pairwise_incremental_registration.cpp

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/* \author Radu Bogdan Rusu
 * adaptation Raphael Favier*/

#include <boost/make_shared.hpp>
#include <pcl/point_types.h>
#include <pcl/point_cloud.h>
#include <pcl/point_representation.h>

#include <pcl/io/pcd_io.h>

#include <pcl/filters/voxel_grid.h>
#include <pcl/filters/filter.h>

#include <pcl/features/normal_3d.h>

#include <pcl/registration/icp.h>
#include <pcl/registration/icp_nl.h>
#include <pcl/registration/transforms.h>

#include <pcl/visualization/pcl_visualizer.h>

using pcl::visualization::PointCloudColorHandlerGenericField;
using pcl::visualization::PointCloudColorHandlerCustom;

//convenient typedefs
typedef pcl::PointXYZ PointT;
typedef pcl::PointCloud<PointT> PointCloud;
typedef pcl::PointNormal PointNormalT;
typedef pcl::PointCloud<PointNormalT> PointCloudWithNormals;

// This is a tutorial so we can afford having global variables 
        //our visualizer
        pcl::visualization::PCLVisualizer *p;
        //its left and right viewports
        int vp_1, vp_2;

//convenient structure to handle our pointclouds
struct PCD
{
  PointCloud::Ptr cloud;
  std::string f_name;

  PCD() : cloud (new PointCloud) {};
};

struct PCDComparator
{
  bool operator () (const PCD& p1, const PCD& p2)
  {
    return (p1.f_name < p2.f_name);
  }
};


// Define a new point representation for < x, y, z, curvature >
class MyPointRepresentation : public pcl::PointRepresentation <PointNormalT>
{
  using pcl::PointRepresentation<PointNormalT>::nr_dimensions_;
public:
  MyPointRepresentation ()
  {
    // Define the number of dimensions
    nr_dimensions_ = 4;
  }

  // Override the copyToFloatArray method to define our feature vector
  virtual void copyToFloatArray (const PointNormalT &p, float * out) const
  {
    // < x, y, z, curvature >
    out[0] = p.x;
    out[1] = p.y;
    out[2] = p.z;
    out[3] = p.curvature;
  }
};



void showCloudsLeft(const PointCloud::Ptr cloud_target, const PointCloud::Ptr cloud_source)
{
  p->removePointCloud ("vp1_target");
  p->removePointCloud ("vp1_source");

  PointCloudColorHandlerCustom<PointT> tgt_h (cloud_target, 0, 255, 0);
  PointCloudColorHandlerCustom<PointT> src_h (cloud_source, 255, 0, 0);
  p->addPointCloud (cloud_target, tgt_h, "vp1_target", vp_1);
  p->addPointCloud (cloud_source, src_h, "vp1_source", vp_1);

  PCL_INFO ("Press q to begin the registration.\n");
  p-> spin();
}



void showCloudsRight(const PointCloudWithNormals::Ptr cloud_target, const PointCloudWithNormals::Ptr cloud_source)
{
  p->removePointCloud ("source");
  p->removePointCloud ("target");


  PointCloudColorHandlerGenericField<PointNormalT> tgt_color_handler (cloud_target, "curvature");
  if (!tgt_color_handler.isCapable ())
      PCL_WARN ("Cannot create curvature color handler!");

  PointCloudColorHandlerGenericField<PointNormalT> src_color_handler (cloud_source, "curvature");
  if (!src_color_handler.isCapable ())
      PCL_WARN ("Cannot create curvature color handler!");


  p->addPointCloud (cloud_target, tgt_color_handler, "target", vp_2);
  p->addPointCloud (cloud_source, src_color_handler, "source", vp_2);

  p->spinOnce();
}


void loadData (int argc, char **argv, std::vector<PCD, Eigen::aligned_allocator<PCD> > &models)
{
  std::string extension (".pcd");
  // Suppose the first argument is the actual test model
  for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++)
  {
    std::string fname = std::string (argv[i]);
    // Needs to be at least 5: .plot
    if (fname.size () <= extension.size ())
      continue;

    std::transform (fname.begin (), fname.end (), fname.begin (), (int(*)(int))tolower);

    //check that the argument is a pcd file
    if (fname.compare (fname.size () - extension.size (), extension.size (), extension) == 0)
    {
      // Load the cloud and saves it into the global list of models
      PCD m;
      m.f_name = argv[i];
      pcl::io::loadPCDFile (argv[i], *m.cloud);
      //remove NAN points from the cloud
      std::vector<int> indices;
      pcl::removeNaNFromPointCloud(*m.cloud,*m.cloud, indices);

      models.push_back (m);
    }
  }
}



void pairAlign (const PointCloud::Ptr cloud_src, const PointCloud::Ptr cloud_tgt, PointCloud::Ptr output, Eigen::Matrix4f &final_transform, bool downsample = false)
{
  //
  // Downsample for consistency and speed
  // \note enable this for large datasets
  PointCloud::Ptr src (new PointCloud);
  PointCloud::Ptr tgt (new PointCloud);
  pcl::VoxelGrid<PointT> grid;
  if (downsample)
  {
    grid.setLeafSize (0.05, 0.05, 0.05);
    grid.setInputCloud (cloud_src);
    grid.filter (*src);

    grid.setInputCloud (cloud_tgt);
    grid.filter (*tgt);
  }
  else
  {
    src = cloud_src;
    tgt = cloud_tgt;
  }


