each pixel representing the three coordinates in mm (metric).

Halcon is the preferred library, but not necessary.

I hope that someone can help me.

Greetings from Stuttgart, Germany

Max

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  • $\begingroup$ What was the problem? $\endgroup$
    – D.J.Duff
    Commented Apr 3, 2015 at 5:27
  • $\begingroup$ I do not know how to transfer a point cloud to 2.5D metric grayscale image. (operators??) $\endgroup$
    – e_mka
    Commented Apr 7, 2015 at 14:08
  • $\begingroup$ Here's a good place to start: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection $\endgroup$
    – D.J.Duff
    Commented Apr 8, 2015 at 5:03
  • $\begingroup$ If I misunderstood the question, I'm sorry. $\endgroup$
    – D.J.Duff
    Commented Apr 8, 2015 at 5:03

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Your 3 channels already give you the 3D coordinates, and from that 3 images, you already know which pixels locations the 3D data are projected. So you don't need to do anything. If you like to get a depth image, just set: $$ depth(i,j) = z(i,j) $$ In Halcon, you just select the Z-channel using access_channel. If you desire a distance image, then: $$ distance(i,j) = \lVert (x,y,z)^T \rVert $$ The norm defines the distance metric you would like to use. Traditionally, I would say Euclidean $\|\cdot\|=\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}$. You could do this in any language by using operations like addition, multiplication and square roots.

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