1.4.4 (2024-12-16)

New features: * Added Angle Limit Datapointsfilter, which filters points if they lie inside or outside of a given spherical wedge * Added support for binary PLY files IO

Major changes: * Min. Cmake version pumped to 3.15 * Removed dependency on boost filesystem * Python bindings compile with recent versions of pybind11

Other changes: * Updated Python GitHub action * Updated gitignore * Updated docs

1.4.3 (2024-06-28)

• Class to generate point cloud primitives
• Updated documentation
• Github actions for code API
• Function that lists all available Filter parameters

1.4.2 (2024-03-23)

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

1.4.1 (2024-03-19)

• Update package.xml version properly

1.4.0 (2023-12-15)

• fix: N2ST path resolution in dependencies-doc docker image
• refactor: move libpointmatcher build-system logic to norlab-build-system submodule
• fix: build-system side unstable compilation issue fix
• Fixes to CMake library management config generation
• New DataPoints filter for descriptor augmentation Enhancement
• Fix 2D transformation tests in debug
• Fix Transformations test build when using Eigen3.4
• Disable static boost linkage by default
• Update CompilationPython.md
• Update README.md
• Update readme_test.md for docker daemon test
• Create readme_test.md
• Updated the inner loop counter
• build-system minor mod
• libpointmatcher build-system
• Fix omega descriptor export
• Handle libnabo config mode
• Build python binding as regular package
• Fix time values after applying Sampling surface normal filter
• Add seed to Random sampling filter
• Add more details in pypointmatcher's installation docs
• Fixed compilation on Visual Studio 2022
• Fix 4DoF PointToPlane error minimizer crash
• Use the LOG_INFO_STREAM macro instead of std::cerr
• package format=3
• Create LICENSE file based on BSD license as per package.xml
• catkin not required for pure cmake packages
• Histogram<T>::computeStats() without sorting the Histogram
• Windows: Fix Narrowing conversion of seed in MaxPointCount
• Change storage ordering of the eigen vectors descriptors
• Apply the transformation to eigen vectors
• Fix the surface normals datapoints filter covariance matrix bug
• Fix weird behavior of MaxPointCountDataPointsFilter
• Bug fix in SurfaceNormalOutlierFilter
• Update CompilationWindows.md
• [Matches/OutlierFiltersImpl] Made convergence error messages more informative
• RemoveBeyond option for the maxQuantileDistance filter
• refactor: Drop support for yaml-cpp old API Enhancement
• Automaticaly find eigen3
• Strong Windows installation tutorial update
• Add libpointmatcher_INCLUDE_DIR to match with CGAL
• Add Boost_LIBRARIES to pointmatcher_LIBRARIES
• Add option to weight by reading pc
• Fixes for windows
• Fix windows doc
• Include iso646.h to add and, or, not macros
• Typo in PCL lib name
• Implemented an in-place method for transforming DataPoints objects
• The keyword "or" is not supported by windows compilers.
• Link against pthread
• [DataPoints] Added check to prevent unsigned int underflow in getEuclideanDim()
• [feature/spdf] Add SpectralDecompositionFilter (SpDF)
• Fixed the differences between examples and documentation (#409)
• Fix build of downstream packages.
• Reorganization of the compiling tutorials for ubuntu and macos
• Added reference for PointToPlaneWithCov ErrorMinimizer.
• [WIP] feature/python_module : Adding libpointmatcher's Python bindings (#222) Enhancement
• Feature/speedup random sampling filter
• Replaced the remaining raw pointers with shared pointers in Registrar.h
• Adding the new outlierfilters documentation to mkdocs .yml
• Outlier filter documentation added
• Fix/typo Fixes tutorials building failure
• Fixes tutorials formatting problem (#373)
• [WIP] Fix/typo : Tutorials improvements
• Fix out-of-bounds access
• Add missing force4DOF param to PointToPlaneWithCov
• Modernize cmake; make cmake compatible with git submoduling
• Feature/4 dof for point to plane minimizer
• Feature/geometry data points filter for master
• Get rid of the Visual C++ warnings
• Change matrix type
• Update link to documentation in readme
• Fix segfault happening in ICPSequence class
• Added missing include that made windows compilation fail.
• Change icp chain image to an svg
• Add support for Travis
• Fix typo
• Improve speed of Normal Space filtering
• Fix/normal space hashing
• Fix/clamp normals

1.3.1 (2019-03-04)

• 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.

1.3.0 (2018-10-26)

• Removed some boost utilities supported by c++11
• Replaced raw pointers by std smart pointers

1.2.4 (2018-10-15)

• Support of Eigen 3.3
• Introduced SurfaceNormalDataPointsFilter, OctreeGridDataPointsFilter and NormalSpaceDataPointsFilter
• A lot of bugs were fixed

1.2.3 (2015-05-15)

• Support including other versions of YAML in compilation units that also include the YAML version packed with libpointmatcher (PR #80)
• Changed immutability concept for SupportLabel to support MSVC 2012 (#78)
• Fixed build system related bugs (#79, #70, ..).
• updated build_map example, added better error message, added better information prints
• cleaned CMakeList and added missing dependencies for external projetcs
• avoid possibility of building dynamic library on MacOS
• updated Mac build instructions
• Tim3xx laser support on Simple Noise filter (#64)
• Modified default covariance return in PointToPlaneWithCovErrorMinimizer (#59)
• update usage text and retab
• Removed compilation warnings
• add unit test for ICPSequence
• added application of reference data points filters for ICPSequence objects (#56)
• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:ethz-asl/libpointmatcher
• fix problem with libnabo linking (#54)
• Adapted the code to handle 2D point clouds and decided to split the initial/icp/complete transformation matrices in 3 different files. It should be easier to post process the transformations.
• Changed matrix for matrices as output suffix
• Changed the ICP example (pmicp) to accept initial translation/rotation input and allow to output the transformation matrices
• CutBelowLevelDataPointsFilter (PR #48)
• split unit tests (PR #47)
• Delete roadmap.txt
• change year to 2014
• correct bug in DataPoints operator==
• add a method to remove features or descriptors
• add empty function for removing features and descriptors
• add functions to DataPoints avoiding error on rows and cols
• fill missing documentation
• resolve warning from unsigned to int in IO.cpp
• add extra empty line in utest
• add extra unit tests and resolve remaining bugs
• Refactored how to load PLY files
• Allow 2D descriptors (##45)
• Allow saving 2D descriptors coming from a 2Dmap, that are converted to 3D when writing to the file but needed after if we want to load the map as 2D.
• Contributors: Francis Colas, Francisco J Perez Grau, François Pomerleau, HannesSommer, Philipp Kruesi, Renaud Dube, Simon Lynen, chipironcin, pomerlef, smichaud, v01d

1.2.2 (2014-08-05)

• Yaml-cpp0.3 now built with libpointmatcher for compatibility with newer Ubuntu systems using yaml-cpp0.5

1.2.1

• 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