  // Compute surface normals and curvature
  PointCloudWithNormals::Ptr points_with_normals_src (new PointCloudWithNormals);
  PointCloudWithNormals::Ptr points_with_normals_tgt (new PointCloudWithNormals);

  pcl::NormalEstimation<PointT, PointNormalT> norm_est;
  pcl::search::KdTree<pcl::PointXYZ>::Ptr tree (new pcl::search::KdTree<pcl::PointXYZ> ());
  norm_est.setSearchMethod (tree);
  norm_est.setKSearch (30);
  
  norm_est.setInputCloud (src);
  norm_est.compute (*points_with_normals_src);
  pcl::copyPointCloud (*src, *points_with_normals_src);

  norm_est.setInputCloud (tgt);
  norm_est.compute (*points_with_normals_tgt);
  pcl::copyPointCloud (*tgt, *points_with_normals_tgt);

  //
  // Instantiate our custom point representation (defined above) ...
  MyPointRepresentation point_representation;
  // ... and weight the 'curvature' dimension so that it is balanced against x, y, and z
  float alpha[4] = {1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0};
  point_representation.setRescaleValues (alpha);

  //
  // Align
  pcl::IterativeClosestPointNonLinear<PointNormalT, PointNormalT> reg;
  reg.setTransformationEpsilon (1e-6);
  // Set the maximum distance between two correspondences (src<->tgt) to 10cm
  // Note: adjust this based on the size of your datasets
  reg.setMaxCorrespondenceDistance (0.1);  
  // Set the point representation
  reg.setPointRepresentation (boost::make_shared<const MyPointRepresentation> (point_representation));

  reg.setInputCloud (points_with_normals_src);
  reg.setInputTarget (points_with_normals_tgt);



  //
  // Run the same optimization in a loop and visualize the results
  Eigen::Matrix4f Ti = Eigen::Matrix4f::Identity (), prev, targetToSource;
  PointCloudWithNormals::Ptr reg_result = points_with_normals_src;
  reg.setMaximumIterations (2);
  for (int i = 0; i < 30; ++i)
  {
    PCL_INFO ("Iteration Nr. %d.\n", i);

    // save cloud for visualization purpose
    points_with_normals_src = reg_result;

    // Estimate
    reg.setInputCloud (points_with_normals_src);
    reg.align (*reg_result);

                //accumulate transformation between each Iteration
    Ti = reg.getFinalTransformation () * Ti;

                //if the difference between this transformation and the previous one
                //is smaller than the threshold, refine the process by reducing
                //the maximal correspondence distance
    if (fabs ((reg.getLastIncrementalTransformation () - prev).sum ()) < reg.getTransformationEpsilon ())
      reg.setMaxCorrespondenceDistance (reg.getMaxCorrespondenceDistance () - 0.001);
    
    prev = reg.getLastIncrementalTransformation ();

    // visualize current state
    showCloudsRight(points_with_normals_tgt, points_with_normals_src);
  }

        //
  // Get the transformation from target to source
  targetToSource = Ti.inverse();

  //
  // Transform target back in source frame
  pcl::transformPointCloud (*cloud_tgt, *output, targetToSource);

  p->removePointCloud ("source");
  p->removePointCloud ("target");

  PointCloudColorHandlerCustom<PointT> cloud_tgt_h (output, 0, 255, 0);
  PointCloudColorHandlerCustom<PointT> cloud_src_h (cloud_src, 255, 0, 0);
  p->addPointCloud (output, cloud_tgt_h, "target", vp_2);
  p->addPointCloud (cloud_src, cloud_src_h, "source", vp_2);

        PCL_INFO ("Press q to continue the registration.\n");
  p->spin ();

  p->removePointCloud ("source"); 
  p->removePointCloud ("target");

  //add the source to the transformed target
  *output += *cloud_src;
  
  final_transform = targetToSource;
 }


/* ---[ */
int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Load data
  std::vector<PCD, Eigen::aligned_allocator<PCD> > data;
  loadData (argc, argv, data);

  // Check user input
  if (data.empty ())
  {
    PCL_ERROR ("Syntax is: %s <source.pcd> <target.pcd> [*]", argv[0]);
    PCL_ERROR ("[*] - multiple files can be added. The registration results of (i, i+1) will be registered against (i+2), etc");
    return (-1);
  }
  PCL_INFO ("Loaded %d datasets.", (int)data.size ());
  
  // Create a PCLVisualizer object
  p = new pcl::visualization::PCLVisualizer (argc, argv, "Pairwise Incremental Registration example");
  p->createViewPort (0.0, 0, 0.5, 1.0, vp_1);
  p->createViewPort (0.5, 0, 1.0, 1.0, vp_2);

        PointCloud::Ptr result (new PointCloud), source, target;
  Eigen::Matrix4f GlobalTransform = Eigen::Matrix4f::Identity (), pairTransform;
  
  for (size_t i = 1; i < data.size (); ++i)
  {
    source = data[i-1].cloud;
    target = data[i].cloud;

    // Add visualization data
    showCloudsLeft(source, target);

    PointCloud::Ptr temp (new PointCloud);
    PCL_INFO ("Aligning %s (%d) with %s (%d).\n", data[i-1].f_name.c_str (), source->points.size (), data[i].f_name.c_str (), target->points.size ());
    pairAlign (source, target, temp, pairTransform, true);

    //transform current pair into the global transform
    pcl::transformPointCloud (*temp, *result, GlobalTransform);

    //update the global transform
    GlobalTransform = pairTransform * GlobalTransform;

                //save aligned pair, transformed into the first cloud's frame
    std::stringstream ss;
    ss << i << ".pcd";
    pcl::io::savePCDFile (ss.str (), *result, true);

  }
}
/* ]--- */